Deutsche Bank Center
Deutsche Bank Center (also known as One Columbus Circle and formerly the Time Warner Center) is a mixed-use building on Columbus Circle in Manhattan, New York City, United States. The building occupies the western side of Columbus Circle and straddles the border between Hell's Kitchen and the Upper West Side. It was developed by The Related Companies and Apollo Global Management, and designed by David Childs and Mustafa Kemal Abadan of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
This article is about the building at Columbus Circle, formerly known as Time Warner Center. For the structure known as the Time Warner Building from 1990 to 2001, see 75 Rockefeller Plaza. For other uses, see Deutsche Bank Building (disambiguation).Deutsche Bank Center
- AOL Time Warner Center
- Time Warner Center
One Columbus Circle
Completed
Mixed-use
1 Columbus Circle,
Manhattan, New York, U.S.
November 2, 2000
2003
February 5, 2004
$1.8 billion
750 ft (230 m)
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Deutsche Bank Center features twin 750-foot (230 m) towers, connected by a multi-story atrium. The building has a total floor area of 2.8 million square feet (260,000 m2). It contains office space, residential condominiums, the Mandarin Oriental, New York hotel, and the Jazz at Lincoln Center entertainment venue. The Shops at Columbus Circle shopping mall is placed at the base of the building, with a large Whole Foods Market grocery store on the lower level.
The building was built on the site of the New York Coliseum, formerly New York City's main convention center. Plans for the project, then known as Columbus Center, were approved in 1998. Construction began in November 2000 and a topping-out ceremony was held in 2003; the project was known as AOL Time Warner Center during construction, but the "AOL" name was dropped before opening. Time Warner Center officially opened on February 5, 2004. Deutsche Bank replaced WarnerMedia as the anchor tenant of the 1.1-million-square-foot (100,000 m2) office area in May 2021 and it was renamed Deutsche Bank Center.
Site[edit]
The center is on the west side of Columbus Circle, on the border of Hell's Kitchen and the Upper West Side, in Manhattan, New York City.[2][3] It occupies an irregular plot of land bounded by 60th Street to the north, the Coliseum Park apartment complex to the west, and 58th Street to the south. The eastern boundary consists of Eighth Avenue, Columbus Circle, and Broadway from south to north. The land lot covers 149,560 square feet (13,895 m2), with a frontage of 519.03 feet (158.20 m) on Columbus Circle and a depth of 492 feet (150 m).[2] Deutsche Bank Center's primary address is 1 Columbus Circle.[4] The building also uses the addresses 25 Columbus Circle for its south tower and 80 Columbus Circle for the north tower.[5]
The building is near Trump International Hotel and Tower to the northeast, Central Park to the east, 2 Columbus Circle and 240 Central Park South to the southeast, and Central Park Place to the south.[2] Entrances to the New York City Subway's 59th Street–Columbus Circle station, served by the 1, A, B, C, and D trains, are directly outside the building.[6] As part of the construction of what was then Time Warner Center, the existing subway staircase was refurbished and an elevator was added to the subway entrance. Because the building did not include a zoning bonus, the developers did not need to fund a renovation of the subway station, as Hearst Communications was obligated to do when it built Hearst Tower one block south.[7]
Deutsche Bank Center occupies the site of the New York Coliseum,[8][9] which itself replaced two city blocks bounded by Columbus Circle, 60th Street, Ninth Avenue, and 58th Street.[10][11] The Coliseum opened in 1956 as New York City's main convention center,[12][13] being superseded by the Javits Center in the 1980s.[9][14] Around the same time, the area around Columbus Circle was being redeveloped, in part because of the Coliseum's success.[15] This prompted the Coliseum's owner, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), to place the building up for sale in 1985.[14][16] An agreement on the site's redevelopment was not finalized until 1998,[17][18] and designs for the Coliseum replacement itself were not in place until 1999.[15] This was in part due to disagreements over the site, as well as a weak economy in the late 1980s and early 1990s.[19]
