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In New York, the neighborhood of the future is growing | Ideas for Montreal

Hudson Yards in New York is the largest real estate project under construction in North America. A technical feat imagined to counter the lack of available land in Manhattan, which could inspire Montreal.

A text by Etienne LeblancTwitterEmail

A whole new neighborhood will be born, on the border of Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen, on the banks of the Husdon River, in western Manhattan. The Hudson Yards complex will provide 1.2 million square meters of living space. The places will be occupied mostly by offices, but there will be everything:

  • 5,000 apartments;
  • a 5 star hotel;
  • 7 storeys of shops;
  • 5 office towers;
  • a cultural center;
  • a school for 750 pupils;
  • a park of 30,000 square meters.

To do this, the City changed the zoning of a huge area, between 30th and 43rd Street, and between 10th Avenue and the Hudson River.

The six towers are built largely on stilts. Two huge concrete platforms that will serve as a plinth will be built above the yard for trains destined for Penn Station. Thirty railways will thus be covered, even where the wagons which transport the thousands of people who commute between New Jersey and Manhattan Island morning and evening.

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