Gary LaBarbera, President of Building and Construction Trades Council of New York; Tracey Charles, Local 79; Bonita Oquendo, Local 46; Rob Speyer, President and CEO, Tishman Speyer; and Peter Davoren, President and CEO, Turner Construction Company, from left to right, sign the steel beam for the topping out of Tishman Speyer’s The Spiral office tower, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, on the West Side of Manhattan. (Credit: Diane Bondareff)
Tishman Speyer President and CEO Rob Speyer was joined on Tuesday by Gary LaBarbera, President of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, Peter Davoren, President and CEO of Turner Construction Company and a group of trade partners to celebrate the official topping out of The Spiral, Tishman Speyer’s 1,031-foot-tall office tower currently under construction on the West Side of Manhattan.
Once it reaches completion in 2022, The Spiral will feature a cascading series of landscaped terraces and hanging gardens as its signature element. The terraces will ascend, one per office floor, in a spiraling motion to create a unique, continuous green pathway that wraps around the façade of the tower. The BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group-design ensures that each tenant on every office floor will have access to lush outdoor terrace space.
Tishman Speyer has already pre-leased 51 percent of The Spiral’s 2.8 million square feet of modern collaborative office space.
Pat Di Fillippo, Executive Vice President, Turner Construction Company; Peter Davoren, President and CEO, Turner Construction Company; Rob Speyer, President and CEO, Tishman Speyer; and Gary LaBarbera, President of Building and Construction Trades Council of New York, from left to right, stand for a photo as the top structural frame steel beam is raised and set at the topping out of Tishman Speyer’s The Spiral office tower, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, on the West Side of Manhattan. (Credit: Diane Bondareff)
Pfizer, the premiere biopharmaceutical company that recently co-developed the first Covid-19 vaccine approved for use in the U.S., will move its global headquarters to 746,000 square feet across 14 floors of the 65-story tower. Renowned law firm Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is also relocating its headquarter to 13 floors totaling 531,000 square feet, while AllianceBernstein has committed to 166,000 square feet across three-and-a-half floors for its New York City offices.
“The Spiral represents the ideal collaborative workspace, now more important than ever, combining sustainable design with an elevated hospitality experience,” said Rob Speyer. “The continued rise of The Spiral is a testament to our vision and optimism for New York City’s future. I am grateful to Gary, Peter and their teams for partnering with us on a plan that kept their members working and construction on schedule, while also safeguarding everyone’s health and well-being over the past year.”
“The milestone reached today is a testament to the hard-working union men and women of New York City, who – despite the extraordinary challenges of the past year – have gone above and beyond to get the job done,” said Gary LaBarbera, President of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York. “With the success of this project and the value that a union workforce brings to construction projects more clear than ever, we look forward to building and expanding upon the relationship with Tishman Speyer on future projects. The topping-off of The Spiral is yet another sign that New York’s future will always be bright.”
Located at the intersection of the High Line and the four-acre Bella Abzug Park, The Spiral will encompass a full block stretching from West 34th to West 35th Streets and from 10th Avenue to the park.
The Spiral, which is being built to a LEED Gold Standard, will feature soaring ceiling heights complemented by floor-to-ceiling windows and expansive views of Midtown, Central Park, the Financial District and the Hudson River. The six-story base of the building will include a lobby with ceiling heights of up to 28 feet and entrances on Hudson Boulevard East and 10th Avenue. The base also will include approximately 25,000 square feet of first-class retail.
In addition to Tishman Speyer, Turner and BIG, other integral project team members include Adamson Associates, WSP, Cosentini Associates, Heintges Consulting Architects & Engineers, Langan and Siteworks.
Additional building details and renderings can be found at www.thespiralny.com.
Tishman Speyer remains one of New York City’s most active developers with multiple recent and ongoing commercial and residential projects in three boroughs. In addition to The Spiral, Tishman Speyer is creating 630,000 square feet of modern office space across the upper floors the historic Morgan North building at 341 Ninth Avenue in Manhattan’s West Chelsea district.
Other notable recent construction projects include The JACX, a fully-leased, 1.2 million square foot office project in Long Island City and The Wheeler, a ten-story vertical campus rising above Macy’s historic Downtown Brooklyn department store. Tishman Speyer’s recent residential development projects include Jackson Park, a 1,900 unit luxury rental development that opened in 2018 in Long Island City, and 11 Hoyt, a 480-unit condominium tower that is nearing completion in Downtown Brooklyn.
About Tishman Speyer
Tishman Speyer is a leading owner, developer, operator and investment manager of first-class real estate in 28 key markets across the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America. We develop, build and manage premier office, residential and retail spaces for industry-leading tenants, as well as state-of-the-art life science centers through our Breakthrough Properties venture. With global vision, on-the-ground expertise and a personalized approach, we are unparalleled in our ability to foster innovation, quickly adapt to global and local trends and proactively anticipate our customers’ evolving needs. By focusing on health and wellness, enlightened placemaking and customer-centric initiatives, such as our tenant amenities platform, ZO., and our flexible space and co-working brand, Studio, we tend not just to our physical buildings, but to the people who inhabit them on a daily basis. Since our inception in 1978, Tishman Speyer has acquired, developed, and operated 453 properties, totaling 210 million square feet, with a combined value of approximately $113 billion (U.S.). Our current portfolio includes such iconic assets as Rockefeller Center in New York City, The Springs in Shanghai, TaunusTurm in Frankfurt and the Mission Rock neighborhood currently being realized in San Francisco.
