50 Hudson Yards
427 10th Avenue | also 505 West 33rd Street, 20 Hudson Boulevard East, 421 10th Avenue | Hudson Yards | built 2021
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- 2014
New renderings show a 62-story, 1,068-foot tower with three stacked volumes
In April 2014 new renderings were released for a 62-story building of 2.3 million square feet, shown at 1,068 feet tall. The plan had changed from a step-like tower with a white facade to a three-part form of rectangular blocks, each smaller than the one below.
“In April 2014, new renderings of a 62-story, 2.3-million-square-foot…”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2015
Related buys the McDonald's corner, the last parcel for the tower, as 65 workers are cut
Related Companies bought the McDonald's at 34th Street and 10th Avenue, which the chain had owned for decades. The company told the state at the end of September that all 65 employees would be laid off by the end of 2015. The lot was the final parcel needed for the tower; over seven years Related had spent $200 million on the rest of the block.
Source: 6sqft
- 2016
Related closes on the 427 Tenth Avenue McDonald's lot for $152.3 million
In January 2016 Related closed on the McDonald's at 427 Tenth Avenue for $152.3 million. The corner lot completed an assemblage that included 413 Tenth Avenue and 507 West 33rd Street. The developer planned to demolish the restaurant, though no demolition permits had yet been filed. It would then build a 62-story office tower.
Source: therealdeal.com
- 2016
BlackRock signs on as anchor tenant as Foster + Partners' design for 50 Hudson Yards is revealed
BlackRock agreed in 2016 to move its headquarters into the planned tower, leasing 15 floors, about 847,000 square feet. New renderings in December of that year showed the design by Foster + Partners. In April 2014 renderings had already replaced an earlier stepped, white-faced concept with three stacked rectangular blocks, each smaller than the one beneath.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2017
Related secures $3.8 billion in financing, with Mitsui Fudosan owning 90 percent
In September 2017 the developer Related Companies lined up $3.8 billion of financing for the tower, with a $1.5 billion loan as one piece. Mitsui Fudosan owns 90 percent of it. Five banks, among them Deutsche Bank, HSBC and Wells Fargo, took part in the financing, and the finished tower cost an estimated $3.9 billion.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2018
Foundation work starts on the site of a long-running drive-through McDonald's
Work on the foundation began in May 2018, and that August the planned height rose from 985 to 1,011 feet. The tower took the place of a drive-through McDonald's that for years occupied the southwest corner of 34th Street and Tenth Avenue. Its entrance faces the 34th Street-Hudson Yards stop on the extended 7 subway line.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2019
Frank Stella's starburst sculptures are unveiled for the lobby of 50 Hudson Yards
In January 2019 the developers showed two starburst-shaped sculptures by the American artist Frank Stella, made of painted steel, aluminum and fiberglass, for the building's lobby. Norman Foster designed an oval staircase that curves around one interlocking star. A further pair of large abstract works hangs from the lobby ceiling at ground level.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2019
Facebook announces it will take 1.2 million square feet at 50 Hudson Yards
In November 2019 Facebook, now Meta, announced that it would occupy 1.2 million square feet in the tower, about 80 percent of the space it planned at Hudson Yards. In 2022 it was reported that Meta would sublease part of those floors as it cut costs. Truist Financial signed for 100,000 square feet in September 2022.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2021
The final beam goes up and 50 Hudson Yards tops out at 1,011 feet
On February 12, 2021, the last beam of the 1,011-foot tower was lifted into place. The building was already 75 percent leased, with the global headquarters of BlackRock and Facebook's biggest office outside California to come. Hudson Yards thanked more than a thousand tradespeople who had built it over four years under pandemic safety rules.
Source: hudsonyardsnewyork.com
- 2022
50 Hudson Yards opens as the fourth-largest office tower in the city by leasable area
The 58-story, 1,011-foot tower opened on October 19, 2022, with 2.9 million square feet of office space, fourth-largest in the city by leasable area. Foster + Partners designed the glass and marble facade, with interiors by Tony Ingrao. That month the developers Related and Oxford Properties took out a loan of roughly $349 million from Wells Fargo, and Russ & Daughters and Starbucks opened locations there in 2023.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2023
Russ & Daughters and Starbucks open locations in the new tower
After the tower opened in October 2022, Russ & Daughters opened a location in the building in 2023. A Starbucks opened there the same year.
“Russ & Daughters and Starbucks opened locations in the building in 2023.”
Source: Wikipedia
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