NEW YORK CITY—Rudin Management Co. reports it has completed a multi-million redesign and renovation program at its 22-story 560 Lexington Ave. office building here.

The capital improvements, designed by architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, were focused on upgrades to the subway entrance, public plaza and lobby of the 400,000-square-foot office building on 50th Street. Work on the renovations began last year.

The renovations were geared to enlivening the covered pedestrian space, lobby, elevators, retail storefronts and subway entrance of the building. SOM replaced the original dark brick and bronze-colored metal panels in the plaza with a lighter palette of limestone and white granite, while enhancing the visibility and openness of the plaza with glass and steel. Commuters walking to the 50th St. southbound side-entrance of the 51st Street subway station will now enjoy a curvilinear and highly-transparent sculptural enclosure surrounding the subway entrance into the plaza and to the Terence Cardinal Cook-Cathedral branch of the New York Public Library and the subway below. Plaza benches are integrated into the subway enclosure. The renovated subway entrance officially reopened on July 20, 2015.

The renovated lobby at 560 Lexington now features silver-white, Spanish granite flooring, and St. Hubert limestone from Portugal, as well as a glass entrance, new desk and redesigned elevator cabs.

“Our vision to enliven and enhance 560's public spaces for our tenants and the community is now a reality,” state Bill and Eric Rudin, co-vice chairmen of Rudin Management Co., the operating arm of the Rudin Family holdings. “We are thrilled with SOM's transformational and sophisticated design. 560 Lexington was built by our fathers, Jack and Lewis, to blend with landmarked St. Bartholomew's Church and 570 Lexington, just as the city was emerging from the fiscal crisis of the mid-1970s. This project helped promote the resurgence of development in New York at that time and now the next generations of our family are reaffirming our commitment to New York by reinvesting in our properties.”

Rudin Management attributes two recent significant leasing transactions at the property to the renovations at the building. Earlier in the year, Bayern LB, one of the Rudin family's original tenants at 560 Lexington Ave., signed a 15-year, 53,334-square-foot renewal at the property, while Vodafone took an additional 17,204 square feet in the tower, bringing its overall presence to 34,408 square feet.

Other tenants at the 95% occupied building include Verizon Business Services, Merrill Lynch, Mitsui Sumitomo Marine Management, Carlton Advisory Services Inc. and Susman Godfrey LLP. Retail tenants include Godiva Chocolatier and Starbucks Coffee.