Billy Macklowe has filled up the first building he bought without dad Harry.
Investment vehicle SecondMarket Holdings has taken about 50,000 square feet in floors three through six of 636 Avenue of the Americas in the flatiron. Read More
MacMillan Holdings, a book publisher with a stable of authors that includes Edward Abbey and soon-to-be New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson, has signed a two-year sublease at 41 Madison Avenue, The Observer has learned. Read More
Top-shelf accounting firm Rosen Seymour Shapss Martin & Company has signed a renewal for 42,665 square feet at its longtime 757 Third Avenue address, Read More
Carter’s, the baby and toddler clothier, has signed a 23,000-square-foot office lease at 122 Fifth Avenue, brokers told The Observer.
The Bromley Companies-owned office space, previously occupied by The New York Times, became available for the first time in more than 20 years, and includes 14.5–foot ceilings and a T-shaped floorplan, according to the landlord’s website. Read More
In one of the largest deals to hit New York City, not to mention Lower Manhattan, in 2011 thus far, Oppenheimer & Co., the national financial services firm, made good on long-time rumors yesterday by finally announcing its buzzed-about 270,000-square-foot, 15-year transaction at 85 Broad Street, the old Goldman Sachs HQ that The Observer profiled in 2009. Read More
The New York Blood Center has closed two separate deals for office space near Grand Central Terminal and in Union Square. Read More
At first glance, the 11-story property on 11th Avenue near 47th Street hardly seemed the ideal candidate to become Manhattan’s next big office building.
Situated on the far West Side, the 98-year-old building at 636 11th Avenue was destined for a full-blown hotel or condominium conversion when the Hakimian Organization purchased a stake in it in 2005. Indeed, what corporate tenant in its right mind would willingly wander so far west? Or at least that’s what Ben Hakimian thought. Read More
In one of the biggest law firm deals this year in New York, intellectual property specialists Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton has taken 45,000 square feet at the Grace Building at 1114 Avenue of the Americas.
The deal, which comes six months after Kilpatrick Stockton merged with Townsend and Townsend and Crew, allows the legal practice to now double its size from its current 22,500 square feet at 31 West 52nd Street, brokers said. At the 49-story, Brookfield Office Properties-co-owned Grace Building, the firm will occupy the entire 21st floor and a portion of the 22nd. Read More
Augusta Columbia Capital, a recently launched investment firm, has signed a five-year, 7,281-square-foot lease at 130 East 59th Street.
The tenant sought to open its doors quickly and the UJA Organization-owned building offered a high-end pre-built installation that fit its needs, brokers said. The direct lease, which will begin this month after the firm vacates its temporary space at 345 Park Avenue, will encompass a portion of the 17-story building’s 14th floor at an asking rent of approximately $53 per square foot. Read More
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers has inked a deal for 100,000-square-feet at 2 Park Avenue, and will relocate in the fall of 2012. The lease is long-term and the asking rent was in the mid-$40s a foot.
ASME is not straying far from its current home—2 Park is only a block away and across the street from 3 Park, but it offers “larger space to better accommodate current and future needs,” according to a release from the organization. Read More
