Related reveals renderings for $12B Hudson Yards casino

Related Companies is ready to show off the vision for its Hudson Yards casino and resort.

On Wednesday, the developer and its partners — Oxford Properties Group and Wynn Resorts — released renderings of the proposal on Manhattan’s West Side. They display more detail about a project expected to carry a $12 billion price tag, including $5.7 billion for the casino portion.

The renderings show that a nearly six-acre park on the western portion of Hudson Yards would surround the project’s central tower, an 80-story monolith that would house the casino. The park would be about the same size as Bryant Park and accessible to the public.

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The renderings come a month after Jeff Blau’s firm filed plans that include two other skyscrapers. Spread across the three buildings would be more than 1,500 apartments — including affordable housing — a resort hotel, 2 million square feet of office space, a public school, a day care and the casino.

The casino portion would span 2.7 million square feet and include a 1,750-key hotel, a ballroom, conference space, retail and restaurants. It would stretch across five floors at the bottom of the tower.

A 1,400-foot-tall tower on the southeast corner of the lot would hold office space and a 750-seat school. The southwest corner would have a 1,200-foot tower with 1,507 housing units, with 324 designated as affordable.

There may be more to come, as Blau said in a statement that the developer looks forward to “revealing full project plans as part of our application to New York state.”

The big question — which applies to many of the downstate casino proposals — is what will happen if the project is not awarded one of the three gaming licenses to be handed out by the state.

A spokesperson for Related sidestepped the question, saying, “Our goal is to finish the yards and provide all of the benefits that go along with that, including open space and affordable housing, and the gaming license is the catalyst that will enable that to happen.”

Requirements, including affordable housing, are baked into the Hudson Yards rezoning. The casino license, however, could speed development along because the project would be more financially compelling to Related, investors and lenders.

The site’s closest competition by proximity appears to be a proposal by Larry Silverstein. His firm’s 1.8 million-square-foot development would include two 46-story towers, connected by a sky bridge, on open land at the corner of West 41st Street and 11th Avenue.

This article has been updated to include the cost of the casino portion of the project.

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