Community Calls on the MTA to Require Sustainable Development at the West...
The community-based Hudson Yards Community Advisory Committee (HYCAC) released their response to the West Side Rail Yards proposals today in a letter to the MTA. Among the highlights: (1) HYCAC...
View ArticleHow Sweet It Is: Ogilvy, Gensler to Make Green at Auerbach Chocolate Factory...
Hudson Yards won’t be the only development on the far West Side of Manhattan to incorporate sustainable design principles. After recently inking a long-term lease for the entire property, Ogilvy New...
View ArticleMTA 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 ArticleNow 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 ArticleExpect 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 ArticleZone 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 ArticleFriday 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 ArticleSlow 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 ArticleBjarke 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 ArticleCoach, 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 ArticleConstruction 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 ArticleTransformation 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 ArticleIn 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 ArticleThe 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 ArticleBig, 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...
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