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Last Updated: October 23, 2012 02:32pm ET

Related Secures Financing For Hudson Yards Skyscraper

By Jacqueline Hlavenka | New York


NEW YORK CITY-According to unnamed sources in the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg, the developer responsible for the transformation of the Far West Side has tentative commitments for loans for its 1.7 million-square-foot tower here.

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Related Cos.
Architects Skidmore Owings & Merrill; Thomas Phifer & Partners; SHoP Architects and Diller Scofidio + Renfro; Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa; Handel Architects

Current design renderings (as of November 2012):

At night:

Originally Posted by Þróndeimr

A nice new rendering published by MIR a couple of hours ago!

Illustration by MIR


Illustration by MIR

Large rendering

Originally Posted by Hudson11

both pics by NYguy on pbase

renderings from https://www.visualhouse.co.uk/

Originally Posted by RobertWalpole

image hosted on flickr




D-Tower up close










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Scale models:

Originally Posted by RobertWalpole

image hosted on flickr

Earlier renders:

nyguy on PBase

Originally Posted by Otie

For those interested the company that made the CGI for Related is visualhouse, the same studio that made Kingdom Tower's animation.

Originally Posted by yankeesfan1000

Some more renders, from https://www.visualhouse.co.uk/featproject/305:

Originally Posted by Hudson11

from the brochure http://www.related.com/HudsonYards/i...20Brochure.pdf










the bottom pics are clearly older renderings, but going by this, the mixed use tower is taller than the coach tower was before it's height reduction

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The site of the project (as of March 2012):


http://www.nydailynews.com/life-styl...icle-1.1212797


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Older renderings:




Extell Development Company
Architect Steven Holl Architects




Tishman Speyer Properties and Morgan Stanley
Architects Helmut Jahn and Peter Walker




Related Companies
Architects Kohn Pedersen Fox, Robert A.M. Stern, Arquitectonica
Financial Partner Goldman Sachs




Durst Organization and Vornado Realty Trust
Architects FXFowle and Pelli Clarke Pelli


















First design:


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http://inhabitat.com/nyc/first-leed-...-associates-6/

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[Hudson11]

I always liked Vornado and Durst's proposal for it's landmark Pelli tower. Undoubtedly there would have been other supertalls along with it.
I love what we have now with Related at the helm though, and the future is bright.

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Hudson Yards Breaks Ground

December 5 2012

Mayor Bloomberg (center) is flanked by Related Companies' Chairman Stephen Ross (left) and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn during a groundbreaking ceremony for the Hudson Yards at 30th St. between 10th and 11th Aves. on Tuesday.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/...#ixzz2LoOTKgn3

http://inhabitat.com/nyc/first-leed-...-associates-8/


http://inhabitat.com/nyc/first-leed-...associates-12/


http://inhabitat.com/nyc/first-leed-...associates-13/


http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/26796


http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/50991


http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/50991


http://inhabitat.com/nyc/first-leed-...-associates-2/


http://inhabitat.com/nyc/first-leed-...-associates-1/


http://www.businessinsider.com/hudso...g-2012-12?op=1


http://www.hudsonyardsnewyork.com/shopping-dining


http://ny.curbed.com/tags/hudson-yards


http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/...ated-companies


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http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/...g/hudson-yards

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A New Neighborhood, from the Ground Up


http://www.tocci.com/2013/01/hudson-yards/

February 6, 2013.

The recent groundbreaking of the Hudson Yards project will usher in five years of construction that will extend the High Line to West 34th Street, build platforms over the rail yards, construct massive commercial and residential high-rise towers and provide public spaces and a K-8 school for new residents.

