Construction on TSX Broadway has reached a significant milestone with the completion of the historic Palace Theatre’s lift to its new position 30 feet above street level within the podium of the 47-story Times Square hotel tower. The engineering challenge was overseen by Urban Foundation and Engineering and used a system of 34 hydraulic jacks to hoist the 14-million-pound venue at a speed of about a quarter of an inch per hour over the span of four months. Work will now commence on PBDW Architects‘ restoration of the theater, whose new elevated position will make way for 100,000 square feet of retail space at the base of the structure.
Designed by Perkins Eastman and Mancini Duffy and developed by L&L Holding Company and Fortress Investment Group, TSX Broadway will yield 550,000 square feet with a 669-key hotel, restaurants, and a cantilevering outdoor performance stage that overlooks Times Square. Pavarini McGovern is the general contractor for the project, which is located at 1568 Broadway, at the corner of Seventh Avenue and West 47th Street.
Façade work continues to progress steadily on the tower since our last update in February, when the superstructure had just finished topping out. The floor-to-ceiling curtain wall is now most of the way to the flat parapet, and could likely wrap up installation by the summer. The framing for the crown has taken shape, the slim blank eastern wall is being layered with various external materials, and all of the safety cocoon netting has been removed.
TSX Broadway. Photo by Michael Young
TSX Broadway. Photo by Michael Young
Signage publicizing the theater’s lift above West 47th Street shows a finger pointing at the 30-foot mark, indicating completion of the task.
TSX Broadway. Photo by Michael Young
TSX Broadway. Photo by Michael Young
TSX Broadway. Photo by Michael Young
Outside the theater, work continues on the steel framework that will hold together hundreds of LED panels for the L-shaped screen covering the first few floors of the tower. This display will match the scale of the LED billboard on the Times Square EDITION hotel directly across West 47th Street, and add to the density of dazzling signage that line the Crossroads of the World.
TSX Broadway. Photo by Michael Young
TSX Broadway. Photo by Michael Young
TSX Broadway. Photo by Michael Young
TSX Broadway. Photo by Michael Young
TSX Broadway. Photo by Michael Young
TSX Broadway. Photo by Michael Young
TSX Broadway. Photo by Michael Young
TSX Broadway. Photo by Michael Young
TSX Broadway. Photo by Michael Young
TSX Broadway. Photo by Michael Young
YIMBY last reported that TSX Broadway is aiming to debut sometime in early 2023.
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Crews can build among chaos below, luckily viewed when you step backward from its site. A person who designs so artful, as well as a person who makes plans: Thanks to Michael Young.
All this to have a couple of cheesy fast food restaurants at street level?
We don’t even know what is going to be in the retail space, yet here you are profiling and assuming the worst of a project that’s not even finished. Such disrespect and shame on you!!! Why don’t you do what everyone else is doing and wait until it’s done and not be so arrogant and pompous?
Scott, you may be right – when completed, this structure might be fine architecture…but if the completely clumbsy and graphically “ugly” TSX glued on the south facade is any indication of the sophistication and refinement that this structure is bringing to the cityscape, I think there’s no reason to wait…..
Back in the early 1970s, I took a tour of the new Broadway theaters led by their architects. Everyone was astonished by the regulations governing theater construction that govern even the back of seat heights among many other things. While these new places had been encouraged by the city and developers rewarded with more floors, the architect of the Minskoff said that the project was probably not worth it in retrospect. Preserving an old theater that is grandfathered makes more economic sense.
Is there a time-lapse video of this ?
Ignore those who build nothing.
some of us make design and build(ing) decisions all day long….and make comments that consider the context, materials, budgets and abilities of the designers and the developers. Mediocrity lasts a long time in a multi-million dollar development that is under-cooked or not fully thoughtfully designed.