"Green" Office Building Tops Out Above The High Line

Mann Report Volume 1, Issue V11

The Meatpacking District's signature luxury office tower, The High Line Building at 450 West 14th Street, one of the only buildings to offer an office or retail tenant direct frontage and access to the High Line, has topped out above the elevated park.

Developed by CB Developers and designed by Morris Adjmi Architects to LEED Gold standards, the building features 100,000 square feet of office space on 11 floors, as well as high-profile retail space at the base of the park's main entrance. Fashion tenant Helmut Lang has already leased two full floors of office and showroom space at the building, which is expected to be completed Fall 2009, according to the developer.

"Having been involved in the evolution of the Meatpacking District for 10 years now, it gives me great pleasure to have topped out on schedule and in concurrence with the opening of the High Line park. I believe the two will transorm the Meatpacking District once again," said CB Developers Founder Charles Blaichman, who was an early pioneer in the neighborhood, having developed 29-35 Ninth Avenue, the home of Soho House and Spice Market, the Theory building at 40 Gansevort Street; and 415 West 13th Street, where Estee Lauder subsidiary Bumble and Bumble has its corporate headquarters.