Here's the timeline as it stands now:

May 2010: Oxford Properties Group partners with Related, signs contract with MTA for development right of 13 million square feet at Hudson Yards


Dec. 4, 2012: Break ground on Hudson yards

Jan. 14, 2013: Break ground on Manhattan West — building platform

August 2013: Superstructure of South Tower completed

2014: Platform over rail yards to be completed


Courtesy of Related Companies and Oxford Properties

2014: Groundbreaking on Tower D, 80/20 housing

2014: Construction on Hudson Yards North Tower to begin


Image by James Corner Field Operations / Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Courtesy Friends of the High Line

2014: High Line Section 2 to 34th Street, including interim walkway


Courtesy of Related Companies and Oxford Properties

2015: Hudson Yards South Tower completed

2016: Manhattan West open to tenants

2016: Tower D completed, with 80/20 affordable housing

2017: Culture Shed public area to be completed

2016: Entire Eastern Rail Yards completed

2017: Western Yards construction begins


Courtesy of Related Companies and Oxford Properties

2024: Entire Hudson Yards project completed

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the Coach tower will look MASSIVE standing alone above the railyards before anything else is completed.

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Traffic and congestion is already a living hell around the tunnel entrance there, it would get worse during construction, and even worse once the thousand of new residents and office workers move in...
But the towers look stunning

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Get ready for this:

Related, Amtrak To Construct Box For Rail Tunnel Between Manhattan And NJ


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Related Companies and Amtrak have agreed to begin work on a new rail tunnel between New Jersey and Manhattan, the New York Post reported.

Construction on the 800-foot-long “box tunnel” will begin this summer right under Related’s Hudson Yards megaproject and is expected to cost between $120 and $150 million, primarily funded by federal dollars. Sen. Chuck Schumer, who championed the deal, told the Post that it marked “a red-letter day for the future of New York-New Jersey mass transit.” He recognized the agreement as a commitment to a new tunnel for the first time since New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie nixed plans for a $15 billion four-track project in 2010.

The box tunnel cannot be used for train transportation at first; instead, it will serve as a shell for the Manhattan end of the future Hudson tunnel that Amtrak intends to building in the future, as well as for the proposed Moynihan Station.

The box will hold the space for a rail link between the future Hudson tunnel and existing tracks at Penn Station — and for the proposed Moynihan Station if it’s ever built. The construction of the box tunnel was pressing because it could not be carried out once Related had built a deck over the rail yard.

Hudson Yards has been pushing hard to woo corporate tenants and is building a 900-foot, 1.7 million-square-foot office tower that will be the headquarters of Coach.

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New Renders Of The Hudson Yards Culture Shed Coming In 2017

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Wonderful towers... Unbeliable!

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Big 3 eyeing Hudson Yards

Time Warner, Citibank and Ralph Lauren Polo could be the next big companies to move to mammoth new Hudson Yards on the Far West Side. All three have had talks with Hudson Yards developer Related Cos. about taking space in the 26-acre site’s second planned skyscraper, sources said.

Related chief Stephen Ross is furiously courting tenants for the project’s North Tower after inking deals yesterday with three major companies for the South Tower — Coach Inc., L’Oréal and tech firm SAP. They will occupy 80 percent of the 47-story building, scheduled to open in 2015. The North Tower will be much bigger — 80 stories and 1,337 feet tall, which is nearly as tall as 1 World Trade Center not including its spire. The South Tower has started construction at 10th Avenue and 31st Street on Hudson Yards’ eastern edge. The North Tower will go up at 10th and 33rd Street once tenants are signed up.

The second cloudbuster would firmly establish Related’s Hudson Yards — to be built above the vast open rail yard between 10th and 12th avenues — as the city’s hottest commercial-development district. It would also cement Mayor Bloomberg’s legacy for kick-starting the birth of a vast new neighborhood on Manhattan’s Far West Side, a dream that started with his failed quest to build an Olympics stadium.

Related’s talks with possible tenants for the North Tower were in the earliest stages. At least one, Citibank, recently seemed to have dropped the idea and was looking elsewhere, sources said. But, “The finalized deals with Coach and the other tenants at the South Tower change everything,” a real-estate insider said. “Even though everyone knew they were happening, the real-estate mind knows a deal isn’t closed until it closes. The South Tower deals swept away the last bit of uncertainty about Hudson Yards. Related has momentum now.”

