Exterior work is nearing completion on Hotel Meta, a 51-story hotel skyscraper at 450 Eleventh Avenue in Hudson Yards, Manhattan. Designed by Moshe Tzur Architects and DSM Design Group and developed by Marx Development Group, the 642-foot-tall structure was last reported to yield 379 guest rooms operated by Marriott, but the hotel pulled out of the deal in 2022. The development will also feature amenities including a business center, a ballroom, banquet and conference spaces, a spa, fitness center, and a multi-level restaurant with a bar and outdoor terrace. The property is located at the corner of West 37th Street and Eleventh Avenue, directly across from the Jacob K. Javits Center.
Nearly all of the remaining glass and paneling have been installed across the exterior since YIMBY’s last update in mid-February, when several gaps remained at the southwestern corner where the hoist was formerly anchored. All of the windows are now in place over the angular superstructure on the main western and northern elevations, with black soffits covering the undersides of the protruding edges.
Additional exterior work has progressed on the podium levels, including a two-story metal-framed volume along Eleventh Avenue where the base of the hoist was located. The three round columns framing the outdoor terrace have also been wrapped in gray metallic cladding, while the rest of the glass railings on the podium rooftop were installed. Meanwhile, the blank eastern and southern lot line walls have been finished with a solid black color painted across the flat windowless surface intended to be covered by future abutting skyscrapers at some point in the future.
450 11th Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
450 11th Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
450 11th Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
450 11th Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
450 11th Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
450 11th Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
450 11th Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
450 11th Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
450 11th Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
450 11th Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
450 11th Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
450 11th Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
450 11th Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
450 11th Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
450 11th Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
Work is now focused primarily on the ground floor, where construction is taking shape behind the sidewalk fence.
450 11th Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
450 11th Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
Marx Development Group is completing construction with the help of $185 million in refinancing, including an $89 million senior loan from Madison Realty Capital, a $44 million mezzanine loan from Cerberus Capital Management, and EB-5 financing. The property was formerly planned to open under the Aloft branding.
The nearest subway from the ground-up property is the 7 train at the 34th Street-Hudson Yards station to the south at Bella Abzug Park.
A revised completion date has not been announced, but YIMBY expects work to conclude sometime in the first half of 2026. A new hotel operator has yet to be confirmed.
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How about that 51 story blank black wall. There oughta be a law against that.
AGREE!
They’re lot line walls meant to (eventually) be covered when buildings get built around this one.
Yeah, except there are a ton of these grotesque sky scraping blank walls on buildings with acquired air rights so there will never be an abutting building remotely high enough to cover their brutal ugliness.
At least the developers made a good effort painting it black and giving it some treatment. Unlike other projects around the city (98 DeKalb Avenue for example) where they left a huge concrete wall blank.
I agree with Eric. I was feeling the same concern with The Paxton in downtown Brooklyn before they eventually covered the two blank concrete walls with the metal panels that are there today. I live across Flatbush Avenue and see it from my window
Whst no pool? lol
This is just insane, and of course there is no completion date! 8 years in and no end in sight…why not do some real reporting YIMBY and explain to the folks who have looked at this unfinished project for so long, with that awful blank wall facing midtown – what’s really going on here!?
Stop beating a dead horse, Stanley.
Of course of all people, YOU had to comment again Stanley, just like you always do in every update about this project. Some sick unhealthy obsession you got…
Stop being such a fucking retarded shithead and do something more useful with you pathetic life. How about telling the world what do you have against Yimby and this building in particular every time they cover it? They’re not doing anything wrong, unlike your urge to talk shit & lies
He dips, disses, then bails before anyone can call him out. Bro is a lil punk a$$ b!tch and weak af
We all know you know the answer to the blank walls Stanley. You’re just trying to mock Yimby (again) with another one of your rounds of heckling on this project (again). You need some help dude.
