Related Companies and Oxford Properties Break Ground on New York’s Hudson Yards
A five-floor retail center joins the two towers, housing 750,000 square-feet filled with shops, cinemas, restaurants, and bars; elsewhere, the complex will include a luxury hotel and open-air cafes.
After the somewhat unexpected blockbuster success of the
High Line
, things are looking up for the west side of Manhattan—and developers are looking up, too. Last week,
Related Companies
and
Oxford Properties Group
broke ground on the 26-acre
Hudson Yards
project, the largest private development in New York City since
Rockefeller Center
.
“We are proud to be working with some of the best architects not only in New York, but in the world,” says Joanna Rose, Related’s vice president of corporate communications. These include the 1.7-million-square-foot South Tower, which was designed by
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
, “who bring tremendous expertise in iconic commercial towers around the world,” says Rose. The anticipated
LEED Gold
tower will house the world headquarters of luxury goods company
Coach
Inc., and will link to a 2.4-million-square-foot North Tower via a retail complex, in which restaurateur Danny Meyer is eyeing a number of the spaces.
The Hudson Yards will include two towers, both designed by KPFA, and will be serviced by an extend 7 subway line, along with ferries along the Hudson River.
A non-profit called the Culture Shed will join the shops and restaurants—not to mention the Chelsea art district and the forthcoming new
Whitney Museum
—with multiple floors of gallery and performance space. The facility was designed by
Diller Scofido + Renfro
, and
David Rockwell
, who Rose says, “has a long history with Related, from
MiMA
on 42nd Street to
The Cosmopolitan
resort and casino in Las Vegas.”
Plans are underway to ensure that visitors to the Hudson Yards will be right at home, with 5000 residential units and a new public school added to the area. And all 13 million square feet of the project will integrate with that smash hit High Line via the new Hudson Park and Boulevard, a 4-acre thoroughfare incorporated a series of parks and public plazas along the west side of the island.
Related Companies is well known for their work on the 2.8-million-square-foot
Time Warner Center
, and partnered with the global platform
Oxford Properties Group
in 2010 to develop the Hudson Yards.
The High Line will terminate near the Hudson Yard’s South Tower, in which Coach has purchased nearly 740,000 square feet for its world headquarters.