The plan for Coach to move its headquarters there was first heralded by Mayor Bloomberg and others at a photo-op on Nov. 1, 2011.

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All photos: http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/0...dson_yards.php

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Tip of the Iceberg? Silverstein Wants More Housing at Hudson Yards

By Stephen Jacob Smith 4/23

With the 7 train extension set to see its first train at 34th Street and 11th Avenue next June, developers are rushing to line up financing and break ground on millions of square feet in new projects. The New York Times took a look over the weekend at the progress at Hudson Yards, but they buried some news deep within the story: at least one landowner—Silverstein Properties, which owns a 90,000-square foot site at 41st Street and 11th Avenue—wants zoning rules changed to allow it to build more housing and less office space.

For an area with poor transit links, the desire to shift from commercial to residential is not surprising. Though there will be a new subway station at 34th Street and 11th Avenue, successful office locations generally require not only transit, but redundant transit. There are seven different subway stations, for example, along 42nd Street between Fifth and Eighth Avenues. Grand Central has three plus a regional rail terminal, and the Plaza District has around half a dozen, depending on how you define the ritzy submarket. Hudson Yards, on the other hand, will have just one two-track subway, with Penn Station and the Eighth Avenue subway a few long avenue blocks away, at best. Commuters from Queens may have it easy, but there will be no one-seat subway rides from Brooklyn or any of Manhattan’s residential neighborhoods.

While the desirability of housing in New York is also driven by proximity to transit, it relies mainly on access to midtown. Office tenants, by contrast, need transit links to the outer boroughs—a much taller order for out-of-the-way Hudson Yards. And the market seems to be bearing this out: developers are in some stage of building or have already delivered 10,000 of the total 20,000 apartments that the city has planned for Hudson Yards since 2005, according to the Times, while only one office building has broken ground—Related’s tower at 10th Avenue and West 31st Street, where they signed Coach, L’Oreal and SAP as tenants. Extell’s building on 11th Avenue is on hold for want of an anchor tenant, and Moinian’s mixed-use building doesn’t have one either.


Office developers at Hudson Yards get much more space than those who build housing.


And while developers in today’s market will throw up as many apartments as they can, builders have to work much harder to woo office tenants. The city has incentivized office space at Hudson Yards through tax breaks and more liberal zoning allowances, but office space at the World Trade Center is even more subsidized and has better transit access. Developers at Hudson Yards are understandably reluctant to throw up new towers while those in more natural locations—say, Vornado at 15 Penn Plaza—are shelving their plans.

More office towers will eventually join Related’s first in the lower 30s between Penn Station and the new 7 stop on 11th Avenue, with Related aggressively courting tenants for its second, larger building. But it remains to be seen if there will be demand for the string of commercial skyscrapers that the city envisioned rising along Hudson Boulevard, on sites like Silverstein’s which lacks the redeeming proximity to Penn Station.

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Hudson Yards Exhibit Shows Off New Models of Upcoming Neighborhood

NEW YORK CITY — The city's newest neighborhood hasn't even been built yet, but it's already a museum piece.

A new exhibit showing off the Hudson Yards development will open in May at the Center for Architecture's Breakthrough Space Gallery at 536 LaGuardia Pl., displaying new models and plans of the engineering and architectural marvels needed to build the 26-acre project — even though that project has barely begun.

The two-month exhibition, Design (in) The New Heart of New York, will show off a model of the project, which requires developers at the Related Companies and Oxford Properties to build a giant platform over the West Side Rail Yards before erecting the bulk of the giant skyscrapers planned for the site. Work in the first building started in December.

Elements of the planning, design, engineering and architecture of the massive project will be on display to the public, including work done by the high-profile architects at Diller Scofidio + Renfro, which designed one of the project's soaring towers, and Kohn Pederson Fox Associates, who designed the future home of Coach, L'Oreal USA and German tech company SAP.

Those architects, planners, and civic leaders will participate in a regular speaker series at the exhibition, bringing in some of the people who helped push the project forward before audiences.

