Posted November 30, 201113 yr development news around the westside railyards/javits convention center at the yet-to-be developed northernmost end of the highline park: From Ashes of Olympic Bid, a Future Rises for the Far West Side An Olympic stadium never rose over Hudson Yards, but several towers have been built nearby. A developer has plans for 12 commercial and residential towers, a park and a cultural center over the rail yards south of 33rd Street. By CHARLES V. BAGLI Published: November 27, 2011 Late in his first term, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg suffered a stinging defeat when, after an extensive planning and public relations effort, New York City lost its bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympics. Now, though, a vibrant neighborhood is rising in the area where the Olympic stadium and complex would have stood on the Far West Side of Manhattan. As a result, officials, developers and urban planners are embracing an unlikely notion: the Olympic bid’s defeat may have been one of the best things to happen for the city’s growth in recent memory. The Bloomberg administration repurposed many elements of the bid to create Hudson Yards, the commercial and residential district taking shape west of Eighth Avenue, a once-desolate area of factories, lofts and parking lots between 30th and 43rd Streets. Fifteen sleek residential towers have sprung up since 2005, the year that the Olympic bid was rejected, and a dozen hotels have muscled their way onto these blocks. This month, one of the city’s biggest developers, the Related Companies, announced tentative plans to erect a 51-story office tower on the spot where the Olympic stadium would have stood, with Coach, the luxury retailer, as the anchor tenant. more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/28/nyregion/on-far-west-side-bloombergs-failed-olympic-plan-spurs-development.html?pagewanted=all
December 4, 201212 yr the $15B Hudson yards mega project has its official groundbreaking ceremony today -- lots of better renders here: http://m.nydailynews.com/life-style/real-estate/officials-developers-break-ground-15b-hudson-yards-article-1.1212797
December 5, 201212 yr Hudson Yards is basically the size of a typical midsize city's downtown, but with a fraction of the parking. Hudson Yards is capped at 6,000 parking spaces whereas DT Cincinnati has about 35,000.
December 5, 201212 yr I believe I read that it is the equivalent of building a Downtown Portland (talking office-space). "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
December 6, 201212 yr ^ geez thats wild to think of it like that. and, even crazier to imagine, it's all to be built on top of platforms over a big, busy working railyard.
December 6, 201212 yr Maybe a MOD can make a Hudson Yards thread. Feel free to delete this comment if/when you do.
December 6, 201212 yr ^ might be a good idea at some point, but for now we feast on renders... holy mackeral -- it's the mother of all renders!! :-o i think this 'knitted' residential bldg could be the winner? check out the highline winding around way down there!
December 6, 201212 yr ^ absolutely -- all of the rest of it, including the spur we had to fight to save!
December 8, 201212 yr ^ good question! yes, although that waterfront section seems lost in the hubub and still a little hazy to me. i'll keep an eye out from more news and renders.
December 9, 201212 yr Maybe a MOD can make a Hudson Yards thread. Feel free to delete this comment if/when you do. So let it be written, so let it be done. Wow! What a project!
December 10, 201212 yr One of the most incredible developments I've seen in the United States in a long time. I hope it inspires similarly themed developments in smaller cities, although admittedly the developments would be scaled smaller too. And, sorry, but when I see this........ I couldn't help but think of this....... "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
December 31, 201212 yr more on the hudson yards park With Hudson Yards Comes a 4-Acre, 10-Block Long Park Friday, December 7, 2012, by Jessica Dailey The ceremonial groundbreaking for the Hudson Yards towers took place...but this isn't the first part of the West Side transformation to get underway. A four-acre stretch of tree-lined green space, called Hudson Park and Boulevard, that will connect Hudson Yards with 42nd Street broke ground earlier this year. The designs for the park were chosen way back in 2008, and aside from brief mentions in Hudson Yards updates, it seems like no one has really paid much attention to it over the last few years, despite it being billed as the central pedestrian spine that will connect the mega-development to the rest of the city. http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2012/12/07/with_hudson_yards_comes_a_4acre_10block_long_park.php
July 31, 201311 yr a fascinating video animation showing how they are laying the deck over the open railyard for brookfield's manhattan west project nearby: i peeked in for a photo yesterday: ^ not sure how they will cap the hudson yards, which is to the west of that site and much larger and wider. they are working on the coach tower on the se corner now, which is right next to the yards, but does not require a cap.
