New renderings have been revealed for Related Companies and Wynn Resorts’ $12 billion mixed-use gaming complex proposal for the second phase of Hudson Yards. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the complex would consist of multiple skyscrapers housing 1,500 apartments, 2 million square feet of office space, a public grade school, a 5.6-acre park called Hudson Green designed by Hollander Design and Sasaki, and a daycare center. The new batch of towers would rise directly west of the first phase of Hudson Yards over the 13-acre Western Rail Yards bound by West 33rd Street to the north, West 30th Street to the south, Eleventh Avenue to the east, and West Street to the west.
The main aerial rendering above shows the entire scope of the second phase from over the Hudson River. Each of the three proposed supertall skyscrapers features a distinct design with a different massing, façade, and crown. The areas between the towers are shown populated with lush greenery and public walkways facing the High Line.
The below renderings depict the low-rise Wynn Resorts casino and adjacent lawn from various angles, emphasizing the building’s flowing design, curved metallic surfaces, and landscaped terraces and roof deck. The first two images look east toward Thomas Heatherwick’s Vessel sculpture, the third looks west toward the Hudson River, and the fourth shows the casino from the intersection of Eleventh Avenue and West 33rd Street.
Rendering courtesy of Related Companies and Wynn Resorts.
Rendering courtesy of Related Companies and Wynn Resorts.
Rendering courtesy of Related Companies and Wynn Resorts.
Rendering courtesy of Related Companies and Wynn Resorts.
A dog run and a rock-climbing wall are among the outdoor facilities shown flanking the High Line at the base of one of the supertall skyscrapers.
Rendering courtesy of Related Companies and Wynn Resorts.
The following renderings look east and west along West 30th Street showing new ground-floor retail space beneath the High Line and garden beds along the sidewalks between Eleventh Avenue and West Street.
Rendering courtesy of Related Companies and Wynn Resorts.
Rendering courtesy of Related Companies and Wynn Resorts.
Wynn Resorts’ 80-story, 1,189-foot supertall skyscraper would be positioned along the northern end of the rail yards by the corner of Eleventh Avenue and West 33rd Street, near the Jacob K. Javits Center and the northernmost terminus of the High Line’s third phase. The symmetrically tapering structure, vaguely reminiscent of Kohn Pedersen Fox’s Lotte World Tower in Seoul, is planned to yield 2.7 million square feet with 1,750 guest rooms along with a conference center, retail, and restaurant space. The Wynn hotel signature is displayed on the southern face of the sloping crown.
To the south across the central public park is a 1,366-foot supertall office skyscraper clad in a glass curtain wall with tubular pleating on its northern and southern elevations. The third supertall, an 1,172-foot-tall residential skyscraper, would sit directly to the west of the tallest component and features the most distinctive design, beginning with a base of massive cylindrical columns straddling the High Line that fan out into a multifaceted rectangular massing culminating in three stepped volumes.
The below renderings were among the first batch released from our last update in March.
Rendering courtesy of Related Companies and Wynn Resorts.
Rendering courtesy of Related Companies and Wynn Resorts.
Rendering courtesy of Related Companies and Wynn Resorts.
Rendering courtesy of Related Companies and Wynn Resorts.
Rendering courtesy of Related Companies and Wynn Resorts.
“Finishing the undeveloped yards will not only create 35,000 unionized construction jobs during development, but 5,000 permanent union careers in the resort, which is the economic engine that supports all of these wonderful community benefits, including the affordable housing, public park, and transportation improvements,” said Bruce Beal Jr., president of Related Companies.
The closest subway from phase two of Hudson Yards is the local 7 train with the southernmost entry found between 50 and 55 Hudson Yards.
It remains to be seen which of the various proposed New York City casino sites will end up securing the three gaming licenses up for bidding by the state. The winning developers are expected to pay at least $500 million in upfront license fees to operate the casino. The state Gaming Commission is expected to award licenses by December 31, 2025.
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Build it!
In your A$$
Seriously what the actual fuck is with you Mayor Kenny and all the childish condescending remarks about you/some random person you don’t know online being fucked? It’s complaint, after complaint, after complaint, and nothing good has ever come out our your mouth or ass when you always shit on the comment section…
there are a lot of sore losers on this website who keeps complaining about tall (especially glass) buildings being built or ugly brick buildings getting demolished to make space for more energy efficient modern buildings
JK, I just hate how delinquents like Mayor Kenny contribute nothing on the site and never put in the effort to create a mature discussion in the comments. He doesn’t deserve free speech and is a rage-baiting piece of shit.
Mayor Kenny, do you ever manage to put together a coherent sentence or question without sounding like an incessant man-child?
Another cheap, crude and trashy remark from you Mayor Kenny, what else can you expect from a harebrained scumbag…
How about the affordable housing that was required to even build the first phase that is being omitted? We just give billionaires everything they want and they never have to hold up their end huh?
They are the ones paying all the taxes and fees that maintain the city.
Well. developers did get $5 billion tax breaks in exchange for the promise. And some tenants like Blackrock got tax breaks for moving there.
any links about facts checks? Build more somewhere else, not in the most expensive metro city in the US if not the world
You are onto something, yeah? What an idea, I think it would be wonderful
to abandon a city to the Uber rich and lock them in. It’s a sociology experiment. Provide all the euphoria those people tend to like. Unfortunately, most teachers, health care works, restaurant staff, store staff and many others will be on the outside. Then maybe you’ll realize how preposterously wrong you are. Let’s get this going today!
Yea why don’t you go to a Ferrari store and ask them if 30k car is available for purchase
Yeah dude, totally not the point. Are you stoned or just lacking in grey matter?
So you’re basically saying the tax payers have to subsidize low income housing even more than what they’re doing now?
Build it now!
