NEW YORK | One Grand (76 Varick St) | FT | 28 FLOORS

[NYguy]

One Grand is exactly what I wanted 175 Park to be called.

[Busy Bee]

^Terminal Tower is a excellent runner up IMO.

This proposal looks terrific BTW, but no way should it get built without NYCTA getting an elevator to make the Canal St IRT station accessible*. And like every development that is station adjacent, I would like to see those flood vulnerable street stairs removed and tucked into the base of the new development. I have no idea why this just isn't city and MTA policy at this point.


*This could be done in conjunction with reopening the cross-under with a platform elevator on the southbound side so a second ground level elevator wouldn't be necessary across Varick.

[NYguy]

Nice to see SHoP on another project in the city, but I'm not a fan of the roof. A building of this height and design should have a flat roof, or at least one not angled in the way this one is. I think it takes away from the design.

Of course, it could just be the angle of the rendering. Still don't like it. Haircut!

[Busy Bee]

^I'm assuming that angle is parallel with Grand.

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by Busy Bee

^I'm assuming that angle is parallel with Grand.

Probably so. Doesn't matter though, I still don't like it. It should be flush with the rest of the tower.

[Hudson11]

this is a rebrand of 2 Hudson Square

Good to hear its still in development. One of the few sites that can produce a sizable highrise after the neighborhood was hit with a height limit.

[NYguy]

https://nypost.com/2026/08/09/business/one-grand-office-tower-to-rise-in-nycs-hudson-square/

State-of-the-art One Grand office tower to rise in Hudson Square





By Steve Cuozzo
Aug. 9, 2026

With a mere 12 million square feet, Hudson Square might be the city’s most in-demand subdistrict.

In the former printing-house zone bounded roughly by Clarkson and Canal streets to the north and south and between West Street and Sixth Avenue, leasing volume soared from under a half-million square feet in 2024 to more than 1.5 million so far this year.

The boom is reflected in Disney’s new Manhattan headquarters at 7 Hudson Square, Anthropic’s just-inked lease for all of 330 Hudson St., Google’s purchase of St. John’s Terminal and PayPal’s 261,000 square-foot lease at 345 Hudson St./555 Greenwich St.

Tech, AI and media firms, Hudson Square’s favorite tenants, are expanding all over town.

So why after a year of marketing are Taconic Partners and leasing agent JLL still without a tenant for the planned One Grand, a state-of-the-art, 430,000 square-footer at the corner of Grand and Varick streets?

Simple, according to Kristen Morgan, part of the JLL team: tenants want their growth space now. “They want butts in seats right away,” Morgan said. One Grand will take 36 months to build.

“Two years ago, you couldn’t get arrested in Hudson Square,” Morgan joked. “Now it’s the hottest neighborhood in the city.

“Tech was quiet for a while after COVID, but once people realized how easy it was to get there from uptown, Brooklyn and New Jersey, it took off,” she said. The JLL leasing team also includes Mitchell Konsker, Matt Astrachan, Peter Riguardi and Clark Finney.

Taconic president/COO Colleen Wenke said One Grand doesn’t necessarily need an anchor tenant to start construction. “We’re trading paper” with a number of suitors, she said, noting that the building “has the capacity to bring tenants the neighborhood’s only new, purpose-built space.”

One Grand will have features that especially appeal to tech firms, including open floor plates, views from large windows, 20,000 square feet of outdoor space, a roof deck and expansive amenities spaces.

Morgan said asking rents average $185 per square foot. She called the project “perfect for tenants who want to create their own environments within the building.”

“It just ends up being a timing thing,” she said.

[ChiND]

The Greatest City in the World!!!

[mrnyc]

well, luckily i was recently able to get some pix of the east facing view that will be lost from the roofdeck of one hudson next door --