Manhattan's new High Line Park opened this week, and all along the route are new real estate developments that are incorporated into the park's design. NY1's Real Estate reporter Jill Scott filed the following report.

From Gansevoort to 20th Street, New Yorkers will soon enjoy Manhattan's new pedestrian park known as the High Line. As it was developed over the last few years, many new real estate projects were created.

The High Line itself is adjacent to or runs through various buildings and that makes for interesting design.

One example is the new Standard Hotel, the only new structure built to straddle the park itself. Engineers had to first create strong enough supports to hold the building above the High Line, then the tower could be constructed.

"The building straddles the High Line but never touches. It means they are both going to exist together," says architect Todd Schliemann of Polshek Architect Partnership. "Somebody said it's like an architectural lap dance - very, very close, but never touch."

As for the style, architect Todd Schliemann says the façade is made up of hard concrete and sleek glass to represent the sophistication of New York.

One new development along the High Line is at 450 West 14th Street, also known as the High Line Building - the only building where the High Line runs right through it.

"This is a unique project, because this is the only building that actually shares a structure with the High Line," says architect Morris Adjmi of Morris Adjmi Architects. "It's going to be an all-commercial building with retail on the ground floor and really we have taken the inspiration and imprint from the High Line and expressed on the façade of the building."

Because it shares structures and support systems with an old railway, every design decision had to be carefully through out. The building was originally a five-story meat packing warehouse and the intention was to have a tower on top, but it was never completed until now. The open space where the train once passed through could possibly soon become a café or maybe an event space.

As for residential buildings, several new properties are either open or in the works. The first one erected was Related Companies Caledonia located on West 17th Street. This high-end luxury rental and condominium building is adjacent to the trestle and support beams were incorporated into the design.

"In the Equinox Space when you enter on 10th Avenue, you can see the support columns rising in the middle of our lobby and to us that was important to be able to integrate the past of this old industrial railway that is now becoming an integral part of our future," says Eric Zollinger of Related Companies.

The views from all these buildings are as magnificent as the engineering needed to design them, and like the High Line itself, the projects are major developments in the ever-changing landscape of Manhattan.