Live Nation Headquarters Moving to NYC's Meatpacking District

This past November, Live Nation reported another record quarter, earning $3.21 billion in the third quarter -- a whopping 23 percent increase year-over-year.

The new Live Nation headquarters will share the neighborhood with Google as well as retail outlets for Samsung and Apple, which has a store prominently positioned at the pedestrian plaza on 9th Avenue and 14th Street.

There is perhaps no greater symbol of gentrification in New York City than downtown's Meatpacking District, which throughout most of the '90s still processed meat by day and became something of a transgressive clubland by night. The neighborhood's vaunted venues included the tri-level multi-genre dance club Mars, the Jackie 60 party at Mother's, the legendary BDSM Hellfire Club and the underground (literally) performance space the Cooler (once a literal meat cooler).

Throughout the aughts, the neighborhood gradually became something of an upscale and overdeveloped tourist destination. The arrival of boutiques and the exclusive Soho House, the High Line (a once dilapidated raised railway that was transformed into an art-minded public park/walkway and completed in 2014), the sprawling Standard Hotel and the downtown Whitney Museum designed by Renzo Piano pushed out the underground S&M clubs, which were replaced by bottle-service clubs like Le Bain on the roof of the Standard and 1OAK, among others.