First look at the food hall opening at NYC’s Lord & Taylor building

First look at the food hall opening at NYC’s Lord & Taylor building
By Aaron Ginsburg
April 28, 2025

New York City’s landmarked Lord & Taylor building will be publicly accessible for the first time since the flagship department store closed in 2019. A 35,000-square-foot food hall, dubbed Shaver Hall, will open later this year on the ground floor of the historic Fifth Avenue building. Amazon bought the property in 2020 and converted the space into offices in 2023. Newly released renderings are showing off the food hall’s 11 curated stalls, wine and cheese bar, and “modern bodega.”

Amazon acquired the building at 424 Fifth Avenue in March 2020 for nearly $1 billion, selecting architecture firm WRNS Studio to reimagine the landmark as a 21st-century workplace called “Hank” that embraces its fashion roots.
The building opened in September 2023, delivering more than 600,000 square feet with space for roughly 2,000 employees—about a fifth of Amazon’s New York-area workforce.
In addition to office space, Hank also offers a rooftop terrace with views of the Empire State Building, a dog run, and a sunken courtyard, as 6sqft previously reported.

Named after former Lord & Taylor president Dorothy Shaver…Shaver Hall joins a growing number of new food halls opening across New York City, which, despite the flurry of new announcements, has seen several existing food halls close in recent years.

When it opens later this year, Shaver Hall will bring the public back to the building’s ground floor for the first time in six years, after the Lord & Taylor department store closed in 2019.