Tiffany subleased 57,691 square feet of space at Midtown South crown jewel 200 Fifth Avenue to buzzed-about digital media outlet and cat gif purveyor BuzzFeed.The two-year sublease covers the entire eighth floor of L&L Holding Company‘s 600,000-square-foot tower.
Steven Marvin of Olmstead Properties represented the tenant. Studley‘s Gregg Taubin repped Tiffany. Read More
Midtown South has continued its meteoric rise, overshadowing the traditional office market in Midtown. Demand remains strong in the market, where more than 12 million square feet of space has been leased in the past three years.
As large tech tenants like Google—which subleased 83,000 square feet at Chelsea Market in the last quarter—continue to snap up space, the market only stands to continue its growth.
Jonathan Mazur, director of research at Cushman & Wakefield, spoke with The Commercial Observer last week to shed light on some of the key numbers from the firm’s recent Midtown South office market report for the first quarter of 2013. Read More
L&L Holding Company’s development of 425 Park Avenue may be the company’s current marquee project, but the firm, which chairman and CEO David Levinson co-founded with Robert Lapidus in 2000, continues to make a mark on Midtown South. In January, L&L purchased 114 Fifth Avenue in a $165 million joint venture, planning to model it after 200 Fifth Avenue, a thriving symbol of Midtown South’s bull real estate market. Mr. Levinson, 64, who owns a stake in the New York Yankees, spoke with The Commercial Observer about Midtown South, the threat of bomb attacks and the Bronx Bombers. Read More
LEGO Systems has inked a 10-year lease for 7,703 square feet of retail space at 200 Fifth Avenue. The company behind the beloved children’s building blocks projects that the new flagship will open in January 2014, and in a building that for 75 years was known as the International Toy Center before L&L Holdings bought it in 2009, the New York Post reported.
L&L’s David C. Berkey and Andrew Wiener represented the building in-house, while Cushman & Wakefield‘s Jonathan Scibilia and Andrew Kahn represented the toy tenant. Read More
Tiffany and Co. is expanding its footprint at L&L Holding Co.’s 200 Fifth Avenue, signing for an additional 57,691 square feet of office space and bringing its total share of the building to 405,489 square feet. The deal makes the luxury jeweler 200 Fifth’s biggest tenant and sends L&L into the thick of the holiday season with the bright and shiny gift of 100-percent occupancy at the 800,000-square-foot Flatiron District property.
Studley chairman and CEO Mitchell Steir, along with the firm’s Matt Barlow, David Goldstein and Greg Taubin represented Tiffany in the deal, which had an asking rent of $85 per square foot. David Berkey and Andrew Wiener were the in-house reps for L&L. Read More
IMG Worldwide has leased nearly 30,000 square feet at 200 Fifth Avenue, roughly half of the building’s seventh floor, for 15-years.
IMG is a media and marketing company involved primarily in television production and talent management. The company will be relocating to the space from the General Motors Building in Midtown. Read More
If Don Draper still ran an advertising agency, he’d have a very different Manhattan life. Instead of a dozen martinis and oysters at Grand Central every night after work, it’d probably be a quick Peroni and antipasti at Eataly before hitting the gym.
He might even be home early enough to kiss Betty and read a book to his kids. And, of course, he’d work in a fabulous open-plan office in Manhattan’s most desired commercial real estate market, Midtown South. Read More
Lee & Associates is moving into a new 22,000 square foot office at 600 Madison Avenue to accommodate the real estate services firm’s surging growth in recent months.
The company is taking the entire third floor of 600 Madison Avenue in a four-year sublease from Tiffany & Co., the jewelry company that vacated the property last year to relocate to the high end Midtown South building 200 Fifth Avenue. Read More
The owners of 28-46 West 23rd Street are exploring an expansion of the building amid a hot streak in the Midtown South office district that has driven down vacancy and pushed rents up, The Commercial Observer has learned. Read More
As expected (we noted last week this would likely happen and soon), Lehman Brothers has agreed to unload its majority stake in the old Toy Building at 200 Fifth Avenue in a deal that values it at about $700 million. It is one of the biggest building sales of 2011 so far, and one of the most significant moves by the croaked investment bank’s holding company in its campaign to liquidate its real estate. The buyer is a wing of JPMorgan. Read More
On the top floor of 200 Fifth Avenue on Thursday evening, Simone Levinson compared herself to a mafia boss.
“You know how in The Godfather III when Al Pacino says, ‘I keep trying to leave but they just suck me back in?’” she said. “I feel like that with party planning.”
The event—celebrating the Read More
It’s finally official. Tiffany & Co., the legendary jeweler whose Fifth Avenue, multi-tiered wedding cake of a flagship store regularly attracts hordes of bauble-seeking tourists and New Yorkers alike, will relocate its corporate headquarters from midtown Manhattan to the Flatiron district, according to a just-issued press release. The Observer broke the news about Tiffany’s imminent Read More
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Mr. Levinson: They were in the market for a while, looking to develop something Read More
