{"id":256,"date":"2022-03-09T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/?p=256"},"modified":"2025-03-11T23:01:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T23:01:51","slug":"181-mercer-building-opening-delayed-again-until-spring-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/09\/181-mercer-building-opening-delayed-again-until-spring-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"181 Mercer building opening delayed again until spring 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The opening of NYU\u2019s new 181 Mercer Street building has been postponed until spring 2023, according to NYU spokesperson Shonna Keogan. The university <\/span>previously announced<\/span><\/a> that the building would be ready for occupancy by November 2022, but construction halts, labor shortages and supply chain issues have delayed its opening date.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cUnderstandably, <\/span>we are all excited by the prospect of the completion of 181 Mercer Street; the construction proceeds apace \u2014 as you can probably see, with the exterior now almost entirely enclosed,\u201d Keogan wrote in a statement to WSN. \u201cThis updated timeframe applies to all components of the building.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The latest delay is not the first time that the construction of the flagship development has been stalled. NYU previously<\/span> postponed the building\u2019s opening<\/span><\/a>\u00a0from spring 2022 to fall 2022 for similar reasons as the most recent postponement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The 735,000-square-foot building will include student and faculty housing, 58 classrooms, a 350-seat theater, practice rooms, athletic facilities, study spaces and common areas, <\/span>according to NYU\u2019s website.<\/span><\/a> Due to classroom shortages, NYU currently <\/span>leases classroom space outside of university buildings<\/span><\/a>, such as in a St. John\u2019s University building on Astor Place. Keogan said that NYU will consider classroom assignments and fall enrollment in its decision to renew its rental of the St. John\u2019s building for the fall 2022 semester.<\/span><\/p>\n

The opening of 181 Mercer housing <\/span>will coincide with the construction<\/span><\/a> on Rubin Hall during the 2023-24 academic year and Goddard Hall\u2019s transition to housing the sociology department in summer 2024. NYU said the planned construction and relocation timeline will help maintain student housing availability.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 181 Mercer building has been met with opposition from SoHo and NoHo residents since it was proposed as part of what was then called NYU Plans 2031 over 14 years ago. Many local residents and local neighborhood organizations have <\/span>expressed concerns<\/span><\/a> about the building throughout its construction, including that the design is poorly suited for the block it occupies and the building will <\/span>displace the nearby Morton Williams supermarket<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In <\/span>a March 7 update<\/span><\/a> on 181 Mercer\u2019s construction progress, NYU said the removal of all exterior hoists \u2014 equipment to lift and lower construction loads \u2014 is expected to be completed during the spring 2022 semester, along with the installation of the building\u2019s facade. The removal of the exterior hoists started on the Houston Street side of the building on Saturday, March 5. The Greene Street side is scheduled to have its exterior hoists dismantled this week.<\/span><\/p>\n

Contact Carmo Moniz at cmoniz@nyunews.com.<\/em><\/p>\n

This story 181 Mercer building opening delayed again until spring 2023<\/a> appeared first on Washington Square News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The opening of NYU\u2019s new 181 Mercer Street building has been postponed until spring 2023, according to NYU spokesperson Shonna Keogan. The university previously announced that the building would be ready for occupancy by November 2022, but construction halts, labor shortages and supply chain issues have delayed its opening date. \u201cUnderstandably, we are all excited […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2031-expansion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}