MTA Selects Tishman Speyer’s LEED Gold Bid for Hudson Yards
On Wednesday, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority chose Tishman Speyer to develop the Hudson Yards site on the far West Side of Manhattan. Tishman’s $1 billion bid for a 99-year ground lease from...
View ArticleMonday LEEDoff: MTA Selects Related Companies to Develop Hudson Yards
Tishman Speyer’s loss is now the Related Companies’ gain. The MTA announced today that it has selected Related and Goldman Sachs to develop Hudson Yards into a $1 billion mixed-use neighborhood that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Now Approved, Javits Center Expansion Project to Seek LEED Silver
The long-anticipated but delayed expansion of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on the far West Side is finally moving forward after approval last week from the Public Authorities Control Board....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Expect Subway Delays: Planned Westward 7 Train Expansion Is Stalled
Maybe you’ve heard, or passed by a window today, but it’s snowing like a mother out there. (At least in New York; in Vancouver, on the mountain that’s supposed to host the Olympic snowboarding...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Zone Defense: Streetsblog on Greening NYC Zoning
The ins and outs of green building and green real estate are not the hardest things in the world to learn, and my byline on this blog is a testament to that. I am, professionally, more or less a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Friday Reading: Ambitious New Art Space in Hudson Yards, Richard Meier’s...
The thermometer says it’s 92 degrees; the heat index bumps that up a few degrees more. And while we here at gbNYC are usually pretty skeptical of climate science — remember that time it was really...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Slow Train Coming: Phase 1 of Moynihan Station Project Might Actually Happen
Among those who care about this sort of thing, the destruction of the old, grand Penn Station is considered one of the greatest crimes of Robert Moses’s reign as New York City’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bjarke To The Future: Meet NYC’s New Green Architect Crush
Architecture is hardly immune to the allure of trendoid groupthink, but given the hyperspeed buzz-to-backlash cycle that currently obtains in, say, rock and roll — where a band can be totally “over” a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Coach, Inc. Will Anchor First LEED Platinum Tower to Rise at Hudson Yards
At a press conference held earlier this week, Mayor Bloomberg announced that the handbag maker Coach has agreed to purchase a 600,000-square-foot condominium interest in the first commercial office...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Construction to Proceed at First LEED Platinum Hudson Yards Office Tower...
Late last month, Related announced that Bank of America and a Middle East wealth fund have agreed to provide $400 million in financing that will allow the developer to proceed next month with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Transformation of Far West Side Begins as New York City Breaks Ground on...
At long last, New York City has broken ground on the massive Hudson Yards project. With the South Office Tower (Coach’s future LEED Platinum headquarters) already under construction, Speaker Christine...
View ArticleClik here to view.
In Hudson Yards, Major Tenants to Join Coach at LEED Platinum South Office Tower
Related and Oxford Properties Group have announced that L’Oréal USA (402,000 square feet) and the technology firm SAP (115,000 square feet, across the tower’s top four floors) have signed leases at...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Top Five Possible Locations for a New Madison Square Garden
Possible landing destinations for a MSG V, including the Farley Building annex on 9th Avenue west of the current arena. Big news last week in New York City: the City Council voted 47-1 to extend...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Big, Bright, & Green: A Closer Look at the Future of Midtown West
Rendering of Hudson Yards and the far West Side of Manhattan. With Time Warner having a deal in place to move from Columbus Circle to Hudson Yards, a new Fairway Market slated to anchor retail space in...
View ArticlePenn 2023: Making the Case for a New Penn Station, MSG, & Midtown West
The first in a series of reports from the Alliance for a New Penn Station begins building a strong case for a new Midtown West anchored by a twenty-first century, regional mass transit hub where...
View Article
