Interior Fit-Out Completed for 45,000 SF Fernandez-Duminuco Hall Addition in Manhattan

NEW YORK CITY – Construction manager Richter+Ratner (R+R) and architect Beyer Blinder Belle have completed the interior fit-out of Xavier High School’s 45,000-square-foot Fernandez-Duminuco Hall. The project is located on six floors and the cellar level of a 25-story mixed-use building at 35 W. 15th St. Xavier is a Jesuit college preparatory school for young men founded in 1847 in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. The school’s campus includes six buildings located alongside the Church of Saint Francis Xavier. Fernandez-Duminuco Hall is Xavier’s first campus expansion in more than 90 years. The $11.7 million, nine-month project called for the construction of a science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) classroom, music facilities, a recording studio, student project space and a multi-use area that hosts theater productions and major assemblies. Fernandez-Duminuco Hall is located within a larger 170,000-square foot, 330-foot tall luxury residential condominium tower named 35XV, which was designed by FXFowle. The developer, Alchemy Properties, obtained the air rights for the new building from Xavier High School in exchange for locating the hall inside the new development. In addition to R+R, Beyer Blinder Belle and McLaren Engineering, the project team included owner’s representative Sterling Project Development; structural engineer for the tower Nash Engineering; mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineer AKF Group LLC; and acoustical consultant Acoustic Distinction.