Chelsea Market is an enclosed, urban food court and shopping mall built within the former Nabisco factory complex where the Oreo cookie was invented and produced. The 22-building complex fills two entire blocks bounded by 9th and 11th Avenues and 15th to 16th Street. In addition to the retail concourse in the structure east of 10th Avenue, it also provides standard office space for tenants, including media and broadcasting companies such as Oxygen Network, Food Network and the local New York City cable station NY1. Food court at the Fashion Centre at Pentagon City in Arlington, Virginia. ... Nabisco logo Nabisco is a U.S.-based manufacturer of cookies and snacks, including brands such as Chips Ahoy!, Fig Newtons, Mallomars, Oreos, Ritz Crackers, Teddy Grahams, Triscuits, and Wheat Thins. ... Oreo is a type of cookie manufactured by Nabisco Corporation, introduced in 1912. ... For the womens television network see: Oh! Oxygen. ... Television Food Network, normally referred to as Food Network, is a New York-based cable network that airs many specials and recurring (episodic) shows about food, food preparation, at-home entertaining, and restaurants. ... NY1 (pronounced New York One) is a twenty-four hour news channel available exclusively to cable television customers within the five boroughs of New York City and nearby Bergen County, New Jersey. ...

Retail facilities were introduced into the building by connecting the original back lots of individual buildings to a central, ground-level concourse with entries at 9th and 10th Avenues (completed in April of 1997). Anchor stores include the Manhattan Friut Market, and a restaurant, which opened in January 2006 called Morimoto, owned by Food Network "Iron Chef" Masaharu Morimoto and designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando. Opposite Morimoto across 10th Avenue, also in the Chelsea Market complex is Del Posto, an Italian restaurant owned by rival "Iron Chef," Mario Batali. 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Masaharu Morimoto (森本正治 Morimoto Masaharu; born May 26, 1955 in Hiroshima, Japan) is a well-known Japanese chef, best-known as the third (and last) Iron Chef Japanese on the TV cooking show Iron Chef, and an Iron Chef on its spinoff, Iron Chef America. ... The Westin Awaji Island designed by Ando Tadao Ando (安藤忠雄, Andō Tadao, born September 13, 1941 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese architect whose approach to architecture is sometimes categorised as Critical Regionalism. ... Mario Batali is an American chef and restaurateur. ...

Above Chelsea Market, passing through the building on the 10th Avenue side, a new urban landscape is in the process of development called the High Line. This abandoned, elevated railraod track will be converted to an urban oasis or greenway with a continuous route between the Javits Convention Center and the tredy Meatpacking District in the West Village. The High Line (also known as the West Side Freight Line or the West Side Elevated Freight Railroad) is an abandoned 1. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The word greenway can refer to a fictional road in J. R. R. Tolkiens Middle-earth - see Greenway (Middle-earth) the former home of author Agatha Christie in Devon, England, now known for its exotic gardens - see Greenway Estate a green corridor of undeveloped land running through an urban... ... The Meatpacking District, also known as Gansevoort Market, is a neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City. ... // The West Village is part of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in the New York City Bourough of Manhattan, bounded by the Hudson River and roughly 6th Avenue, extending from 14th Street down to Houston Street. ...

The developers of Chelsea Market have encouraged a symbiotic relationship among their tenents with the vendors supplying the restaruanteurs with fresh ingredients, such as seafood, vegetables, fruit and meats. The presence of television companies in the same building also brings media attention to the site and the businesses that are found there. The site also allows businesses to combine their manufacturing and retail assets under one roof.

External links

• Chelsea Market - Official website
• Nabisco, a division of Kraft Foods - Official webite
• Meatpacking district - Links to stores and clubs in the neighborhood