How does this building actually affect your life, Stanley? Why does it offend you so? Why do you expect it to be completed on your time line? Just get over it, man!
Those are blank lot line walls Stanley. Yimby has explained them multiple times in previous articles. Why do you keep implying they didn’t, and why do you keep bashing them, and this project about it? Have you never seen a lot line wall before???
Hey Stanley, why don’t you stop being such a coward and actually answer back? Trying to talk shit and dippin out makes you look like such a fucking pussy
You are ‘just insane’ Stanley. I see you copy pasting the same “why not do some real reporting YIMBY…” wording like you did in earlier YIMBY articles about this building. Sounding very desperate for attention, and you certainly got it with all the backlash from other commenters 🤡 🤡 🤡
Stanley, every time you open your mouth to shame Yimby and this project, it’s as tiresome and deluding as Trump blabbing about a new tariff. Hope you are not as demented as him.
Stanley, the article clearly states at the end of the third paragraph the following:
“Meanwhile, the blank eastern and southern lot line walls have been finished with a solid black color painted across the flat windowless surface intended to be covered by future abutting skyscrapers at some point in the future..”
I suggest you read it again before you make a fool of yourself like you did this morning. It shouldn’t be so hard to read a simple one-page article.
Stanley, what’s so bad about this article that you have to make such a degrading remark? Do you live nearby the building or something and take out your frustration on Yimby? Seems like you’ve also done the same in the past, according to all these other commenters.
Keep your mouth shut next time Stanley
Stanley, you could have taken all the time you wanted to come up with something intelligent to say, and this is the best you could do?
After reading the comment section for the article on 655 Madison Avenue, I searched this article after several commenters pointed out about this person named Stanley. I have to say:
1) Yimby clearly explained the blank wall situation in one of the paragraphs.
2) Stanley, you are the one that’s provoking people with your repetitive complaints, both here and earlier articles about this project.
You’re creating problems out of thin air and tell other people it’s their fault. Why the hypocrisy??
Glad this is finally almost done after all these years. Hopefully some new buildings go up around it soon and we don’t have to see those huge blank walls
What Kiera said , above.
100% agree.
Build the L building around the blank walls asap. Who owns that site?
If you have photos, why do you lead with renderings? Isn’t there some point in the actual construction when the rendering becomes, if not superfluous, a promotional tool?
Then scroll past it 🤦🏽
Otherwise, renderings are useful visualsfor idiots like that nutcase Stanley in his comment above
Every time Yimby covers this project, there’s always a high probability we will hear from the notorious commenter Stanley. It’s like clockwork every single time.
Nice photos by the way Mr. Young! Don’t let Stanley’s pathetic comments get to you
You know, I kind of don’t mind the blank wall. I actually see it everyday. And yes, I know it’s a lot-line wall to be covered by another building someday. Pretty interesting project. Should be nice when completed.
In the profile photo the building resembles a cheese grater.
I was thinking of a cactus.
I can see that.
Totally.
I agree, I find the blank wall a ‘soothing’ counterpoint to the frenetic glass..both work for me.
Me too. Good contrast in textures and colors.
The U.N. Building has two blank walls. Looks OK.
Or 33 Thomas Street, or the Verizon Building by the Brooklyn Bridge
I agree that the solid black is a visual break from the surrounding glass canyons. A creative alternative would be to assign the black “canvas” to the Bushwick Wall art Collective and empower it to work its magic!
My guess “Stanley”, if that is really his name, cannot see that blank wall from his mother’s basement anyway. YIMBY has addressed the why several times but let’s turn the perspective on reality around. Were the developer to build windows in a party wall then some unsuspecting dunce, like “Stanley” would assume they are going to have that view forever and sign their business into a 10 year lease only to find out is is disappearing and his co-workers will be working in a cave for the next decade…that is why.
Why did Facebook build a hotel?
I appreciate the article. If only the glass wrapped fully around.
Feels like an eyesore.