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https://nypost.com/2024/03/13/busine...-neighborhood/

NYC developer plans to build 28-story office tower in trendy Manhattan neighborhood

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By Steve Cuozzo
March 13, 2024

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The developer behind Essex Crossing plans to build a nearly half-million square-foot office tower on Trinity Church land at Hudson Square — a sign of confidence in Manhattan’s troubled commercial market.

Taconic Partners and its investment partner Nuveen Real Estate unveiled images of One Grand, a tower to rise at the corner of Grand and Varick streets where Soho, Hudson Square and Tribeca converge.

The project designed by SHoP Architects is shown here for the first time.

It will rise 28 stories with 430,763 square feet of office space.

The first office floor will be 100 feet above ground with a public school and retail below it.

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Taconic won’t start construction until it finds an anchor tenant — standard for nearly all new developments. The leasing task falls to a JLL team headed by New York president Peter Riguardi.

Several “supertall” office projects are theoretically planned in Midtown, but their designs are vague and none is anywhere near to coming out of the ground during the market downturn.

One Grand’s more modest size and fully-realized architecture give it a head start over the field.

The land is owned by Trinity Church, which remains one of Lower Manhattan’s major landowners. It chose Taconic and Nuveen to develop the site in 2019.

Taconic says the tower will boast advanced wellness and sustainability features, a 13,000-square-foot amenities center, 20,000 square feet of outdoor space and 14-foot ceiling heights.

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One Grand is exactly what I wanted 175 Park to be called.

^Terminal Tower is a excellent runner up IMO.

This proposal looks terrific BTW, but no way should it get built without NYCTA getting an elevator to make the Canal St IRT station accessible*. And like every development that is station adjacent, I would like to see those flood vulnerable street stairs removed and tucked into the base of the new development. I have no idea why this just isn't city and MTA policy at this point.

*This could be done in conjunction with reopening the cross-under with a platform elevator on the southbound side so a second ground level elevator wouldn't be necessary across Varick.

Nice to see SHoP on another project in the city, but I'm not a fan of the roof. A building of this height and design should have a flat roof, or at least one not angled in the way this one is. I think it takes away from the design.

Of course, it could just be the angle of the rendering. Still don't like it. Haircut!

https://a4.pbase.com/o12/06/102706/1....OneGrand3.jpg

https://a4.pbase.com/o12/06/102706/1....OneGrand2.jpg

^I'm assuming that angle is parallel with Grand.

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Originally Posted by Busy Bee (Post 10164015)

^I'm assuming that angle is parallel with Grand.

Probably so. Doesn't matter though, I still don't like it. It should be flush with the rest of the tower.

this is a rebrand of 2 Hudson Square

Good to hear its still in development. One of the few sites that can produce a sizable highrise after the neighborhood was hit with a height limit.