An insurance company has renewed its lease in the increasingly media- and startup-friendly enclave of Hudson Square.
Frenkel & Co., an independent insurance company, has signed a seven-year lease renewal for 39,000 square feet on the fourth floor of 350 Hudson Street for its corporate headquarters, The Commercial Observer has learned. Read More
Speeches were casually ignored, drinks were spilled and bonds were formed at last Thursday’s 116th annual Real Estate Board of New York Gala, which this year drew an estimated 2,000 brokers, owners, advertising buyers and real estate reporters to the New York Hilton for an evening of conviviality, honorifics and hushed deal making. Among the fray was Commercial Observer staff writer Daniel Geiger, who during the course of the evening saw his stenopad tossed by an irate real estate broker and who unabashedly accosted Studley’s Woody Heller in the hotel’s bathroom, all for the sake of the story. Below, a timeline of gala comings and goings, from the innocuous gossip down to the downright obnoxious. Read More
Limited Brands Inc., an apparel company that owns several major retailers including Victoria’s Secret and Bath and Body Works, has reached a deal to add nearly 100,000 square feet of space at 1740 Broadway, a building owned by Vornado.
Limited Brands will take floors 14 through 17 in the expansion and will now occupy about 500,000 square feet in the roughly 700,000 square foot property. The company, formerly known as The Limited, is represented by a team from the real estate services firm CBRE, led by CBRE’s New York area Chief Executive Mary Ann Tighe and executives Eric Deutsch and Ken Meyerson. Read More
No, not Iris Weinshall, as once widely rumored. The new head of the Alliance for Downtown New York, the largest business improvement district in the city, is Eric J. Deutsch, the president and CEO of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation, the Alliance announced today. The spot’s been open Read More
