The site covers a full city block, bordered by Hudson… The latest attempt met with success. announced that it was opening large offices. Disney lands in Hudson Square. Disney, Silverstein Properties (which is developing the building), and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill have unveiled the first batch of renderings for the media conglomerate’s new HQ, known as 4 Hudson Square. Dr. William Lupfer, rector of Trinity Church Wall Street. In 2016, Hines was selected as the operating partner for Trinity Church Wall Street and Norges Bank Real Estate Management’s portfolio of 12 office buildings in Hudson Square comprising approximately 6 million square feet of commercial space. On the Upper West Side, neighbors frequently complained about the crowds that lined up outside, filling sidewalks, to see “The View” and other shows. Demolition on the site’s existing buildings has already begun, and the firms expect that the new Disney HQ will take about four years to complete. City Winery, a winery and performance hall at 155 Varick since 2008, was forced out last summer. Mr. Viñoly moved his firm to near the South Street Seaport last summer. Ad agencies, fashion companies and tech start-ups, drawn by cheap rents, have flocked to spaces in prewar towers with thick floors and tall ceilings, but not all of them have lasted. When the Walt Disney Company announced in 2018 that it would leave its longtime home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan for a former manufacturing district downtown named Hudson Square, some people may have scratched their heads. For security, sidewalk bollards will ring the property, Disney and ABC signs will be limited, and there will be no street-level, glass-walled TV studio. Disney, Silverstein Properties (which is developing the building), and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill have unveiled the first batch of renderings for the media conglomerate’s new HQ, known as 4 Hudson Square. Efforts to remake the 30-block, wedge-shaped neighborhood, once considered West SoHo, intensified after the 2009 formation of a business improvement district, a quality-of-life-focused nonprofit organization funded by landlords. Most of the buildings on the site were demolished by last month. The Walt Disney Company is the latest media conglomerate to pack its bags for a Lower Manhattan move. The structure will top out around 320 feet, with two smaller towers rising from a 10-story base (for a total height of 22 stories, including mechanicals). Disney’s new home, 4 Hudson Square, is taking shape across an entire city block in Lower Manhattan. After acquiring a full block in Hudson Square for $650 million last year, Disney has released renderings of its new 1.2-million-square-foot headquarters at 4 Hudson Square. And the main stage will include five wood beams from his old Hudson Square location; Disney salvaged 30 beams and donated them to Mr. Dorf. “It’s all kind of coming together,” said Brett Greenberg, an executive managing director of Jack Resnick & Sons, whose 10-story office building in a former JuJuBe candy factory is one of the places where Google will open offices this month. In July 2018, Disney paid $650 million for the rights to develop 4 Hudson Square into a new, 19-story company headquarters with “East” and “West” buildings to be designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill. The company’s owner, Michael Dorf, said that when he learned that his vintage brick building would be demolished, he was in the middle of a Trinity-approved expansion that wound up costing him almost $3 million. Last July, the media company purchased the rights to develop the property at 4 Hudson Square from Trinity Church One of just three office tenants, the company is taking 85 percent of the 483,000-square-foot building. Set to open in 2024, the new structure is being designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill. Disney is selling the New York City buildings, currently the headquarters of ABC News, to a real estate developer who’s expected to demolish them in order to build luxury condominiums. And now, one of the biggest new buildings in the area—the Walt Disney Company’s new headquarters, taking over the site of what was once City Winery—is getting ready to rise. Disney then signed a 99-year lease on the Hudson Square site for $650 million.