Perelman Performing Arts Center
251 Fulton Street | also 73 Vesey Street, 71 Vesey Street, 255 Fulton Street | Financial District | built 2023
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- 2004
The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation picks Gehry Partners and Snøhetta to design an arts center
On October 12, 2004, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation announced that Gehry Partners and the Norwegian firm Snøhetta would design a performing arts center at the World Trade Center site. Gehry's boxlike proposal would have housed the Joyce Theater, because the Signature Theatre Company had dropped out over space and cost limits. The design was later scrapped, and the project stalled for years.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2015
Joshua Ramus's REX is chosen to design the arts center after Gehry's plan is dropped
The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation announced in 2004 that Gehry Partners and Snohetta would design the performing arts center, but Gehry's boxlike scheme is scrapped by September 2014. In November 2015, the center awards the design contract to Joshua Ramus of REX, with Davis Brody Bond as executive architect.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2016
Ronald Perelman donates $75 million toward the arts center
Billionaire Ronald Perelman gives $75 million on June 29, 2016, toward construction, an endowment, and operations for the planned performing arts center at the World Trade Center site, and the center is renamed for him. The project also draws $130 million from Michael Bloomberg, a gift not disclosed until 2023, and $100 million from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2020
The performing arts center tops out on the 19th anniversary of 9/11
Below-ground work begins in August 2017, and underground work is finished by July 2019, when steel construction begins. The structure tops out on September 11, 2020, the 19th anniversary of the attacks that led to the site's redevelopment.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2023
The center's marble skin is cut thin enough to pass light and is laminated in glass
The cube-shaped center is clad in thousands of marble panels, 4,896 by The Nation's count, cut thin enough for light to pass through them. The stone is laminated with glass to keep it from warping, and its amber veining forms an undulating, kaleidoscopic pattern. The building was planned at about half a billion dollars, including a grant of $89 million from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and the federal housing department.
Source: thenation.com
- 2023
The Perelman Performing Arts Center opens with a ribbon-cutting ceremony
A ribbon-cutting ceremony opens the center, branded PAC NYC, on September 13, 2023, two days ahead of schedule. The first public performance is set for September 19. The building cost $560 million, and its first season includes Trinity Church Wall Street's concert series.
Source: Wikipedia
Further reading
- Perelman Performing Arts CenterWikipedia
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