August 16, 201311 yr here is a bit of surveying work i saw this morning on the westernmost section of the railyards
October 30, 201311 yr taken from the ohm tower nearby, here is a great view of progress on the coach tower, the railyard decking and the highline renovation via a fellow former clevelander on ssp: sept27 & oct3
November 17, 201311 yr working night and day around the railyards manhattan west project cap crane to the west -- hudson yards project coach tower
December 5, 201311 yr a really cool one minute video commemorating the one year anniversary of the beginning of the hudson yards and coach tower construction:
December 13, 201311 yr this one is the corset residential tower on the sw side of hudson yards: the highline next to the corset and a render of the rather mysterious west end of hudson yards
January 3, 201411 yr new year, new incredible renders released! ^ if you are wondering why there is nothing on the western waterfront half of the railyards its because nothing has been designed yet or released yet. it will be mostly residential. its also where related expects to make their money, do you can bet it will be on the way asap. this is really all we have about it:
January 3, 201411 yr ^this actually looks a little better than the stuff going up at Ground Zero, but I'm sick of all this overdevelopment! Why not just build one giant 250 story building over 10 square miles of land? When will enough be enough? Maybe a deBlasio administration won't be so bad after all. At least his voice is more pleasant to listen to than Bloomberg's. http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
January 3, 201411 yr It's the largest city in the country, one of if not the most important cities in the world, and is seeing massive demand in every regard for office space, residential space, retail space, etc. There's no such thing as 'enough' for a city like this. It will forever be changing. Buildings will continue getting bigger. Population will continue getting denser. Public spaces will continue to get better as they have been. The city is moving itself towards a new future and there's no reason to see massive developments that make use of incredibly underutilized space as being overdeveloped. Thinking a city should slow down and remain the same is asking a city to stagnate. And anyone on the Urbanohio board should know exactly what happens when a city stagnates.
January 3, 201411 yr ^I seriously doubt that New York will "stagnate" in the absence of this project. I assume that you, like the majority of people on this forum, are vehemently opposed to unbridled suburban sprawl, right? But doesn't this happen as a result of "massive demand" for McMansions and McDonalds by people who love that sort of lifestyle. Therefore it's a good thing, since there's no downside to developing all of that "incredibly underutilized space" (fields and farmlands). Anybody with any aesthetic objections should just get over it. After all, who really cares whether ever taller skyscrapers block the sun more and more, and whether streets and sidewalks in a particular neighborhood become ever more congested by virtue of squeezing more people into spaces already too tight to accommodate existing populations and overtaxing public services? Isn't this just the sort of thing urban planners are supposed to plan? Is this forum secretly controlled by the real estate industry?? :laugh: http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
January 3, 201411 yr This one project won't cause NYC to stagnate, no. But an opposition to development in general will. NYC isn't too big to fall apart. It already almost happened in the 70s and 80s. Restricting development just ups the price of the developments that do go through. It will only lead to an increase in the already extreme cost of living in NYC. There's a huge difference between farmland and nature being redeveloped into McMansions and two whole city blocks being filled in in the densest place in this country. Farmland and undeveloped land IS already useful. A humongous piece of land within the heart of Manhattan that leads to the Hudson, connects to arguably the most successful urban park in the country, etc. should not just be a railyard. Blocking the sun sounds exactly like the NIMBY lead arguments against the towers being built on 57th Street. The Hudson Yards has huge open public spaces. It's a city. Shadows exist. But it's not going to feel like you're in a cave like many seem to fear. Maybe my opinion of what constitutes congestion is skewed, but never while in NYC have I felt like there were too many people with only one two exceptions and those were Times Square and the area around the WTC. Beyond that though I never felt like the sidewalks were not large enough to hold the people using them. Hell, even the trains in Manhattan at rush hour, though certainly crowded, were almost never SO crowded that people weren't able to get on. There was always room and almost always the only people who wouldn't get on chose not to do so, not because there wasn't room somewhere on the train.
January 3, 201411 yr I don't know about stagnation, but opposition to development is the biggest single reason by housing is so expensive in NYC. Rent regulated tenants and homeowners can afford to oppose new development because they are mostly immune from the housing market (or even benefit from a tight market, if they sell their home or illegally sublet their apartment), but the rest of us suckers end up paying the price. Unfortunately, market rate tenants are a minority in NY and prospective residents who are priced out don't get a vote.
