Wells Fargo’s modern New York flagship is a 500,000-sq-ft space across nine floors of the 30 Hudson Yards skyscraper in lower Manhattan.

Much of Manhattan’s 17.4-million-sq-ft Eastern Yard--the 13-acre first phase of the 28-acre Hudson Yards air-rights minicity—is open.

An initial victory is won by a developer that is battling New York unions.

The first four towers in the $25-billion development are slowly shaping New York City's new multi-use district.

In 2010, when Ronald W. Wackrow was about four months shy of completing the rescue of the troubled 6.5-million-sq-ft Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, his boss, Related Cos. Chairman Stephen M. Ross, suggested his next assignment: Relocate to the East Coast to steer design and construction of the developer’s 17.5- million-sq-ft Hudson Yards—a 26-acre mini-city primarily sited over the Long Island Railroad yard on the far West Side of Midtown Manhattan.