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NYC’s One Vanderbilt Tower Hits 99% Leased as New Tenant Signed
Financial-technology firm FIS signed a lease for a spot at SL Green’s Midtown skyscraper in New York.



ByNatalie Wong
September 15, 2022


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SL Green Realty Corp.’s One Vanderbilt tower near Manhattan’s Grand Central Terminal is almost fully leased after a deal with Fidelity National Information Services Inc.

Financial-technology firm FIS signed a 25,488-square-foot (2,368-square-meter) lease for the entire 62nd floor at the skyscraper, according to a statement Thursday. The $3.3 billion tower is now 99% leased.
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One Vanderbilt, standing at 1,401 feet (427 meters) and spanning 1.7 million square feet, has drawn tenants across the finance sector since opening in the depths of the pandemic. Companies including MSD Partners, an investment firm tied to billionaire Michael Dell’s family office, and Carlyle Group Inc. have previously signed leases for space at the skyscraper.

Manhattan office buildings have been seeking to lure tenants as more employees return to the office. Private equity firm Blue Owl Capital Inc. recently signed a lease for space at Park Avenue’s landmark Seagram Building, and Truist Financial Corp. will shift employees to a new spot in Hudson Yards.

Buildings near Grand Central will soon have more commuting options. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to open its East Side Access project, which will connect Long Island Rail Road trains with Grand Central, in late 2022.
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It’s the most magical time of year! The @GrandCentralNYC Holiday Fair is back, and #SLGreen is excited to be a part of this year’s event. Visit our booth now through December 24th to learn more about the @One_Vanderbilt and @SummitOV experience.







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One Vandy featured in an Economist article on "the rise of the uber-luxurious office":

One Vanderbilt, a 93-story skyscraper with a sparkling “hall of light” observatory at its top, is among a spate of new trophy properties and renovated buildings offering interiors and services akin to those at elite private-members clubs.
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One of the World’s Cleanest New Skyscrapers Collides With the Future
One Vanderbilt, in the heart of New York City, is built to be especially climate friendly. But the design landscape and city rules have changed quickly.



By Ben Ryder Howe
Feb. 14, 2023


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One Vanderbilt, a commanding new skyscraper in the heart of Manhattan, seems to be reaching for the future. One of the world’s tallest buildings, it pierces the sky like an inverted icicle and fuses seamlessly with an expanding network of trains and other transport at its foundations.

It is also the rare skyscraper designed with climate change in mind. It holds a self-contained, catastrophe-resilient power plant capable of generating as much energy as six football fields of solar panels. The building captures every drop of rain that falls on it, and reuses that runoff to heat or cool its 9,000 daily visitors.

“It’s a commercial-grade science project,” said Jonathan Wilcox, a director of engineering at SL Green Realty Corp., the company that owns it.
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But One Vanderbilt is also something else. It is already out of date.

Some of the building’s most important green features were the right answer to the climate problem in 2016, when design work was completed. “And then the answer changed,” Mr. Wilcox said.

Unlike many skyscrapers, One Vanderbilt generates much of its own electricity. This was a leap forward a decade or so ago — a way of producing power that saved money for landlords and was cleaner than the local grid.

However, One Vanderbilt’s turbines burn natural gas. And while natural gas is cleaner than oil or coal, it is falling from favor, particularly in New York City, which in recent years has adopted some of the most ambitious climate laws in the world, including a ban on fossil fuels in new buildings.

As that transition happened, SL Green was caught in the middle. Although One Vanderbilt went up relatively quickly, topping out after three years, its owner had to watch as the city’s environmental strategy raced forward.
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The 77-story building, 20 years in the making, sits just west of Grand Central Station. Given its marquee location and remarkable ambitions, it opened in 2021 to less fanfare than one would imagine. At the time, the pandemic was raging and few were in the mood to celebrate a new office tower.

Since then, One Vanderbilt has garnered its share of acclaim, thanks to a popular viewing platform and the transformation of a congested block of Vanderbilt Avenue at the foot of the building into a car-free pedestrian plaza. The skyscraper’s underground plaza is an integral part of East Side Access, merging with the decades-in-the-making nexus of connections between Long Island Rail Road and Grand Central Station, which finally opened last month.

But the building’s flashiest components lie hidden from public view.

