Bertelsmann Building

Bertelsmann Building

General information
Type	Office ^[1]
Location	Times Square, New York City, United States^[2]
Coordinates	40°45′29″N 73°59′05″W / 40.758135°N 73.984853°W / 40.758135; -73.984853Coordinates: 40°45′29″N 73°59′05″W / 40.758135°N 73.984853°W / 40.758135; -73.984853
Construction started	1989^[1]
Completed	1990 ^[2]^[1]
Opening	1990
Owner	CBRE ^[2]
Height
Antenna spire	733 ft (223 m)^[2]^[1]
Roof	616 ft (188 m)^[1]
Technical details
Floor count	44^[2]
Floor area	1,100,000 sq ft (100,000 m²)^[1]
Design and construction
Architect	Skidmore, Owings and Merrill ^[2]
Developer	Eichner Properties ^[1]

The former Bertelsmann Building, now known as 1540 Broadway,^[3] is a 44-story, 733 foot (223 m) office tower in Times Square in Manhattan, New York City, standing at West 45th Street.^[2] The building was the North American headquarters of media conglomerate Bertelsmann from 1992 until the company vacated and sold the property, of which they occupied all office-use floors, in 2004.^[2]^[1] The building housed US satellites of central functions such as Corporate Development, Corporate Communications and the Office of the Chairman and CEO, as well as serving as worldwide headquarters for the Bertelsmann Music Group and Bertelsmann Book Group (what has later taken on the umbrella brand name Random House). Today's office tenants include Viacom, China Central Television, Yahoo, Adobe and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman.^[4] The building retained the Bertelsmann name and signage facing Broadway until its eventual removal in late 2013.

Started in 1989 and finished in 1990, the tower is one of the few in Times Square to contain class A office space.^[2]^[1] Also found in the tower is Planet Hollywood, and commercial tenants MAC Cosmetics, Disney Store, and Forever 21.^[2]^[1]

In the 1990s the Bertelsmann subsidiary Random House looked to build a skyscraper across 45th Street from its parent and be connected to it via a neon-lighted bridge across 45th Street.^[5] When the deal fell through it built the Random House Tower 10 blocks uptown.

Loew's State Theatre (1921) formerly occupied the site of the Bertelsmann Building. Before Loew's, the Bartholdi Inn (1899), then New York’s best-known theatrical boarding house, was located there.

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Bertelsmann Building". SkyscraperPage.com. Retrieved 2008-01-10.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Bertelsmann Building". Emporis.com. Retrieved 2008-01-10.
↑ Dunlap, David W. (1993-04-25). "Debacle on Times Square". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-01-10.
↑ Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
↑ Bagli, Charles V. (1999-02-04). "55th Street Is Said to Be Site For a Random House Tower". New York Times. Retrieved 2009-09-04.

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Bertelsmann Education Group

Alliant International University
Relias Learning

Other assets

BMG Rights Management
Penguin Random House
Verlagsgruppe Random House (Goldmann)

↑ joint venture with Tele München Fernseh, Heinrich Bauer Verlag and Burda.
↑ joint venture with The Walt Disney Company.
↑ joint venture with Axel Springer, Heinrich Bauer Verlag, Lühmanndruck Harburger Zeitungsgesellschaft and Morgenpost Verlag.
↑ joint venture with Rheinland-Pfälzische Rundfunk.
↑ joint venture with Amperwelle Studio München Programmanbietergesellschaft, Axel Springer AG, Hubert Burda Media, Studio Gong, Mediengesellschaft der bayerischen Tageszeitungen für Kabelkommunikation, Medienpool and Radio Bavaria Rundfunkprogrammgesellschaft
1 2 joint venture with TF1 Group.
↑ joint venture with AB Groupe.
↑ joint venture with L'Équipe.
1 2 3 joint venture with TVI, LEMAIRE ELECTRONICS and Rossel.

Category
Commons

Structures on Broadway in Manhattan

1-599 (Battery Pl. - W. Houston St.)	1 Broadway 2 Broadway Bowling Green 26 Broadway (previously occupied by Lautman's Dairy) Cunard Building 52 Broadway Adams Express Building 65 Broadway 1 Wall Street AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company Trinity Church Equitable Building Equitable Life Building Marine Midland Building Zuccotti Park One Liberty Plaza Fulton Center Corbin Building American Surety Building 195 Broadway Astor House Woolworth Building City Hall Park New York City Hall Broadway–Chambers Building 280 Broadway 287 Broadway Appleton Building 359 Broadway 361 Broadway (James S. White Building) 462 Broadway Mechanics' Hall E. V. Haughwout Building New Era Building Scholastic Building Singer Building

600-1499 (W. Houston St. - Times Sq.)	Cable Building Canterbury Hall Grace Church Church of the Messiah Grand Central Hotel 770 Broadway Strand Bookstore Tisch School of the Arts Grace Church Union Square Flatiron Building Madison Square Baudouine Building Gilsey House Grand Hotel Radisson Hotel Martinique Hotel McAlpin Herald Square Haier Building Knickerbocker Theatre Marbridge Building Metropolitan Opera House (former) Rialto Theatre Times Square One Times Square (previously occupied by Pabst Hotel) Condé Nast Building The Knickerbocker Hotel

1500-1800 (Times Sq. - Columbus Cir.)	1500 Broadway (previously occupied by Hotel Claridge) 1501 Broadway One Astor Plaza Astor Theatre Minskoff Theatre New York Marriott Marquis Morgan Stanley Building Palace Theatre Brill Building Winter Garden Theatre Central Theatre Capitol Theatre Ellen's Stardust Diner Paramount Plaza Studebaker Building Broadway Theatre 1717 Broadway 1740 Broadway Random House Tower Columbus Circle

North of Columbus Cir.	Museum of Biblical Art Dauphin Hotel Beacon Theatre The Apthorp Bretton Hall Goddard Institute for Space Studies Barnard College Audubon Ballroom United Palace Dyckman House Church of the Good Shepherd

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Bertelsmann Building

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