January 6, 201411 yr I don't know about stagnation, but opposition to development is the biggest single reason by housing is so expensive in NYC. Rent regulated tenants and homeowners can afford to oppose new development because they are mostly immune from the housing market (or even benefit from a tight market, if they sell their home or illegally sublet their apartment), but the rest of us suckers end up paying the price. Unfortunately, market rate tenants are a minority in NY and prospective residents who are priced out don't get a vote. O I don't know about stagnation, but opposition to development is the biggest single reason by housing is so expensive in NYC. Rent regulated tenants and homeowners can afford to oppose new development because they are mostly immune from the housing market (or even benefit from a tight market, if they sell their home or illegally sublet their apartment), but the rest of us suckers end up paying the price. Unfortunately, market rate tenants are a minority in NY and prospective residents who are priced out don't get a vote. In addition, there are so many people who have 2nd homes here, they don't care. Neighbors ask me all the time why I don't attend CB, Park district or Block association meetings on a regular. My house is an "investment". As long as my house continues to appreciate, I not emotionally invested.
January 12, 201411 yr i was starting to wonder again when this would happen and here it is. now developers are talkin about adding an 1800' hudson spire nearby:
January 17, 201411 yr one of the funnier renders, brookfield's manhattan west hudson yards project with no related hudson yards towers in sight:
January 19, 201411 yr OMG! The EVD/MTS coalition to stop NYC overdevelopment! The EVDMTSCTSNYCOD. I'm being forced to move into this crap in four years! Currently I have an easy 15 min. commute to work, a gigantic office with an amazing Central Park view. Now I'll most likely be forced to gaze upon the unwashed and uncultured masses of New Jersey!
January 19, 201411 yr so this one lost 100' in height over the week, to 1227' currently, but the base was vastly improved. still a work in progress.
March 3, 201411 yr story of the coach move to hudson yards: http://nypost.com/2014/03/03/coach-inc-buys-in-to-hudson-yards-claims-new-home/ coach tower construction as of a few days ago. its just an amazing construction site. the highline spur & coach construction
March 27, 201411 yr from gizmodo blog - how nyc's newsest neighborhood will float over an active train yard: http://gizmodo.com/how-nycs-newest-neighborhood-will-float-above-an-activ-1546127069
March 28, 201411 yr more from a couple days ago this is the 7 train extension launch box south of hudson yards
June 18, 201410 yr a sneak peak at hudson park & blvd, some of it will open this year: http://www.bisnow.com/commercial-real-estate/new-york/2013-sneak-peek-hudson-park-boulevard/
July 2, 201410 yr a recent look at the coach tower construction from the highline. colossal does not even begin to describe the worksite:
July 2, 201410 yr The scale of that building is pretty unbelievable. And the atrium is massive. I was going to PM you but your inbox is full. I'm also on the west side of Manhattan. We should grab a beer sometime.
July 24, 201410 yr related recently gave a big media tour of the hudson rail yards project, so we have tons of photos and information. it's incredible: a succinct overview from gizmodo blog: http://gizmodo.com/inside-the-futuristic-neighborhood-being-built-over-a-b-1606935392 amtrak tunnel new hudson blvd & 7 train station ^ more photos and info: http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/07/22/55_photos_inside_the_hudson_yards_construction_site.php New York City is now home to the largest private real estate development in United States history. The Hudson Yards project will provide “more than 17 million square feet of commercial and residential space, more than 100 shops, 20 restaurants, approximately 5,000 residences, a unique cultural space, 14 acres of public open space, a 750-seat public school and a 150-room luxury hotel”. Located between 30th and 33rd streets on the west side of Manhattan, The Hudson Yards project is expected to create over 23,000 construction jobs. The last time a project of this scale was constructed in New York City was Rockefeller Center in the 1930′s. ^more: http://thesqfootage.com/2675/manhattans-new-west-side/ In March, Related celebrated the official groundbreaking for the $700 million platform on top of which the developer’s Hudson Yards buildings will rest. And soon, work on the firm’s second office tower – 30 Hudson Yards, sometimes called the North Tower, and the first to be built atop the deck rather than on terra firma – will commence, with architect KPF filing permits this morning under the structure’s official name, 500 West 33rd Street. Financing arrangements for the tower are in the works, and the construction loan will close in mid-2015, at which point the tower will begin to go vertical. Time Warner, which will own their own space, will be the anchor tenant at the tower at 10th Avenue and 33rd Street, occupying the building up to the 38th floor, with the choicest perches still up for grabs. ^more: http://newyorkyimby.com/2014/07/permits-filed-30-hudson-yards.html finally -- recent news about the coach tower construction from our friend ccs77 on ssp: There are almost three more floors in a bit more than five weeks, about one floor every two weeks. I think they will speed up later, but if the keep that pace they should do some 25 more floors by the end of the year. to a total of about 35 floors.
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