Prospective Tenants

They’ve Met. Now What?

It seems high time that the Whitney and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, well, met.

The Whitney approved a $680 million expansion plan into the meatpacking district last spring, after years cramped in an overhanging Brutalist beast of a building on 75th Street. But there was a catch: Cosmetics heir Leonard Lauder apparently has a Read More

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Madoff Treasure Hunters Scavenging

Tishman Speyer and a major law firm are sharpening their skates for yet another high-stakes renewal duet at Rockefeller Center.

Baker Hostetler, the world’s 85th-largest law firm, which represented Bernie Madoff’s victims in their search for lost treasure, now occupies 100,000 square feet at 45 Rockefeller Plaza. But with its leases expiring Read More

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Apartment Hunter-Gatherer Prowling

From the glamorous to the quotidian, everything you need to know about New York City’s apartment market is contained on StreetEasy, except this: The city’s most powerful residential real estate site has begun a quest for new office space.

“We’ve got half a dozen places that are of real interest,” chief executive Michael Smith told Read More

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Would-Be Apple Scoping Manhattan

Steve Jobs can’t sneeze on a storefront without creating a fan frenzy, but a similarly high-end tech store has been scoping Manhattan space without eliciting so much as a tweet. Micro Center, a big-box-size retailer with aspirations to an Apple-like desirability, is scoping Manhattan space, including along top-tier Fifth Avenue, sources tell The Read More

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Pret A Manger to Mange More Spots

Valhalla of fine dining midtown is not, but the high-density office district has at least mastered the art of the weekday power lunch.

Now, Pret A Manger plans to triple its New York City presence over the next two years. The expansion will include more locations downtown, as well as in Brooklyn, Read More