Hudson Yards’ $25 Billion Project Caps Global Push for Oxford

  • Omers’s pension fund unit signed on for Hudson amid crisis
  • Canada fund looks beyond home country as assets balloon
Hudson Yards Ready to Change the Face of Manhattan Real Estate
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A risky roll of the dice made in the depths of the financial crisis a decade ago will begin to bear fruit next week for a small Canadian pension fund leading the biggest private real estate project in U.S. history.

With Hudson Yards’ seven-story retail complex set to open March 15, workers were busy putting finishing touches on store interiors, stocking up merchandised goods and hoisting up a giant sign for anchor tenant Neiman Marcus on the exterior wall of the building facing 10th Avenue in New York on Tuesday.