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I've often wondered, these sorts of messages - are they very common? Instances when developers and contractors work with the community to make amends for noise, disturbances, etc.? I've always felt a bit of pride whenever I see things like this.
Community boards are usually updated when there will be disruption or noise (like blasting). The City itself has a hotline for complaints. It's not really a big deal, but remember, construction in New York usually takes place in areas that are already dense. They have to make an effort to cause as little disruption as possible. Although I was on a NJ Transit train earlier, and the power went out - right in the middle of those yards. I was certain it had something to do with the ongoing work there, but it really didn't. But if it happens too frequently, you won't be able to tell people that, lol.
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Because students have been complaining about the loud noise...
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local...199089331.html

http://www.fitnyc.edu/14253.asp


Brookfield responded with a weekly schedule of night construction...

http://www.fitnyc.edu/14263.asp


They have also undertaken several noise reduction measures...

http://www.fitnyc.edu/14262.asp

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Noise Reduction Progress to Date

To date, the following progress on reducing the night construction noise at Kaufman Hall can be reported:


•Brookfield Properties is utilizing drill and rock splitters where ever possible as an alternative to using significantly noisier hoe rams;

•Brookfield Properties has installed a 12-foot-high wall around the site instead of the NYC Department of Building's required 8-foot fence;

•Brookfield Properties is placing noise shrouds over the loudest machinery when they are being used;

•Sound attenuation blankets have been placed adjacent to all work areas;

•Sound jackets are being utilized on jackhammers when practical;

•Brookfield Properties has positioned trailers and equipment along the perimeter of the site to dampen sound;

•Brookfield Properties has enclosed the pressure manifold, a machine that generates significant noise, in a sound protection box;

•Brookfield Properties is monitoring sound with a decibel reading machine at the Kaufman Hall roof and loading dock and they have a sound monitor recording noise at street level;

•Brookfield Properties is now providing a schedule of work to FIT on a weekly basis;

•Brookfield Properties has identified a 24/7 representative with telephone and email contact information for registering suggestions and complaints.

•FIT has retained its own sound engineer to record interior noise from numerous residence-hall rooms on different floors. This monitoring will continue based on the construction schedule.
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Soooooo... lost all the height that made it cool?
     
     
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Soooooo... lost all the height that made it cool?
There's no publicly released height or design for any of the three buildings (two office, one residential) at this time.

There's only a rough conceptual rendering.
     
     
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Soooooo... lost all the height that made it cool?
We've gone from a 66-story tower and a 60-story tower to a development that now has two towers over 60 stories, plus a tall residential tower. We could very well end up with two supertalls or even three depending on how tall the residential will be. This development will close an open "hole" in the middle of Manhattan and be a neighbor to the just starting Hudson Yards towers, one of which will be above 1,300 ft.

If that's uncool, a lot of places would like to have it.



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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/re...anted=all&_r=0

By C. J. HUGHES
April 19, 2013


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Since the fall, Brookfield Office Properties has been building at 425 West 31st Street, the first leg of Manhattan West, a 5.4-million-square-foot mixed-use project on a two-block site on Ninth Avenue between 31st and 33rd Streets.

In addition to office space, Manhattan West will have a 57-story tower with 900 rental units, though Brookfield has configured the building with two elevator banks in case it decides to spin some of those units off as condos, said Philip Wharton, the company’s senior vice president for development.

Brookfield is also including a 1.5-acre plaza as part of its Manhattan West property. Built atop train tracks and Dyer Avenue, it will essentially function as a reconstituted leg of West 32nd Street, for pedestrians only. The T-shaped space will also align with New York’s main post office, for which a conversion to a train terminal called Moynihan Station has long been planned. “We’re kind of the front door of the project,” Mr. Wharton said.

He described future shops as lining the plaza and also being squeezed into the truck bays that stud the base of the adjacent 450 West 33rd Street, a slope-walled building owned by Brookfield.
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http://therealdeal.com/issues_articles/the-far-side/

Office developers compete for anchor tenants on Manhattan’s western edge
With only a finite number of large potential renters, the fight for office tenants on the West Side is heating up.





From left: Cushman & Wakefield’s Bruce Mosler and Brookfield’s Jeremiah Larkin at the Manhattan West construction site


May 01, 2013
By Adam Pincus


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Only a few times in modern Manhattan history has an entirely new office district sprung up all at once. In the 1930s, there was Rockefeller Center; the 1970s saw the World Trade Center complex; and today, developers are planning nearly 15 million square feet of new office space in the Hudson Yards area in the 30s on the Far West Side. The new projects expected to rise over the next decade include the Related Companies’ North and South towers at Hudson Yards, Extell Development’s One Hudson Yards, Brookfield Office Properties’ Manhattan West and Moinian’s 3 Hudson Boulevard, as well as Sherwood Equities’ 447 10th Avenue and Alloy Development’s 450 Hudson Park Boulevard.

