Brookfield to launch massive entertainment venue at Manhattan West

Brookfield Properties

Move over, Vessel — Brookfield’s Manhattan West, which is taking shape just east of Related’s Hudson Yards, has signed its own cool venue to entertain office workers, residents and tourists.
But it will be horizontal, not vertical.
Brookfield has lured Elemental, a hospitality and “experience design” firm, to launch a 10,000 square-foot entertainment and dining venue at the 8-acre Manhattan West site, The Post has learned.
Led by a multi-disciplinary team from the hospitality and design worlds, it will include an eating/drinking venue and an intimate theater for what are described only as “innovative musical experiences,” “elegant magic” and “immersive” events. It will open in early 2021 on the north side of the public plaza in the heart of the complex.
“We will be combining immersive entertainment technologies of the 21st century with the elegant designs of old New York variety theaters,” said Elemental partner Warren Adcock. Also on board are Brooklyn Bowl co-founder Charles Ryan and Lilia restaurant partner Josh Cohen.
The six-building, 7-million-square-foot Manhattan West, bounded by Ninth and 10th avenues and West 31st and 33rd streets, has been overshadowed by Hudson Yards.
But it’s at last coming into focus. A plywood fence around most of the complex is coming down piece by piece, revealing some of what’s already up and under construction.
Barriers recently came down on Ninth Avenue, exposing the entrance to soaring One Manhattan West — the 2.1-million-square-foot office tower where tenants such as Skadden, EY and the NHL will start moving in this year.
A second office skyscraper, Two Manhattan West, will soon rise, following last week’s signing of law firm Cravath as its anchor tenant. To make room for the tower’s central core — it’s on top of an active rail yard, remember — Brookfield had to move an electrical substation and a signal cabin and replace 25,000 tons of rock with concrete. Steel will start to rise early next year.
Meanwhile, apartment tower Eugene’s 844 units are 96% leased. The Hotel Pendry, a luxury inn with a unique wavy facade to open in 2021, has also taken shape. Next on the way are a 60,000-square-foot Whole Foods and a 35,000-square-foot Peloton store, both due in the second quarter of 2020.
Later that year will come a major Danny Meyer restaurant and a 2-acre public landscaped plaza that will include an NHL-programmed seasonal ice rink.
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