Whitney to Break Ground on Downtown Outpost Next Spring

It’s official: the Whitney Museum of American Art will break ground on its new building in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District in May 2011. Zoning is complete, demolition has begun, and if all goes according to plan, the new digs would open to the public in 2015. Designed by Renzo Piano [cue chorus of angels], the six-floor building will include more than 50,000 square feet of indoor galleries and 13,000 square feet of rooftop exhibition space.