But before starting construction on these new towers, developers must first land an anchor tenant willing to take at least 400,000 square feet of space. With only a finite number of large potential renters, the competition for office tenants is heating up, as some of the city’s top commercial leasing brokers and developers battle each other with slick marketing campaigns and — of course — behind-the-scenes jabs at rival projects.

In 2011, fashion manufacturer Coach signed on to be an anchor tenant of Related’s South Tower. But Coach was already located a few blocks away, in a building directly in the path of Hudson Yards bulldozers. For many of the other big companies whose names are being kicked around as possible anchor tenants, a move to the Far West Side would represent a significant geographic shift from Midtown or Downtown.

There are currently 10 to 20 companies said to be on the hunt for large chunks of Manhattan office space, brokers said. These include media companies Time Warner, Sony, CBS and News Corp.; law firms White & Case and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; advertising firm GroupM; financial giant Credit Suisse; and fashion house Ralph Lauren.

Brokers for the new Hudson Yards–area towers are fighting to lure these tenants, but their efforts could be in vain if companies decide to stay in their current locations, or move to existing office towers instead. Despite these challenges, Hudson Yards so far appears to be beating the odds. Last month, Related snagged two more tenants for the South Tower: French cosmetics maker L’Oreal and software firm SAP.

Manhattan West
Developer: Brookfield Office Properties

Size: North Tower, 2.2 million square feet; South Tower, 3.2 million square feet
Expected delivery: 2016 or 2017


Brookfield first announced the Manhattan West project more than five years ago during the real estate boom. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the project would also sit atop railroad tracks, requiring a platform to cover them.

Like many projects dreamed up back then, Manhattan West was halted during the downturn. Then in 2011, the plans were dusted off and reintroduced, with a cheaper platform that would be built more quickly. But after being on the market for nearly two years — longer than any other project except Related’s — Manhattan West still has not landed an anchor tenant. Furthermore, the towers have evolved from a commercial-only concept to one that could include residential as well.

Despite not having a tenant, Brookfield plans to begin construction of the $300 million platform in August, with completion set for October 2014, according to Bruce Mosler, chairman of global brokerage at Cushman & Wakefield. Mosler’s team was hired to market and lease Manhattan West.

Brookfield has largely finalized the design of the North Tower, but could build it or the larger South Tower first, or even both simultaneously, depending on the anchor tenants’ needs, Mosler said.

“There are use groups we are talking to that would encompass one tower, and there are users we are talking to that would require us to build [both] towers” at the same time, Mosler said.

Real estate executives not involved with Brookfield’s project said Time Warner is looking closely at the two towers, as well as at Related’s project.


Mosler and Jeremiah Larkin, senior vice president and director of leasing at Brookfield, ticked off the advantages of the site, including the South Tower’s 90,000-square-foot floor plates, the largest of the six competing projects. Insiders also noted that the platform will be just 2.6 acres (compared to roughly 8.6 acres on Related’s site), so it will be easier to construct.

“We have the best location,” Larkin said, noting the project is just a block from Penn Station.

But the tradeoff is that the project will receive tax breaks of only 25 percent, compared with the more generous 40 percent decrease for projects west of 10th Avenue.

Mosler and Larkin would not reveal the asking rent, saying only that the rents would be “competitive.”
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Tax breaks are only one benefit.
Image and prestige are also very important elements.

This complex will be located to the west of the iconic Empire State Building.
What this means is that prospective tenants will enjoy the front row on the Midtown skyline while also having the Empire State Building behind them.

Print THAT image on your business cards!
     
     
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Tax breaks are only one benefit.
Image and prestige are also very important elements.

This complex will be located to the west of the iconic Empire State Building.
What this means is that prospective tenants will enjoy the front row on the Midtown skyline while also having the Empire State Building behind them.

Print THAT image on your business cards!
I'm sure that plays a part, but any reasonably tall building in the city will have a pretty stellar view of the ESB unless it's view is somehow obstructed by another building.

We're all the way in lower Manhattan, probably about 600 feet up (give or take) and have a spectacular view.

I think the most important things for tennants are:

1) The right amount of space.
2) The right floor plans for your company (trading floor, etc)
3) Transportation
4) Amenities in the building/area for your employees

I'm sure somewhere in there is prestige of your location, but I think for most companies at the end of the day finding a workable space for their business to grow is far more important than a snazzy view of an office building.