On the roof, 1,300 feet above midtown, cooling towers the size of a Brooklyn brownstone evaporate warm water pumped a quarter-mile skyward, discharging a haze similar to that of a football player removing his helmet in February. Like almost everything in One Vanderbilt, the process isn’t wasted. After losing its heat, the water is sent back downward to cool off machinery dozens of floors below.
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On a recent morning, Mr. Wilcox and a trio of engineers huddled on the roof, their backs to the sort of knee-buckling view that tourists pay hundreds of dollars to experience from a helicopter. Nearby, five giant fans inside the cooling tower, each the size of a small windmill, quietly spun, recycling energy through the building.

One Vanderbilt is an example of a new type of office building in which sustainability is front and center in luring tenants, who want to be assured that in addition to enjoying views all the way to the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge and proximity to world-class sushi, their carbon footprint won’t tickle their conscience.

The truth is that most buildings in New York, big or small, old or new, are bad for the environment. Boilers and furnaces burning fuel in basements are the city’s single largest producer of carbon dioxide, emitting more than double the amount from millions of cars and trucks traveling its roads.

…… because of the rapidly evolving energy-policy landscape, driven by increasing global concern over climate change, even the most ambitious attempts at sustainability often find themselves facing the possibility of retrofitting the moment the elevator doors open. One Vanderbilt is one such case.
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One Vanderbilt presented the company with a rare opportunity: blank, prime real estate in the heart of Manhattan, with a flood of natural light (meaning less need for electric lights) thanks to neighboring Grand Central — a low-rise, landmark building — and the fact that 42nd Street to its south is a hefty five lanes wide.

Being just steps from the country’s second-busiest train station added to the sense of opportunity. SL Green spent $220 million on transit improvements near the building, partly because of the company’s belief in putting “density where density belongs,” said Mr. Holliday.

One striking aspect of One Vanderbilt’s design is its storm water reclamation system. All the rain that touches the skyscraper’s terra-cotta and glass facade is transferred to a pair of giant concrete bathtubs and pumped to the cooling towers above.

“Everything that falls on us reaches our roof,” said Mr. Wilcox. Some runoff is evaporated, but much is used to cool the building’s power plant or is recirculated throughout the building. So far, none has been released into the sewer system, an added benefit in a city where sewers can be overwhelmed by heavy rainfall.
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One Vanderbilt’s power plant creates electricity as well as hot water. The generators are hidden some 39 floors in the sky, in a windowless room halfway up the tower. “If you’re a gear head, this is awesome,” Mr. Wilcox said, opening a soundproof door.

Immediately, the sound went from a skyscraper hush to the din of an airport runway. Inside stood a shipping-container-size box holding a microturbine — effectively, a jet engine. A control panel showed it spinning at 61,000 revolutions per minute. Five more turbines throbbed nearby. Colorful pipes snaked off in every direction.

The building’s efficiency, compared to the lumbering machinery of old, has helped One Vanderbilt fill a wall with sustainability awards.

Still, the pace of change has accelerated.

“In the nineties and the aughts the energy grid was pretty dirty,” said Fiona Cousins, a mechanical engineer with Arup, a British firm involved in designing many New York buildings. As coal and oil were phased out, energy efficiency became the goal, she said, and natural gas fit the bill.

But then, “people started getting really interested in climate change,” Ms. Cousins said, putting broad new emphasis on hydropower, wind and solar instead of burning a fossil fuel like gas.
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Landlords such as SL Green say New York City’s new laws will force dramatic changes. Unlike energy codes of the past, one of the key laws, which restricts pollution, doesn’t merely apply to new construction: Existing buildings, no matter how small or how old, must gradually comply and retrofit as well, potentially at eye-watering cost.

Like SL Green, all New York landlords will be forced to look into an uncertain future and face stark choices.

For now, the future of New York’s office towers can be seen at 270 Park, a half-finished behemoth rising a few blocks north of One Vanderbilt. It will have no gas line at all. When it opens, it will be the city’s greenest skyscraper ever, owing to the city legislation banning use of fossil fuels in new construction — rules that didn’t exist when One Vanderbilt was being conceived.

The law, passed in 2021, is new enough that the city, in fact, is still working out the details of how it will be enforced. “In recent weeks, we have reached several important milestones on the implementation of this law,” said Laura Popa, deputy commissioner for sustainability at the Department of Buildings. Ms. Popa expected more rules to be added “later this year.”
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Mr. Wilcox of SL Green supports the city’s efforts to make buildings cleaner, saying that an all electric future “makes sense.” Meantime, One Vanderbilt has welcomed its new tenants. Deep underground, an expanded transit hub rivaling an airport concourse recently opened next door. And dozens of floors above, the building’s powerful turbines twirl in the sky.

Will those turbines eventually end up being replaced with something else? “To be determined,” Mr. Wilcox said.
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