By Jotham Sederstrom 1/31/12 3:38pm

the sit-down

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The Winter Garden and Quirky.Com: Scott Spector Designs New York City

Since breaking into Manhattan in 1998, the Spector Group has immersed itself in some of the city’s most notable design projects, including a series of assignments for NASDAQ, office designs for Internet start-up companies and some of the area’s earliest initiatives for data centers and telecom hotels, some of which are now being converted back to office use. Principal Scott Spector, 49, spoke to The Commercial Observer about one of his family-owned company’s biggest assignments, rebuilding the Winter Garden, as well as ongoing work for NASDAQ and what may be his most imaginative job yet—designing eclectic office space for Quirky.com with repurposed bowling alley materials.

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By Jotham Sederstrom 11/16/11 12:46pm

The Plan

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The Plan: Quirky, 601 West 27th Street

In June, the rapidly growing product development social network Quirky inked a deal for 27,500 square feet at 601 West 27th Street, a former ministorage facility currently in the process of converting into offices for a number of other tech companies. Otherwise known as the Terminal Warehouse Building, the seven-story, 1.2 million-square-foot property near 11th Avenue was built in the late 19th Century, yet only just began leasing space to office tenants several years ago. As such, Quirky, which quadruples in size from its current space at 628 Broadway, took advantage of raw space, high ceilings and start-up friendly, loft-like floor plates. After the jump, Ben Kaufman, the company’s 25-year-old founder and chief executive and Greg Taubin, a senior managing director at the real estate firm Studley who inked the deal, reviewed the floor plan and discussed what impressed them the most.

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