Author Topic: New York: Hudson Yards (Read 826 times)

mrnyc · « **on:** November 30, 2011, 03:24:23 AM »

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

mrnyc · « **Reply #1 on:** December 03, 2012, 10:10:31 PM »

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

OTR · « **Reply #2 on:** December 04, 2012, 02:21:05 AM »

Hudson Yards is going to be unreal. Like, I can hardly comprehend it.

jmecklenborg · « **Reply #3 on:** December 05, 2012, 04:13:27 AM »

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.

ColDayMan · « **Reply #4 on:** December 05, 2012, 08:33:24 AM »

I believe I read that it is the equivalent of building a Downtown Portland (talking office-space).

mrnyc · « **Reply #5 on:** December 06, 2012, 02:11:42 AM »

^ 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.

OTR · « **Reply #6 on:** December 06, 2012, 02:44:39 AM »

Maybe a MOD can make a Hudson Yards thread. Feel free to delete this comment if/when you do.

mrnyc · « **Reply #7 on:** December 06, 2012, 04:00:09 AM »

^ might be a good idea at some point, but for now we feast on renders...

holy mackeral -- it's the mother of all renders!!

i think this 'knitted' residential bldg could be the winner?
check out the highline winding around way down there!

jmecklenborg · « **Reply #8 on:** December 06, 2012, 04:25:29 AM »

So is the High Line going to be integrated at all with these new buildings?

mrnyc · « **Reply #9 on:** December 06, 2012, 04:34:13 AM »

^ absolutely -- all of the rest of it, including the spur we had to fight to save!

OTR · « **Reply #10 on:** December 06, 2012, 06:42:44 AM »

so they're capping the area between 11th and 12th with a park?

mrnyc · « **Reply #11 on:** December 08, 2012, 02:30:33 AM »

^ 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.

Columbo · « **Reply #12 on:** December 09, 2012, 10:39:57 AM »

Quote from: OTR on December 06, 2012, 02:44:39 AM

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!

mrnyc · « **Reply #13 on:** December 09, 2012, 10:51:42 AM »

aaand boom bah -- very good idea!

KJP · « **Reply #14 on:** December 09, 2012, 11:23:24 AM »

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.......

mrnyc · « **Reply #15 on:** December 31, 2012, 06:15:10 AM »

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

mrnyc · « **Reply #16 on:** March 29, 2013, 04:21:30 AM »

yowza - hudson yards, brookfield, moynihan and amtrak gateway/penn south developments all at a glance!

Living in Gin · « **Reply #17 on:** March 29, 2013, 08:29:51 AM »

^ Any chance of providing a link to a higher-resolution version of that image?

mrnyc · « **Reply #18 on:** March 29, 2013, 05:41:58 PM »

^ yeah that didnt come out so well did it?

clik on the 'would be constructed just south' hyperlink in the article:

http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2011/02/07/arc-revived-as-the-amtrak-gateway-project/

Living in Gin · « **Reply #19 on:** March 29, 2013, 05:56:25 PM »

Cool, thanks. FWIW, at the bottom of the article is a link to the full PDF document.

mrnyc · « **Reply #20 on:** April 14, 2013, 06:52:25 AM »

its on!

from yesterday -

work at the current north end of the highline (w30th st):

a little to the west of this (at dyer ave) is...manhattan west underway:

ha!

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