Re-cladding work is nearing completion at 20 Hudson Yards, a partial retail-to-office conversion in Hudson Yards, Manhattan. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and developed by Related Companies, the project involves the repurposing of the top three levels of the Shops & Restaurants at Hudson Yards mall into a 445,000-square-foot office for Wells Fargo. The conversion will accommodate a capacity of 2,300 employees, allowing the financial institution to consolidate most of its New York workforce into one location, along with the nine stories it also occupies at 30 Hudson Yards. The property is located along Tenth Avenue by the intersection with West 31st Street.
Almost all of the new glass curtain wall has been installed since our last update in March, when crews were beginning to remove the wavy exterior of perforated metal panels from the broad eastern elevation. The blank inner walls were subsequently dismantled, and the exposed superstructure was temporarily boarded up before the new floor-to-ceiling windows were set in place. Recent photos show the new glass envelope and framework of black mullions largely in place, along with a section of horizontal louvers on the third story. Some of the angular metal trim is still awaiting completion around the southern end of the building.
Below are two interior images looking up at the top of the mall’s multistory atrium, where the fifth floor has been sealed with a glass wall for Wells Fargo’s office space. This space formerly featured an open-air overlook.
One of the last outstanding finishing touches on the Tenth Avenue exterior is the addition of red Wells Fargo signage over the entrance and angled louvers. The renderings above and below highlight the new signage from street level.
Wells Fargo also plans to display large-scale signage on the glass atrium wall on the opposite western face.
The office space will feature access to landscaped terraces overlooking the Hudson Yards public plaza and the Vessel. Amenities are planned to include a food hall with a rotating local restaurant program and an all-day coffee bar.
The mall interiors were originally designed by Elkus Manfredi Architects and first opened in March 2019. Wells Fargo is taking over the vacated space formerly occupied by the Neiman Marcus department store, which closed in the summer of 2020. Since that time, the final stories have been largely closed off to the public.
Wells Fargo is expected to relocate all employees from its current offices at 150 East 42nd Street to Hudson Yards upon the completion of the converted retail space, which is slated for this fall.
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This complex continues to devolve into a more deeply, disjointed hodgepodge. The constant shortcomings: A dreary plaza forever cast in shadow (even at the height of Summer). The Shed, which promised to infuse art and life by literally opening itself to performances on the plaza, seems forever tightly sealed from the elements (even during the height of Summer). Lastly, the plaza, which instead of cafes and mingling people, insists upon being a shopping mall’s car drive and a dead zone hosting the Vessel. Were it not for the High Line and clean bathrooms, the completely unspectacular shopping mall would be a ghost town.
Here’s to looking forward to iteration # 3
This is complete bullsh*t and totally untrue. I live at One Hudson Yards 2024 was the busiest year for the mall (so far). Do you not remember the gray Neiman Marcus facade that literally didn’t have a single window? You think that looked less disjointed than this new GLASS curtain wall that went up between 10 and 30 Hudson yards?
Have you also not seen the mall this past summer and winter? It was filled with tourists and visitors from top to bottom and out in the active plaza between the Olympics and Christmas.
“Forever cast in shadow..” is a complete lie and exaggeration on your part, as much as a NINBY complaining about the shadows over Central Park from the Billionaire’s Row supertalls.
try actually visiting the area before you try to make a rant about something that’s filled with baseless claims and false evidence.
I don’t think you actually have been to the shopping mall. It’s always pretty packed. There just are too many rich people
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It’s obvious you never set foot in the mall or anywhere in Hudson yards in the last year. Nice try bro
Hopefully people will get back to the office to keep this area from being a ghost town.
You must not be from around NYC. Midtown is bursting at the seams. Hudson Yards is very busy. People are in the office, especially in trophy office space.
Retail vacancies are lower than ever in NYC. Don’t fall for propaganda by property owners.
Stunning! This new facade makes it look like it was the original design intention for the mall and blends well with all the other glass towers
My first of just a couple visits to this mall was the surprise it was multi-level which has been proven not to work well the higher up you go. It also had that same smell all malls have. Auntie Ems? It just proved again that this whole project is for tourists and the bridge and tunnel crowd.
lol im one of those demographics 🙋♀️😂, I brought my whole family from Long Island to see the Edge in December. But like yeah it’s always busy by the entrance the Edge and shake shack, people sitting on the floor and was hard to walk around curing Christmas. And soon there will be an Eataly next to it
I’m typically through Hudson Yards twice a week. The mall is just tourists looking for the bathrooms or for that One-n-Done pics of the Vessel. The shed has its hands full, featuring low-quality exhibits that can fill its rooms. And yes, with the exception of a few hrs during the mid-Summer months, ALWAYS in a shadow or darkness. The plaza remains barren (excluding tourists who walk about, then disappear. Hudson Yards was poorly designed and laid out when it first opened. It only continues to go sharply downhill, in the years since.
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It will be an employee transfer, that will not cause any disappointment at all: Thanks.
Yeah I live a block from there. It’s been packed the last year. Ghost town no longer.