Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project
The Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project is a New York City Department of City Planning and Metropolitan Transportation Authority proposal to encourage business development on Manhattan's far West Side along the Hudson River. The project initially included a rezoning of the Far West Side of Manhattan, an extension of the No. 7 subway train to 11th Avenue and 34th Street, an expansion of the Javits Center, and a stadium for the New York Jets over the MTA's West Side Yard. The stadium would have also been used for the 2012 Summer Olympics, had New York been selected to host, although stadium project failed to receive state approval. The rezoning action, comprising approximately 60 blocks from 28th to 43rd Streets, was adopted by the New York City Council in January 2005[1] and, after the failure of the stadium project, the Western Rail Yard was similarly rezoned in 2009. As rezoned, the Hudson Yards area will have 25,800,000 square feet (2,400,000 m2) of Class A office space, 20,000 housing units, Two million square feet of hotel space, 750-seat public school, One million square feet of retail and more than 20 acres of public open space.[2] In May 2010, the MTA announced it had signed a contract with a joint venture of Related Companies and Oxford Properties Group; the MTA will lease the air rights over the railyard for 99 years to the joint venture, which will then build a platform over the rail yard on which it will construct the buildings.[3]
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 A simulation of the Hudson Yards once completed in the year 2015. |
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| General information | |
| Type | Mixed Use |
| Location | 33rd Street & Twelfth Avenue New York, New York USA |
| Design and construction | |
| Management | New York City, USA |
| Main contractor | The Related Companies |
| Architect | Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, Master Planner; Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Field Operations, Thomas Phifer & Partners, ShoP Architect, SANAA, and Handel Architect |
Hudson Yards is a proposed mixed-use real estate development that will be part of the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The development is expected to consist of 16 skyscrapers using the air rights of the West Side Yard, and is planned to contain over 12,700,000 square feet (1,180,000 m2) of new office, residential, and retail space.
The developer of the project is The Related Companies. Other firms involved are Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates as Master Planner, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Field Operations, Thomas Phifer & Partners, ShoP Architects, SANAA, and Handel Architects.
The project will be built on a platform above both the eastern and western portions of the John D. Caemmerer West Side Yard. The Related project is the centerpiece of the larger Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project; the eastern half was not part of the original 2005 rezoning.
The first building to be built will be a 997-foot-tall office building in the southeast corner of the site anchored by Coach. [4]
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- ^ Purnick, Joyce (January 2, 2005). "What Rises in the West? Uncertainty". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/20/nyregion/20matters.html. Retrieved 2010-03-06.
- ^ Bagli, Charles V. (December 21, 2009). "Rezoning Will Allow Railyard Project to Advance". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/nyregion/22hudson.html. Retrieved 2009-12-22.
- ^ "MTA Finalizes Hudson Yards Deal". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. May 26, 2010. http://www.mta.info/news/stories/?story=67. Retrieved 2010-05-31.
- ^ "Hudson Yards Brochure". Related. http://www.related.com/destinations/hudsonyards/images/Hudson%20Yards%20Brochure.pdf. Retrieved 2011-11-03.
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