Construction is steadily moving along on the Stephen and Christine Schwarzman Animal Medical Center, a ten-story veterinary hospital at 510 East 62nd Street in the Lenox Hill section of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed by Perkins + Will, the $100 million non-profit project will add 11,000 square feet to the existing 26,000-square-foot, 63-year-old structure. Turner Construction Company is the general contractor for the property, which is bound by the East 62nd Street to the north, East 61st Street to the south, FDR Drive to the east, and York Avenue to the west.
The expansion’s steel-framed superstructure was about to top out at the time of our last update in late July of 2022. Work has since shifted to the installation of the new curtain wall, which has begun to enclose the lower levels of the southern elevation. Gray rectangular paneling is also in the process of covering some of the blank walls on the western face.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Below is the former iteration featured in last year’s YIMBY update that still retained a portion of the old mid-century cladding on the lower levels. The final design has this replaced with a modern glass curtain wall with stripes reminiscent of animal print.
The Schwarzman Animal Medical Center. Expansion designed by Perkins + Will.
The facility will add four additional operating rooms, tripling the animal hospital’s trauma center capacity, as well as a doubling of the scope of the intensive care unit facilities, an expansion of the neurology center, a new primary care suite spanning 1,100 square feet, and a special care unit with a dog run on the third floor. There will also be new recovery and minor procedure room, an ophthalmology suite, a renovated first-floor lobby, and more conference space for postgraduate veterinary training within the fourth and fifth floors’ 5,500-square-foot expansion. All of the upgrades are projected to increase the capacity to 100,000 patients, families, and staff per year.
The Animal Medical Center is the largest non-profit animal hospital in the world and is being funded by Stephen and Christine Schwarzman, the Langone and Tisch families, and Annette de la Renta. Other contributions include $5 million gifts from Elaine Langone, Katharine Rayner, Emilia Saint-Amand Krimendahl, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, Chris and Bruce Crawford, along with hundreds of public donations.
The nearest subways from the site are the Q and F trains at the Lexington Avenue-63rd Street station, which features a transfer to the 4, 5, 6, N, R, and W trains at the Lexington Avenue-59th Street station.
The Stephen and Christine Schwarzman Animal Medical Center is expected to be finished sometime by the middle of next year.
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This project gets 4 paws up! 🐶😺