Deutsche Bank Center (Time Warner Center)
1 Columbus Circle | also 35 Columbus Circle, 25 Columbus Circle, 20 Columbus Circle | Lincoln Square | built 2004
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- 1955
Part of the New York Coliseum's main hall collapses during construction, killing a worker
In 1955, while the New York Coliseum was still being built on the Columbus Circle site, part of its main hall collapsed. One worker was killed and 50 were injured. The convention hall, designed by the architects Leon and Lionel Levy and built by Robert Moses's Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, opened the next year. It stood on the lot until it was demolished to make way for Time Warner Center.
Source: westsidespirit.com
- 1956
The New York Coliseum opens on the site and is honored with a postage stamp
The New York Coliseum, which stood on this Columbus Circle site before the Time Warner Center, opened in 1956, and a postage stamp marked the occasion. Its events over the following decades included the Philatelic Exhibition, the National Photographic Show and the New York International Auto Show. It shut in 1986 following a men's sportswear show, and the MTA put it up for sale.
Source: westsidespirit.com
- 1998
The city picks Time Warner and Related to replace the New York Coliseum
In late July 1998 the city chose a $345 million proposal from Time Warner and the Related Companies for the site of the New York Coliseum, the convention hall that opened in 1956. Donald Trump had offered more money, but officials preferred a twin-tower scheme to his single slab. Earlier that year the city and state had agreed that the project must hold a concert hall of 1,100 seats for the Jazz at Lincoln Center program. David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill was kept on as designer.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2000
Ground is broken on AOL Time Warner Center, backed by a record $1.3 billion construction loan
The groundbreaking took place on November 14, 2000, for a project then called AOL Time Warner Center. That June, Childs and his SOM colleagues T. J. Gottesdiener and Mustafa K. Abadan had settled on two glass-clad parallelogram towers, and General Motors Acceptance Corporation agreed to lend $1.3 billion, thought to be the biggest construction loan for a New York property up to then. Bovis Lend Lease took the general contractor role.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2001
About forty condominiums sell for $200 million in the months after September 11
The condominiums were offered for sale in August 2001, at prices from $1.8 million for a two-bedroom up to $35 million for a penthouse. Despite the attacks that September, around forty apartments sold for a combined $200 million before the year ended. Among the buyers was Sandie N. Tillotson, who paid $30 million for the north tower's top floor, then a record for a condominium.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2003
A construction fire damages floors four through seven, including future Jazz at Lincoln Center space
In April 2003, while the towers were still going up, a blaze hit floors four through seven, damaging part of the space meant for Jazz at Lincoln Center. By late 2003 the project had 39 open construction violations, and about 60 percent of the condominiums had been sold.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2004
An electrical fire wrecks the kitchen of Thomas Keller's Per Se five days after it opens
On the afternoon of February 21, 2004, fire broke out in wiring inside the walls of the floor below Per Se, the restaurant Thomas Keller had opened five days earlier on the fourth floor of the building's mall. It devastated the kitchen and left smoke and water damage in the dining area, and water ran down into an eyeglass store below. A firefighter broke a finger; no one else was hurt.
Source: firehouse.com
- 2004
Falling metal sheeting leads Mayor Bloomberg to halt work on Time Warner Center
In April 2004, with finishing work still under way, a sheet of metal came loose from the facade and dropped. Debris had now fallen from the project four times since 2002, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered all work stopped temporarily. The complex had held its formal opening only two months earlier, on February 5.
“…a piece of metal sheeting fell off the facade. This prompted Bloomberg to order that all work on the building be temporarily halted…”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2004
The complex holds its formal opening, with the Shops at Columbus Circle finished
The Mandarin Oriental hotel had opened first, on November 15, 2003, and the whole complex marked its formal opening on February 5, 2004, with a benefit party to celebrate the finished Shops at Columbus Circle. Most of the mall's 40 shops and 10 restaurants, over four-fifths, were already trading, though retail experts doubted that a vertical mall could work in New York. Total cost came to $1.8 billion.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2004
Jazz at Lincoln Center opens Frederick P. Rose Hall in the base of the building
Jazz at Lincoln Center moved in during October 2004, nearly twelve months behind the rest of the complex. Rafael Viñoly designed the 100,000-square-foot Rose Hall, which holds the Rose Theater, the Allen Room (now the Appel Room) and Dizzy's Club, named for trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. The 1,200-ton Rose Theater auditorium sits on 26 insulating gaskets so that it is acoustically cut off from the rest of the building.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2014
Time Warner sells its interest in the Columbus Circle complex for $1.3 billion
In 2013 Time Warner said most of its offices would relocate to 30 Hudson Yards. In January 2014 it sold its interest in the complex to the Related Companies, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and GIC Private Limited for $1.3 billion. The buyers financed the office space with a $675 million mortgage, running five years, from Deutsche Bank and Bank of China.
“The following January, Time Warner sold its stake in the Columbus Circle building for $1.3 billion to the Related Companies, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, and GIC Private Limited.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2019
CNN leaves its Columbus Circle studios for Hudson Yards
The north tower's lower floors, four through nine, were built as CNN's New York studios: three big black-box stages, three smaller ones, two newsrooms and four control rooms. Alternate floor slabs were left out so the studios could have 27-foot ceilings for overhead lighting. Anderson Cooper's daytime talk show was taped in the Allen Room from 2011 to 2012, and CNN had moved to 30 Hudson Yards by late 2019.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2021
Deutsche Bank takes all the office space and the Time Warner name comes down
In May 2018 Deutsche Bank said it would rent every office floor, about 1.1 million square feet, for 25 years and move out of 60 Wall Street. Related said the building would be renamed Deutsche Bank Center once the bank arrived. The signs were swapped over about a week in May 2021, and the bank's staff were moving in by July.
Source: Wikipedia
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