Gansevoort Square

Gansevoort Square will deliver needed mixed-income housing and open space and cement the Meatpacking District as a global destination and economic engine for the city.

In October 2024, Mayor Adams released a new vision to transform an approximately 66,000 square foot lot in the heart of the Meatpacking District into a 24/7 live, learn, work, and play, community and cultural hub for New Yorkers. Known as Gansevoort Square, this vision will build upon the success of the Meatpacking District and reimagine the site as a one-of-a-kind destination for New Yorkers, with mixed-income housing, new open space, and the opportunity to expand the Whitney Museum of American Art and the High Line operations facility—some of the city’s most iconic cultural institutions.

The Future Gansevoort Square

Gansevoort Square—located on Little West 12th Street between Washington Street and Tenth Avenue in Manhattan—will be partially built on the lot of the Gansevoort Market Co-op. In August 2024, the Gansevoort Meat Market, the site’s current tenant, elected to leave the site early in cooperation with NYCEDC and the City of New York. The initial proposal for this new project includes:

• Up to 600 mixed-income housing units to further the City’s ambitious housing policy goals The City anticipates that this will include as many as 300 affordable units, without the need for any public subsidy.
• A new, 11,200-square-foot open space.
• The opportunity for additional development, including a potential expansion of the Whitney Museum of American Art with new gallery, education, and learning spaces, as well as new High Line operations facilities.