Exterior work is complete on the Urban Empowerment Center, a 17-story mixed-use building for the National Urban League at 117 West 125th Street in Harlem, Manhattan. Designed by Beyer Blinder Belle and developed by L+M Development Partners, The Prusik Group, Taconic Investment, and BRP Companies, the 414,000-square-foot structure will yield 70,000 square feet of Class A office space, 110,000 square feet of retail space, 170 affordable housing units, and the Urban Civil Rights Museum, the first museum in New York dedicated to civil rights. The property is located between Malcolm X Boulevard and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard.
National Urban League president and CEO Marc H. Morial led a media event on February 20 to mark the construction milestone, offering tours of the under-construction interiors.
Current interior of the Urban Empowerment Center, courtesy of the National Urban Leauge
Tenants will include One Hundred Black Men of New York, United Negro College Fund New York, and Harlem’s Jazzmobile. The retail spaces are slated to be occupied by Target, Trader Joe’s, Sephora, and Pandora.
The property is located steps from the 2 and 3 trains at the 125th Street station.
The Urban Empowerment Center is expected to complete construction in 2025.
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What a mess.
Beautiful building, just wondering where parking is going to be…
Beautiful construction. Many Black buisness will be available to the Harlem community.
I can feel the “empowerment” already!
How is something so positive a “mess”?
Harlem has made fantastic progress in the 23 years since the terror attacks that devastated the WTC .
From Columbia University up the hill to the west to the next leg of the 2nd Avenue subway, tons of new housing much of it more affordable than most of Manhattan and Brooklyn, Harlem is a sweet destination full of great restaurants and cultural offerings. There’s still lots that need improving like the fight against crime but I say BRAVO Harlem!
Ignore the haters and nay sayers, they’re jealous.
Hopefully they will redo the sidewalk and curb and plant some trees like the rendering.
Convenient place.
I was born in Harlem and I’m excited that we were included in the Mess.
A 17-story mixed-use building and its interior is stuck in my brain, so it’s already possible: Thanks.
This was slated to be available for the Harlem community in 2023 then there was silence pushed to be open in 2024, now this article is saying 2025. It’s a beautiful thing! However, I believe it when I see it!!! I’ve been waiting… for Trader Joe’s grand opening!
It seems or seemed like citizens or people of society wanted Trader Joe’s there, this is what is wanted I think?