Rockefeller Fund Moves to Upper West Side

NEW YORK CITY-The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a Rockefeller family foundation dedicated to promoting social change, is relocating from Midtown to the Upper West Side. Its new base of operations will be a 28,000-square-foot space at the Interchurch Center, located at 475 Riverside Dr. on land donated by the family half a century earlier.

“As a charitable organization, the RBF wanted to align its real estate to better meet its financial and sustainable goals,” says Daniel O. Horowitz, executive managing director of Studley, which served as the RBF’s real estate advisor on this transaction, in a release. To that end, the fund is seeking LEED certification for the build-out of its new space. In addition, Horowitz says, “the space provides the RBF with dramatic views of the Hudson River, George Washington Bridge and Riverside Church.”

The RBF has been involved in sustainable development issues since the 1980s. In 2005, the fund committed to going carbon neutral. “We look forward to our move to the Interchurch Center,” says Stephen B. Heintz, president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, in a statement. “We now have the wonderful opportunity to build out a green space that is as energy efficient and environmentally sensitive as possible, save money that will go toward grants, and reside in a nonprofit building that houses the community we serve.”