Times Square's Palace Theatre Finishes Its Nine-Metre Lift · Chronopin

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Starts 05/05/2022 CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: raising the theatre "took months, starting in January 2022 and finishing in early May" 2022.

Start: May 5, 202290% CONFIDENCEfrom the source

Times Square's Palace Theatre Finishes Its Nine-Metre Lift

Engineers finished raising the landmarked Palace Theatre nine metres into the air on hydraulic jacks, clearing space beneath it for the new TSX Broadway entertainment venue in Times Square.

Engineers finished raising the landmarked Palace Theatre 30 feet (about nine metres) above street level, reported on 5 May 2022^[2][3]
The 14-million-pound theatre was lifted at six inches an hour over roughly 17 days between January and May 2022, using 34 hydraulic lifting posts pushing a ring beam, designed by Urban Foundation Engineering^[2]
The lift frees ground level for retail in the podium of the TSX Broadway tower (46 to 47 stories, $2.5 billion) developed by L&L Holding and Fortress, designed by Perkins Eastman and Mancini Duffy^[2][3]
The theatre gets a $50 million renovation with 1,657 new seats, an expanded lobby and new marquee; next comes column extensions and load transfer to permanent structure, with restoration by PBDW Architects^[2][3]
The Palace opened in 1913; the previous hotel built around it in the 1987 to 1991 renovation was demolished in 2019 for TSX^[3]

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youtube.com/watch?v=MnIcCQR551o
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Happened as dated, per the source: raising the theatre "took months, starting in January 2022 and finishing in early May" 2022.
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How the Palace Theatre Ended Up 30 Feet Above Manhattan – Commercial Observer
commercialobserver.com· Published May 9, 2022· 0% of score
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Palace Theatre Completes Lifting as Part of TSX Broadway Project – BroadwayWorld
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