The completed project will be massive: with 13 million square feet of commercial space, 750,000 square feet of retails, a new park, 5,000 new apartments, a school, and a luxury hotel. The area will be connected to the city by an expanded 7 Train, set to be completed in 2014.

The exhibition kicks off on May 1, with a special set of guided tours by Hudson Yards architects and Related planner Michael Samuelian for Open House New York members on May 4.

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Exhibit, Speakers Detail the Grand Design of Hudson Yards

May 1, 2013.



BY SCOTT STIFFLER | “This is going to be the Gold Coast for the city,” said Mayor Michael Bloomberg at a December 4, 2012 public unveiling of the Hudson Yards development — where he also dubbed it “Manhattan’s final frontier” (and has since called it New York City’s “Next Great Neighborhood”).

Such grand and confident predictions, in this case at least, are hardly the stuff of hyperbole. When complete, the 26-acre site will accommodate over 13 million square feet — including more than 6 million square feet of commercial space, 750,000 square feet of destination retail space, cinemas, specialty restaurants, markets and bars, with 14 acres of new open spaces and parks. It will also be home to approximately 5,000 residences, a new school and a luxury hotel. The 1.7 million square foot South Tower (currently under construction, slated to open in 2015) will be the world headquarters of Coach, Inc.



If those raw numbers seem difficult to fathom, imagine being tasked with the challenge of coming up with a plan of action to take Hudson Yards from a hole in the ground to a gleaming forest of towering structures. Others have, of course — and now they’re pulling the curtain back. “Design(in) The New Heart of New York” is a two-month exhibit revealing the art behind the architecture.

An eight-week speaker series will complement the exhibit, offering visitors the chance to hear directly from (and interact with) architects, designers, civic leaders, developers and city partners. Included in the speaker series:

On May 16, prominent architectural writer Joseph Giovannini and Bill Pedersen, founding design partner of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF), will discuss the evolution of the urban, high-rise commercial office building (at Hudson Yards and around the world). On May 30, David Childs, FAIA, Consulting Design Partner at Skidmore Owings & Merrill, talks about the complexities of designing a mixed-use building in a mixed-use development.

On June 11, Holly Leicht, Executive Director of New Yorkers for Parks, joins Matthew Johnson, Senior Associate at Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Lisa Switkin, Associate Partner at James Corner Field Operations, Peter Mullan, Vice President for Planning & Design at Friends of the High Line and Matthew Urbanski, Principal at Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates for a discussion about the evolution of parks on Manhattan’s west side (with a focus on the creation of the High Line and Hudson River Park). The lecture series concludes on June 25, when Elizabeth Diller, Principal at Diller Scofidio + Renfro, joins David Rockwell, President of the Rockwell Group, to discuss the conceptual and technical development of the 72-story Hudson Yards residential tower.



The exhibit, which runs from May 1 through June 30 at the American Institute of Architects, New York Center for Architecture (536 LaGuardia Place, btw. Bleecker St. & W. 3rd St.), will feature never-before-seen architecture and design elements. To commemorate the opening of the exhibit, Open House New York will host two guided tours of the exhibit on Saturday, May 4. The first 5,000 visitors to the exhibit (and other Hudson Yards AIA events) will receive a “Build our Own Hudson Yards” postcard set designed by world-renowned paper engineer Keisuke Saka. For more information, visit hudsonyardsnewyork.com, aiany.org and nycdesign.com.

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Office developers compete for anchor tenants on Manhattan’s western edge

Only a few times in modern Manhattan history has an entirely new office district sprung up all at once. In the 1930s, there was Rockefeller Center; the 1970s saw the World Trade Center complex; and today, developers are planning nearly 15 million square feet of new office space in the Hudson Yards area in the 30s on the Far West Side.

The new projects expected to rise over the next decade include the Related Companies’ North and South towers at Hudson Yards, Extell Development’s One Hudson Yards, Brookfield Office Properties’ Manhattan West and Moinian’s 3 Hudson Boulevard, as well as Sherwood Equities’ 447 10th Avenue and Alloy Development’s 450 Hudson Park Boulevard.

