10 Hudson Yards, also known as the South Tower, is an office building that was completed in 2016 on

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's West Side. Located near

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, Chelsea and the Penn Station area, the building is a part of the Hudson Yards urban renewal project, a plan to redevelop the

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's West Side Yard. Coach New York is the anchor tenant. During planning, the tower was known as Tower C.

History

Construction

Hudson Yards, conceived through a large master plan by Kohn Pedersen Fox, is expected to consist of 16 skyscrapers containing more than of new office, residential, and retail space. Among its components will be of commercial office space, a retail center with two levels of restaurants, cafes, markets and bars, a hotel, a cultural space, about 5,000 residences, a 750-seat school, and of public open space. 10 Hudson Yards, the first building on the site, is expected to help draw visitors to the area. 10 Hudson Yards 31 March 2016

Groundbreaking for 10 Hudson Yards occurred on December 4, 2012, with a provisional completion date of 2016. Foundation work continued through the first half of 2013 and the superstructure work began on the tower in August 2013. During excavation work, of soil was removed and of concrete was poured. The contract to construct the tower was awarded to a subsidiary of Tutor Perini in March 2013. The tower is the first tower in the Hudson Yards complex to have been completed, because it is the only Hudson Yards tower not on the artificial platform over the West Side Yards. , 10 Hudson Yards had risen more than . , 10 Hudson Yards was 27 stories tall. , thirty-two of the tower's 52 floors had been completed. , 10 Hudson Yards had topped out. The tower was opened on May 31, 2016, with the first 300

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employees moving into the building. As of November 2022, 10 Hudson Yards was the 49th-tallest building in the United States. The southern facade of 10 Hudson Yards cantilevers over the 30th Street spur of the

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, and one of the building's entrances is to be located on the High Line. The architectural firm who designed 10 Hudson Yards was Kohn Pedersen Fox. Thornton Tomasetti was the structural engineer;

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performed the MEP engineering; and Langan served as lead civil engineer. In January 2019, the developers unveiled a long sculpture by American artist

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for the west lobby.

Occupancy

The first tenants were signed in April 2013. The building is anchored by Tapestry, Inc.'s global headquarters, which covers on floors 9 to 24 within the tower. Coach's space includes a 15-story atrium, double height conference rooms overlooking the

, a private cafeteria, and a large terrace with views of the

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. Coach was the first tenant to move into the new building on May 31, 2016. In September 2017, Coach subleased of space to The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. In total, the building was designed to accommodate over 7,000 employees. Additional occupants include L'Oreal USA,

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, SAP, and Intersection occupying , and , and respectively. VaynerMedia occupies the building's 25th floor. There will also be

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space at street level adjacent to the retail building immediately to the north of 10 Hudson Yards. That building will be designed by Elkus Manfredi Architects. Fairway, a locally based grocer, was expected to build a store in the lower floors of the building, occupying . Additionally, Spanish chef José Andrés will operate a food hall named Mercado Little Spain which will contain a wine bar, a cocktail bar, and 15 kiosks serving different kinds of

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. An outpost of fast casual salad restaurant Sweetgreen opened in August 2018 in the base of the tower.

Ownership

10 Hudson Yards was initially owned by the master developers of the Hudson Yards project, Related Companies and Oxford Properties, in partnership with the

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. Various sections of the tower were sold to tenants as office condos, with Coach purchasing their space for $750 million prior to construction. In August 2016, Coach sold their stake in the tower to

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for $420 million. The deal gave Allianz 44% ownership and valued the building at $2.15 billion. In May 2018, the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio purchased roughly 20% of the tower for $432 million at a similar valuation.

Gallery

File:Hudson Yards South Tower May 2013.jpg, May 2013 File:10 Hudson Yards June 2014 2.JPG, June 2014; close-up of 10 Hudson Yards columns on eastern facade File:500 W 30th Street from west Sept 2014.jpg, September 2014; Abington House is to the right File:10 Hudson Yards New York NY 2014 09 02 03.jpg, September 2014, from 30th Street File:West Side Yard from High Line.jpg, September 2014, from far west side of the site File:10 Hudson Yards east facade Dec 2014.jpg, December 2014 File:10 Hudson Yards 4 Oct 2015.png, October 2015 File:Mattern-hudson-yards-3.jpg, April 2016 File:Hudson Yards May 2017 47.jpg, The completed 10 Hudson Yards (on the right) with 30 Hudson Yards still under construction (on the left) as of May 2017 File:10 Hudson Yards Completed.jpg, February 2019

References

External links

Hudson Yards

New York City project website

Related Companies project website

Animation: building the platform while trains run through
Brookfield properties, via Gothamist.com
Hudson Yards news and developments
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