Performing Arts Center (Manhattan)

World Trade Center Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center
Location within New York City
General information
Status	Planning
Location	Vesey Street Manhattan, New York City
Country	United States
Coordinates	40°42′45.3″N 74°0′44.5″W / 40.712583°N 74.012361°W / 40.712583; -74.012361
Construction started	early 2017
Completed	2020 (planned)
Cost	USD $275 million
Owner	Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Design and construction
Architect	Joshua Prince-Ramus (REX), Davis Brody Bond
Website
http://www.theperelman.org

The Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center (PACWTC) is a planned multi-space, 150 to 800-seat performing arts center at the northeast corner of the World Trade Center complex, located at the intersection of Vesey, Fulton and Greenwich Streets in Manhattan.

The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) announced on October 12, 2004, that Gehry Partners LLP and Snøhetta, an architectural firm from Norway, would design the Performing Arts Center. Gehry's proposal, which incorporated a boxlike design, would have housed the Joyce Theater, as the Signature Theater Company had dropped out due to space constraints and cost limitations.

Plans for the construction of the Performing Arts Center were reportedly stalled over financing and design, although construction is also hindered by the presence of the temporary World Trade Center PATH subway station entrance located within its footprint. On March 3, 2016, the permanent station opened, allowing the temporary station to be demolished.

In February 2014, David Lan, Artistic Director of London's Young Vic Theatre, was announced as Consulting Artistic Director of the PACWTC, a position he will hold simultaneously with his Young Vic leadership. The Center's mission was revised to originate works of theater, music and dance in three small flexible theaters.

By September 2014, Gehry Associates were no longer connected with the project. Plans were proceeding for the choice of a new architect and future programming for a 2019 opening. Gehry's design was scrapped; the board of the Performing Arts Center planned to choose a new design from one of three other architects. This change came after Maggie Boepple, the president of the Performing Arts Center appointed in 2012, was said to have disapproved of Gehry's work.