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Taken from the Hudson Yards thread:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...googlenews_wsj Work Set on West Side Rail Yard http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/i...1215211239.jpg Development firm Related Cos. is awarding a contract to demolish a 60,000-square-foot building as part of work on the West Side rail yards, above. By ELIOT BROWN December 16, 2010 Quote:
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awesome!!!!! :D
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http://www.hydc.org/html/project/mta-rail.shtml
Eastern Rail Yard The eastern portion of the rail yard is an approximately 13-acre site located between West 30th and West 33rd Streets from 10th to 11th Avenues. The ERY was rezoned in January 2005 to accommodate approximately 6.6 million gross square feet of mixed-use development, including office, residential, hotel, retail, cultural and parking facilities, and public open space. The zoning controls for the site require approximately 7 acres of public open space, including a significant public plaza. Additionally, it is anticipated that development of the ERY will include a major new cultural facility. The High Line connects to the southern edge of the site. Western Rail Yard The western portion of the rail yard is an approximately 13 acre site located between West 30th and West 33rd Streets from 11th to 12th Avenues. The WRY was rezoned in December 2009 to accommodate approximately 6 million gross square feet of mixed-use development, including office, residential, hotel, retail, cultural and parking facilities, and public open space. The developer has also made a commitment to build up a minimum of 265 permanently affordable rental units on the WRY, and an additional minimum of 166 permanently affordable units on either the WRY or ERY, in either rental or condominium buildings, for a total of 431 permanently affordable units. The High Line connects to the southern and western edges of the WRY. The future development of both the Eastern and Western Rail Yards will require the construction of a platform over the active LIRR operations. http://www.bluemelon.com/photo/18602/1041511.jpg |
Closer overall look at the site plan being developed by Related:
http://www.bluemelon.com/photo/18602/1041512.jpg I believe the first tower to be site labeled EC1 http://www.bluemelon.com/photo/18602/1041513.jpg |
It was reported a few weeks ago that the New York-based, handbag/shoe maker, Coach, is negotiating with Related for 600,000 sf of space in a new tower at the Hudson Yards.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/busines...8I6Eta9S92mOmK Related woos Coach Related eyes Coach bags November 30, 2010 Steve Cuozzo Stephen M. Ross's Related Cos. has a leathery catch on the line for its planned Hudson Yards development project -- New York-based luxury goods maker Coach, Inc. Sources told us booming Coach is prowling for up to 600,000 square feet of office space on the West Side for a new corporate home. "Coach has been exchanging paper" with Related regarding Hudson Yards as well as with other landlords in the area, the sources said. Publicly-traded Coach was founded here in 1941. Its leather bags, accessories and other products are sold at 400 stores in the US and Canada, including eight in Manhattan. But few shoppers know that Coach is also a big office-space user. The company owns its 265,000-square-foot headquarters building at 516 W. 34th St., which it once used for manufacturing and where it still maintains a small factory to produce samples. It also has a few hundred thousand square feet at 450 W. 33rd St. and at a smaller building on 34th Street. "Now, they've outgrown their premises," a source explained. There's no letter of intent for Hudson Yards, at least not yet. But a source described the Related talks as "still a work in progress but very serious." Financially strong Coach currently has around $1 billion in cash on its balance sheet to play with. The 26-acre Hudson Yards site bounded by 10th and 12th avenues between West 30th-33rd Streets -- most of it above the West Side rail yard -- is to be developed by Related and OMERS, the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System. Last May, Related signed a deal with the MTA to lease the site for 99 years, with the partners putting in a $21.75 million deposit. The project is eventually to include 21 million square feet of development. The master plan calls for three corporate headquarters sites, 5,000 apartments in nine buildings, "destination" retail, a luxury hotel, a new public school, cultural facilities and 12 acres of public open space. It was understood last night that Coach and Related weren't focused only on one of the office sites, but were exploring "options" at all three. The MTA/Related deal is contingent on several economic-climate yardsticks. As is typical of such public-private arrangements, it's full of escape clauses and trap doors allowing either side a way out. Moreover, Related must first build a platform over the tracks. But Related has said previously that with a tenant, work could start as early as 2012. And, if history proves anything, nothing can get a huge project off the ground -- and make all the issues go away -- like a tenant commitment. Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/busines...#ixzz18HynD1Yt |
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Meanwhile, here's the "illustrative" rendering of the railyards development. It can be misleading, because the buildings actually haven't been designed yet.
But what it does is give a window into how the development is planned to be built out. http://www.bluemelon.com/photo/18602/1041863.jpg However, the buildings shown are on the lower end of the spectrum, not a true indication of the potential height of the towers. For that, I've taken the potential numbers from the EIS of the western yards (I don't have the eastern yards in front of me) to give a better representation of potential heights. http://www.bluemelon.com/photo/18602/1041864.jpg And here's the rendering with the location of the first office tower to be built marked, which will be on the eastern yards. http://www.bluemelon.com/photo/18602/1041865.jpg |
Sweet development. I wish we had that here in T.O. I especially like those two neo-Deco towers in the front and the modernist slab to their right. The glass towers? Not so much.
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From that last rendering it shows how this will be a city within a city.
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I hope they would design a 2000ft supertall as a signature tower for the Hudson Yards Project.
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It would have been nice to have a distinctive supertall buuilt there that would break through the skyline, Oh well.
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I'm not hoping for a 2000 foot tall building, but something with a little more vision then this. At least a "signature office tower." The ones proposed now are uninspiring and just plain dull. The residential buildings look fine to me, and I'm glad they differ (at least conceptually).
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Practicality is more important to the developer and tenant rather than building a trophy.
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So many towers it's difficult to keep track of it all :)
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What's the giant turd pyramid building that I think MTA has to do with as well as the NYP if I'm not mistaken? Is there no plan to redevelop this building? Has to be one of the worst structures in all of Manhattan.
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A few years ago, the previous owners (Monday Properties) floated a couple of designs that included a massive tower above the existing structure. |
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