I have friends that work in WFC and they absolutely hate it. It is by all rights a nice complex, but it's cut off from the rest of lower Manhattan, a 15 minute walk from the subway and one of the tennants keeps imposing security measures that cuts them off from the food court which is mostly vacant at the moment anyway.
     
     
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It would be a huge boost if this project and Related's towers could both get off the ground in Hudson Yards. Would be much more of an established neighborhood for future tenants. Time Warner sounds serious about moving into the area, hopefully they take the bait!
     
     
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We've gone from a 66-story tower and a 60-story tower to a development that now has two towers over 60 stories, plus a tall residential tower. We could very well end up with two supertalls or even three depending on how tall the residential will be. This development will close an open "hole" in the middle of Manhattan and be a neighbor to the just starting Hudson Yards towers, one of which will be above 1,300 ft.

If that's uncool, a lot of places would like to have it.





Nice shot.
What does Hudson Yards have to do with this? Originally, this was billed as a competing development with Hudson Yards, not filler that closes a hole. Hudson Yards is amazingly impressive. To me, every time we get a new render the project looks less impressive to me both in height and design. Right now I am saying I doubt either one of these ends up as a supertall, but only time will tell. So far I am batting 1000 with predictions for super tall development in Manhattan.
     
     
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What does Hudson Yards have to do with this?
This is also the Hudson Yards. Don't confuse Related's railyards development with the city's own Hudson Yards redevelopment (which it is a part of).

As it was originally adopted a few years ago, this would be sites 729 A & B.

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Eh I don't really mind that there are now 3 slightly shorter towers, If they have a better design that the others and still break 300 meters this is still a good development.
     
     
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Media Giant Eyes Headquarters Move From Columbus Circle to Hudson Yards.



NY REAL ESTATE COMMERCIALMay 8, 2013, 9:17 p.m. ET.
By LAURA KUSISTO and ELIOT BROWN

Time Warner Inc. TWX -0.63% is leaning toward moving its roughly 1 million-square-foot headquarters to a fledgling office district on Manhattan's far West Side, according to a person briefed on the company's plans.

Time Warner intends to make a decision in June, the person familiar with the matter said.

The move to the Hudson Yards area by a major media company now located in a prestigious office tower near Central Park would boost the city's drive to transform an area now marked by rail yards and warehouses into a modern district of office and residential towers.

Time Warner executives previously have said the move would help it consolidate employees from 15 buildings. It would also give the company the chance to freshen its image as a cutting-edge media and entertainment company that can compete for young employees with hip tech and media start-ups.



Coach Inc. COH +0.79%helped spur the Hudson Yards' redevelopment in late 2011 by agreeing to take 600,000 square feet at a Related Cos. tower at 10th Avenue and West 30th Street. But that move was more modest than that contemplated by Time Warner, because Coach's headquarters were just a couple of blocks away.

"The next tenant is an important moment for the district because it starts to build real momentum with tenants from other parts of the city. Coach was already there. We also need tenants to have this willingness to relocate and spend money to move," said Derek Trulson, a broker at Jones Lang LaSalle, JLL -0.68%who represents Extell Development Co. in leasing its site in the area.

Time Warner could choose one or multiple West Side locations, likely from sites owned by Extell, Brookfield Office Properties, BPO.T -0.10%Joseph Moinian and Related Cos.

The company has toured these sites looking for about 1.3 million square feet, and company leaders and consultants have had multiple meetings with developers and brokers, according to people familiar with the matter. These people said the company had signaled it was narrowing the search to the West Side.

Time Warner is also leaning toward selling its 1.1 million-square-foot Columbus Circle headquarters—which is expected to fetch more than $1 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter. It expected to have a buyer by the end of May, the person said...

Time Warner has been a candidate for moving west since it met more than two years ago with Related executives about their Hudson Yards development....

Time Warner has 6,500 full-time employees and occupies 4 million square feet in the New York area. It moved to Columbus Circle a decade ago—when that area had a more dated atmosphere—and anchored the development of the two-pronged tower overlooking Central Park. It also leases space for HBO at 1100 Sixth Ave. and 1271 Sixth Ave. for Time Inc.

Time Warner would move most of the divisions in its Columbus Circle site to Hudson Yards, including executive offices and potentially CNN, according to people familiar with the matter. It would also move HBO....
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the new massing model looks rather tall.
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the south tower with 3.2mil sq ft will indefinably be over 400m, if its not ill be shocked
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the south tower with 3.2mil sq ft will indefinably be over 400m, if its not ill be shocked
That's the old version. The new towers will be roughly 2 msf.
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That's the old version. The new towers will be roughly 2 msf.
it was published a few days ago that it had like 2m on the north tower 3.2m on the south..i didnt pull those numbers out of my ass
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