Looks great. Build it.
Bravo. Bravo. Bravo. Go for it… Near cruise ships, great subway connection, already super popular tourist site, connects to High Line, M 34 bus connect. If there ever was a perfect fit, this is it. Easy walk to Times Square, PENN STATION, new connection with The Bridge, Moynihan Station. Everything screams HERE HERE HERE.
Those proposed parks may prove tempting to the “residents” of Penn Station.
The Highline is really ramping up its astroturf campaign against this proposal, as if any Phase 2 wouldn’t also block the views from the park.
This looks amazing! Of all the locations.m for a casino, Hudson yards makes the most sense. Being in Manhattan, close to midtown, but not directly in the center with heavily congested streets and sidewalks like the proposals for Times Square or by the Lincoln tunnel, and not far away from mass transit like the proposal next to the UN. Would be nice to cater to people visiting the Javits for conventions, and tourists that visit hudson yards. And definitely better than making people travel all the way to Coney Island;way too far and would feel the same sense of isolation as Atlantic City
this is so insanely nice that i’d take a casino for it
😂
Shortsighted sheeple comment
Quite lovely.
I am not necessarily against the Casino but if you compare the new plans (which conveniently are not shown here) with the approved plans, it shows that there is much less housing and much less green space. Go back to what was Approved.
The green space is more or less the same amount in fact I believe there is slightly more green space with the “casino option” why are you making up your own facts when they can be easily disproven?
Why does it include/need to include conference space with the Javits Center right next door? What would be the impact to Javits if the additional conference space is included?
Hosting more than one event in the same area at the same time for different crowds?
It’s very common and beneficial to have large hotels with additional conference space near large convention centers. It provides additional space for evening receptions that take place during a major convention.
That might be the only thing about this proposal that is logical. However I prefer the casino prposal that would be directly west of Javits Center by Silverman.
They should revovate the High Line. It’s 1930s appearance doesn’t conform to the contemporary architectural style of this new complex.
that would defeat the purpose of reviving the High Line in the first place
Ridiculous comment. The HighLine is the constant in all the development along it’s path. The cheesy Hudson Yards towner designs are just “flavor-of-the-day” conceptuals that will be value-engineered down to on a par w/ Hudson Yards, Phase I — Nothing at all memorable, aside from “The Shed”.
“Conforming” is overrated, leave the High Line as is..
This may be the goofiest comment of all
It’s time to double number of middle income housing units developer is offering . Also give no tax incentives it cost billions last time. Yet very few subsidized housing units built. Residents in NYC making $100,000 are not able to afford the city.
Living outside of Manhattan is not the kiss of death.
Yea it’s like asking Ferrari to produce 40k cars
Metaphor? More like Metathree.
You drones have zero taste. Go back to the suburbs in which you came from.
It’s beginning to look like Moscow City…
Fantastic plan and design, from the drawings here – agree that a casino is worth the price of entry for this!
The price of entry for what? A park that is guaranteed regardless? Open your eyes this is a scam.
The license should be predicated on the 1,500 apartments, grade school, and park opening before the casino can.
Didn’t they pull this argument to get the zoning for the first phase of Hudson Yards? Schools, apartments, ra ra ra?
Yet another dystopian vision for New York. Just like Dubai, Singapore or Hong Kong.
Wake up there and try to figure out where you are. It certainly isn’t New York.
If not here, then where? Most of the other proposed sites won’t work such as the Silverstein proposal just north of Hudson Yards, right next to the Lincoln Tunnel entrance! Can you imagine the congestion nightmare?! Godspeed with the approval process for the Related/ Wynn proposal!
Wonderful, build it!
Goofball
I’d be jealous of our friends in Jersey who’d now have a nice view of Hudson Yards. Now we just need to hide the buildings on the other side.
What beautiful has already been mentioned: Thanks to Michael Young.
I love how the design of the podium of the Wynn resorts tower integrates itself with the new park and high line
I know Wynn=gold, but one of these things is not like the other…. Haters of Hudson Yards may disagree…
It all looks shiny and impressive, but I think a casino – regardless of how it looks – is not the right thing for Manhattan. Put it closer to the airports, and get the developer to pay for a better way into the city from LGA. Manhattan is already too congested.
No casinos! There are plenty of other ways to raise money. Tax the rich, sell city land, sell air rights, and property tax reform!
Huh? The “rich” are already taxed!! (Just go look at a tax-rate table and notice how tax rates increase as income increases, and how little low-income earners pay.) And what does “property tax reform” mean?
You should be taxed more.
Looks nice in the pics but the reality is that anything in NYC will turn to garbage within a few months to a year. People have no respect for this city and the city governments don’t take care of anything. Btw tearing down the old buildings to make these glass futuristic buildings in some cases is a mistake. When you go to Europe you see old buildings and it’s nice to see a glimpse into the past but in today’s world we are constantly forced to forget the past and it’s not always the right choice. All the excuses they use for these changes aren’t always as dire as they claim. Many times someone is getting paid and that’s the real reason.
No casinos in the area, they belong on Times Square or Coney Island.
Goofball comments as far as the eye can see. This site will be developed with a beautiful park regardless…this gaudy casino covered in plants is a cheap laughable illusion. We need low income housing (which was formally promised) not drunken clowns stumbling around turning Hudson yards into the next Times Square
Could it be possible to see ‘all’ the different proposals together here ?
Nobody’s talking much about transportation. Would most casino-goers take the subway? And if they did, the current 7 line is not adequate. I’m afraid this thing would paralyze the entire West Side. And wasn’t the original concept for Phase 2 of Hudson Yards to be of lower-density, lower-height buildings tapering to the sea. Times Squaare would be a better idea. At least it’s already a world-destination entertainment center well-served by transportation.