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What recession? The NY Times reports that developer Extell, the Greater New York Hospital Association, and investor Israel Green are teaming up to build a "60-story glass-and-steel tower on the West Side of Manhattan that would function as an international showcase and permanent conference center for the hospital industry." What's more, they think the building called the World Product Centre, which be located on 11th Ave. between 33rd and 34th Streets (where the Copacabana was) and would open in 2013, would be the anchor for the Hudson Yards. The partners claims the health care industry is, as the Times puts it, "recession-proof, since people always get sick." Still, with estimates are $500 million to $1 billion for construction, Community Board 4's Land Use Committee Chair Anna Levin said, "It may not be a stupid idea, but at this point I think it’s kind of an isolated idea, wrapped up in a whole bunch of uncertainties."
Plans for a 60-Story Hospital Industry Tower at Hudson Yards
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Another case of sudden jihad:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/student_kills_prof_nGgR2x0Omat9UDx4
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A new glass-and-steel tower?
How innovative- just the thing to keep New York architecture on the cutting edge- right next to Wichita and Sacramento...
"Recession-proof since people always get sick"? That's so sick!
Didn't St. Vincent's get the go ahead to demolish the O'Toole Building based on the claim that it was the only hospital game in town for the lower west side. Downtown Hospital is building near City Hall and now this. Maybe the new St. Vincent's tower isn't needed. Maybe the Greenwich Village Historic District need not take the SVH hit. Maybe it's time to rethink the SVH project unless of course, it was all about cash for the Rudins all along. If the officials who back Saint Vincent's don't think so, maybe Rudin political contributions are influencing the decision making. Could this be the case?
^ Dude, this proposal isn't a hospital. But if you start having chest pains, go in there anyway and see if they can't sell you the latest in orthopedic stabilization technology.