Continuing our Turkey Week rundown of on-hold projects in New York City is Three Hudson Boulevard, a planned 56-story office skyscraper in the Hudson Yards district. Designed by FXCollaborative and developed by Boston Properties and The Moinian Group, the $3 billion project was planned to rise 940 feet tall and yield 1.86 million square feet of office space, but has been stalled since early 2020. The property occupies a full city block bound by West 35th Street to the north, West 34th Street to the south, Bella Abzug Park to the east, and Eleventh Avenue to the west.
Recent photos show the reinforced concrete foundations built to street level, with the stunted core walls at the center of the lot enclosed beneath a protective layer of dark wooden boards. Construction fencing remains standing around the property’s perimeter, though all machinery has long since been removed.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Meanwhile, the area surrounding Three Hudson Boulevard has been built up with several newly completed and upcoming office, residential, and hotel skyscrapers such as The Spiral by Bjarke Ingels Group, 50 Hudson Yards by Foster +Partners, The Set and Coterie at 451 Tenth Avenue by Handel Architects, and a forthcoming Aloft Hotel at 450 Eleventh Avenue by DSM Design Group.
If Three Hudson Boulevard resumes construction, it would rise directly west of The Spiral as seen in the below photograph, providing tenants with panoramic views of the Hudson River.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Three Hudson Boulevard’s ground floor was planned to house a 40-foot-tall lobby with casual food and beverage options, a sky lobby on the second floor, and column-free office floor plates above. Floors three through seven were to span 50,000 square feet each, while some levels would provide ceiling heights of up to 30 feet.
A view of the 29th floor of Three Hudson Boulevard. Rendering courtesy of the Moinian Group.
Office workers would have convenient access to the 34th Street-Hudson Yards 7 train station, which is situated directly east of the base.
Rendering of plaza at Three Hudson Boulevard. Designed by FXCollaborative.
The following scale model photographs offer additional detail in the skyscraper’s design.
Three Hudson Boulevard. Designed by FXCollaborative.
Three Hudson Boulevard. Designed by FXCollaborative.
Three Hudson Boulevard. Designed by FXCollaborative.
Three Hudson Boulevard. Designed by FXCollaborative.
No potential resumption date for Three Hudson Boulevard has been announced.
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NEW YORK IS SINKING MORE AND MORE AND SO MUCH CONSTRUCTION GOING ON. MORE AND MORE BIGGER STRUCTURES THE BRONX IS BUILDING EVERY WHERE POSSIBLE.
The world has changed since this foundation was laid and it’s more than past time to rethink this project as residential, not commercial.
Maybe. To date, the office towers at Hudson Yards have dramatically outperformed the residential towers.
Why was there money for all the other buildings, but not this one?
Anchor tenants.
The other towers were built by different developers. Also, it’s brutally difficult to obtain construction financing for office buildings right now. They probably need to secure an anchor tenant first.
Hudson Yards development will span into decades, and hopefully that means the now monotonous and repetitive blue/silver glass boxes will not continue. Even the Spiral is a dull, boring one-trick afterthought. The delay with 3 Hudson Blvd offers an opportunity to rethink the design and use, as it will likely drag on for years to come.
Awww….so they cant jam another soulless glass box into the lifeless mix that is Hudson Yards? Yes, maybe the office part is somewhat thriving, at the expense of other Manhattan buildings, but it still is an awful place to spend non-essential time. The tourists can only support this eyesore to a point.
Hote with housing. Office is a waste, but the area is desperate for hotels given Javits location. Oh wait the city shot itself in the foot with the special permit required for hotels.
I see that my comment from yesterday was deleted. Baffling and sad how thin-skinned and fact-averse you are, but I suppose it’s a sign of the times.
Oops, wrong thread. My bad, apologies. Happy Thanksgiving!
Maybe if the cheap one-trick-pony devs invested in quality architecture with better materials a proper cityscape and neighbourhood would emerge…
It wouldn’t look like a blue-box borg built city on a mobile Sims game inhabited by people with no souls. Then people actually might want to work/reside in Hudson Yards instead of the dystopic Robocop looking nightmare it currently is?!