Vision and Impacts

Every day, we invest in inclusive, sustainable communities and initiatives from large-scale city centers to affordable housing. We believe that pursuing these solutions to neighborhood advancement will positively impact society for generations to come.

Hudson Yards was named Manhattan's first-ever Leed^® Gold Neighborhood Development. Building a neighborhood from the ground up in the heart of New York City gave us the opportunity to create a blueprint for the future of sustainable urban centers to show how a healthier, more environmentally responsive design can lead to better-connected centers of urban life.

Related Cares provides both a giving back and volunteering program to our employees across the country. We provide a full day-off per year for employees to give back to any organization they support in their communities. and fund a gift matching program to promote giving.

Related and chef José Andrés’ global organization World Central Kitchen (WCK) partnered to feed the brave health care workers and emergency responders at locations throughout Manhattan’s West Side. The WCK outpost was established within 55 Hudson Yards where volunteers provided free meals daily for heroic essential workers. Related and Wells Fargo started this initiative by contributing $1,000,000 to HYWWCK: Relief on the Hudson.

Our commitment to community engagement through arts and culture is exemplified not just by engaging site-specific works of art adorning our residential buildings and city center developments but by the programs we sponsor in our affordable portfolio, such as Art on Sedgewick in Chicago and the 400 foot long Mural Festival community engagement piece in Springfield, MA.

Hudson Yards has partnered with 43 non-profit organizations with a focus on kids, sustainability, the local community and the arts. In just three years, we have hosted events attended by nearly 3,500 guests, provided space at no charge and, in most cases, covered costs of events.