
^ "30 Hudson Yards, New York City - ". ^ "30 Hudson Yards Office Space - Hudson Yards". It was opened to the public on Novemand is the highest open-air building ascent in the world. In October, it was announced that 30 Hudson Yards would host another attraction dubbed “City Climb at Edge” which allows visitors to ascend an outdoor staircase located at the top of the tower's crown. Įdge opened to visitors on March 11, 2020, and temporarily closed two days later due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. There is also a grand outdoor staircase on the east side of the deck. Edge also features a 225 sq ft (20.9 m 2) glass triangle in the floor which looks down to the street 1,131 ft (345 m) below. Visitors can lean into the nine-foot (2.7 m) high clear glass barricade slanted 6.6 degrees outward to safely check out the street and rooftops below. It is the second tallest outdoor observation deck in the Western Hemisphere, after Skywalk in Madeira, and the second highest observation deck in New York City, after One World Observatory.
Edge contains a cantilevered outdoor terrace jutting 80 feet (24 m) outward south of the building on the 100th floor, providing panoramic views of Manhattan and the Hudson River.
The building features an 1,100-foot-tall (340 m) outdoor observation deck known as "Edge", located on the 100th and 101st floors. The building's lobby will contain artwork by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa consisting of 11 stainless steel spheres hanging from the ceiling, meant to represent global unity and cultural diversity. WarnerMedia's space features amenities including a cafeteria, a fitness center, a two-level auditorium and cinema and an outdoor deck. Originally planned to be 1,337 feet (408 m) tall, the building was later downsized to 1,295 feet (395 m) tall, making it still the development's tallest building. Kohn Pedersen Fox was chosen for the design of the building.
19Z: Don Lemon Tonight, Erin Burnett OutFront, Fareed Zakaria GPS. 19Y: At This Hour, CNN Tonight, New Day, Quest Means Business. 17N: CNN Newsroom, Early Start, Reliable Sources. Discovery, Wells Fargo, The Shops & Restaurants at Hudson Yards (retail), Jack's Stir Brew Coffee In June, KKR took out a $490 million mortgage from Deutsche Bank on their office condominium space. The partners financed the purchase with a 10-year, $1.43 billion commercial mortgage-backed security interest-only loan from Deutsche Bank, Wells Fargo, and Goldman Sachs. One month later, WarnerMedia executed a leaseback and sold their space to Related and Allianz for $2.2 billion after signing a 15-year lease for 1.5 million square feet (140,000 m 2). WarnerMedia's office condo included more than 1.4 million square feet on floors 16 through 51 and represented approximately 60 percent of the 90-story tower with 2.6 million square feet. In January 2019, WarnerMedia hired Douglas Harmon and Adam Spies of Cushman & Wakefield to find a buyer that would sell their office condominium and allow the company to lease it back-known as a sale-leaseback. The observation deck was nearly complete by mid-2018. Construction of the observation deck at the top of the tower began in April 2018. By January 2016, the structure's first few aboveground floors were already complete. In mid-2015, Related received a $690 million loan from Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and CIBC which allowed construction to start. The company would occupy half the building, below the 38th floor. Discovery) announced its intention to move most of its offices to 30 Hudson Yards, vacating its current headquarters at the Time Warner Center, also owned by Related, at Columbus Circle. In 2013, Time Warner (later WarnerMedia, and now Warner Bros. was awarded a US$510 million contract to build the platform. On December 12, 2013, it was announced that Tutor Perini Building Corp. The platform is rested on caissons that are drilled underground into the solid bedrock known as Manhattan schist. Early construction work focused on building a platform to cover much of the Eastern Rail Yard, for much of Phase 1 to sit upon and to allow the Gateway Rail Tunnel project to pass underground with a clear path. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on December 4, 2012.