30 Hudson Yards
500 West 33rd Street | also 30 Hudson Yards, 20 Hudson Yards | Hudson Yards | built 2018
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- 2012
Ground breaks on 30 Hudson Yards, a Kohn Pedersen Fox tower first planned at 1,337 feet
Ground was broken for the tower on December 4, 2012. Kohn Pedersen Fox was chosen to design it, and it was first planned at 1,337 feet before being reduced to 1,270 feet, still the tallest building in the Hudson Yards development. A triangular observation deck known as the Edge juts out from the 100th floor, and a bar and event venue sits above it on the 101st.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2013
Tutor Perini wins a $510 million contract to build the platform under the tower
Early construction focused on a platform covering much of the Eastern Rail Yard, resting on caissons drilled down to the Manhattan schist bedrock and designed so the Gateway rail tunnel could pass underneath with a clear path. Tutor Perini Building Corp. was named on December 12, 2013 as the winner of a $510 million contract for the platform.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2013
Time Warner agrees to anchor the future 30 Hudson Yards
In 2013, Time Warner announces plans to move most of its offices from the Time Warner Center to a new tower rising over the West Side rail yards. The commitment, later inherited by WarnerMedia and then Warner Bros. Discovery, helps anchor the financing for what becomes 30 Hudson Yards. Construction on the tower begins the following year.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2019
30 Hudson Yards opens on a platform built over the rail yard
Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, the 1,270-foot, 73-floor tower opened on March 15, 2019, as part of the Hudson Yards redevelopment. It stands on a platform that covers much of the Eastern Rail Yard, held up by caissons drilled into Manhattan bedrock. Tenants include Warner Bros. Discovery, KKR, Wells Fargo and Visa.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2019
Hudson Yards unveils Edge as the Western Hemisphere's tallest outdoor observation deck
A year before opening, developers named the planned deck Edge and said it would stand more than 1,100 feet up, above the Empire State Building's 1,050-foot deck and Top of the Rock's 850 feet. The 7,500-square-foot outdoor area was designed to extend 65 feet from the 100th floor with a glass floor, reached by a 60-second elevator ride, beside a 10,000-square-foot restaurant, bar and event space.
Source: cnn.com
- 2019
Jaume Plensa's 'Voices' hangs 11 steel orbs in the 30 Hudson Yards lobby
The tower's lobby holds 'Voices,' an installation by the Spanish artist Jaume Plensa of 11 steel orbs in assorted sizes, marked with letters from eight international alphabets. Developers Related and Oxford marked the tower's opening with a ribbon-cutting on April 3, 2019, attended by hundreds of real estate and business executives. The tower was meant to hold about 10,000 workers, with early tenants including Wells Fargo Securities, KKR and the WarnerMedia units CNN, HBO, Warner Bros. and Turner.
Source: amny.com
- 2019
WarnerMedia agrees to sell its offices to Related and Allianz for $2.2 billion and lease them back
Related Companies contracted in April 2019 to buy WarnerMedia's roughly 1.5-million-square-foot office space for about $2.2 billion and lease it back, with WarnerMedia staying through 2034. Allianz Real Estate joined the deal with a stake of about 45 percent. WarnerMedia had bought the condominium in 2014 and listed it in January, and AT&T planned to use the proceeds to reduce its debt. The deal was the city's largest since Google's $2.4 billion Chelsea Market purchase.
Source: commercialobserver.com
- 2019
CNN begins broadcasting from new studios in the tower
CNN began broadcasting from its new studios in the tower in May 2019, a month after WarnerMedia agreed to sell its office space and lease it back. Studio 21L is home to Anderson Cooper 360 and CNN Newsnight, while Erin Burnett OutFront, Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN News Central and The Source come from studio 19Z. Studio 19Y houses CNN This Morning and Quest Means Business.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2019
Neiman Marcus anchors the new Hudson Yards mall
Neiman Marcus signs on in September 2014 as anchor tenant of a shopping mall at Hudson Yards, eventually occupying the top three levels, about a quarter of the million-square-foot complex, when it opens on March 15, 2019. Luxury brands Dior and Chanel and mainstream retailers H&M, Zara, and Sephora fill the rest of the space, while chef Thomas Keller opens his TAK Room restaurant. The mall opens the same day as neighboring 30 Hudson Yards.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2020
The Edge observation deck opens 1,100 feet above the street
Edge, an outdoor sky deck that juts from the side of the tower at about 1,100 feet, opened to visitors on March 11, 2020. Its best-known feature is a triangular glass floor of about 225 square feet that looks straight down 1,131 feet to the street. Critics compared the deck's projecting shape to a duck's bill.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2020
Edge reopens after closing two days into its first run
Edge opened to visitors on March 11, 2020, but closed two days later because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it reopened on September 2, 2020. The outdoor deck projects 80 feet south from the 100th floor, with nine-foot glass barriers slanted 6.6 degrees outward and a 225-square-foot glass triangle looking down about 1,131 feet to the street.
“…temporarily closed two days later due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. Edge reopened on September 2, 2020.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2023
Wells Fargo converts a third of the mall into office space
After the COVID-19 pandemic empties out many of the mall's stores, including Neiman Marcus and Sephora, and restaurants such as TAK Room and Momofuku Kawi, Wells Fargo buys 445,000 square feet across three of the mall's floors for $550 million in September 2023. The bank converts the former retail space into offices for roughly 2,300 employees, part of a broader shift of the Hudson Yards podium toward office use.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2024
Visa and Stonepeak sublease space from Warner Bros. Discovery
WarnerMedia merged with Discovery in 2022 to form Warner Bros. Discovery, which remains a tenant of the tower. In December 2024 Visa and Stonepeak subleased portions of that space. Visa now occupies floors 43 to 45, while KKR holds floors 74 to 83 and Wells Fargo Securities the lower floors and some upper ones.
Source: Wikipedia
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