But before starting construction on these new towers, developers must first land an anchor tenant willing to take at least 400,000 square feet of space. With only a finite number of large potential renters, the competition for office tenants is heating up, as some of the city’s top commercial leasing brokers and developers battle each other with slick marketing campaigns and — of course — behind-the-scenes jabs at rival projects.

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There are currently 10 to 20 companies said to be on the hunt for large chunks of Manhattan office space, brokers said. These include media companies Time Warner, Sony, CBS and News Corp.; law firms White & Case and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; advertising firm GroupM; financial giant Credit Suisse; and fashion house Ralph Lauren. Brokers for the new Hudson Yards–area towers are fighting to lure these tenants, but their efforts could be in vain if companies decide to stay in their current locations, or move to existing office towers instead. Despite these challenges, Hudson Yards so far appears to be beating the odds. Last month, Related snagged two more tenants for the South Tower: French cosmetics maker L’Oreal and software firm SAP.

Developers in the area are also competing for tax benefits. A 15-year, 40 percent property tax reduction is being offered for the first 5 million square feet of office space to be built west of 10th Avenue. Related said last month that it will apply for the tax break for the South Tower, which would leave about 3.3 million square feet up for grabs. After the first 5 million, the tax break drops to 25 percent.

But some developers may hold off on construction until the neighborhood is more established and competition wanes. “We are waiting until rents get really attractive before we build,” said Ryan Nelson, senior vice president at Sherwood Equities. “Truthfully, it will probably be the next [construction] cycle.” For the time being, sources said asking rents for most of the new towers range from $80 to $90 per square foot.

This month, The Real Deal took an in-depth look at the new towers planned for the Far West Side, and how they’re faring in the race to nab tenants.

North and South Tower

Size: North Tower, 2.4 million sq. ft.; South Tower, 1.7 million sq.

Expected delivery: South Tower, 2016; North Tower, 2018

In the most highly anticipated project on the Far West Side, Related and Oxford Properties have teamed up on a $15 billion, 26-acre Hudson Yards mixed-used project. Last month, Related made major headway on the project when it inked a 99-year, $1 billion lease for the eastern portion of the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s rail yards, which stretch from 30th to 33rd streets and from 10th to 11th avenues.

Construction started in December on the South Tower, which is located at 501 West 30th Street and is the first building planned for the parcel. It took more than three years to lure Coach, which ultimately purchased a 740,000-square-foot commercial condo from Related. (As part of the deal, Related agreed to acquire Coach’s building a block north at 516 West 34th Street.) Now, the South Tower is more than 80 percent leased (including expansion options), with L’Oreal in contract to occupy 402,000 square feet and SAP having signed a lease for 115,000 square feet.

Related will have to do it all over again with its second, larger building, the North Tower. Adding to the challenge is that the North Tower, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, will rise on an 8.6-acre platform covering active Long Island Rail Road tracks. (Construction on the $750 million platform will also provide a foundation for several other buildings.)

Competing brokers who asked not to be identified said potential tenants might have a hard time imagining the long-discussed platform being constructed any time soon. But Related’s Cross said construction on the platform will start in January. That would allow for delivery of the building in 2018, as long as an anchor tenant is in place, he said.

As a selling point, Related is highlighting the large footprint of the North Tower, which financial firms could use for trading floors. Plus, the skyscraper will be adjacent to a planned 500,000-square-foot retail building, which Related hopes will allay tenants’ concerns about being isolated on the Far West Side with few food and shopping options. “We are part of a mixed-use project,” Cross said, “so you don’t have to think about an in-house cafeteria [like] you might in other projects.”

To sweeten the pot, Related is also offering to swap properties or sell portions of the building as commercial condos, as it did with Coach. Related has also offered that the first companies that sign on for space will get in “at cost.” Cross pegged the approximate asking rent for the North Tower at $90 per square foot and the price for a condo sale at between $900 and $1,100 per foot, for a hypothetical 1 million square feet.

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