Club Monaco is moving on up to the northeast side of Broadway and Spring Street.
The mid-price casual apparel company signed a 15-year, 5,100-square-foot lease at Thor Equities‘ 532 Broadway in Soho and will move there from its current 14,500-square-foot location at 520 Broadway.
Robert Cohen of RKF represented the tenant. Joseph Sitt‘s Thor Equities represented the landlord in-house. Asking rents were $800 per square foot. Read More
Vornado Realty Trust has reportedly taken control of the ground lease at the landmarked 11-story Swiss Center at 608 Fifth Avenue, where the REIT is marketing 44,440 square feet of retail space across four of its floors.
Vornado took over RFR Realty’s mortgage on the property last March with an $8.5 million payment that RFR owed to another lender and signed the ground lease on the property with the family of the late Sarah Korein, which owns the land under the building, according to the New York Post. Read More
Michael Kors will be opening a new flagship store in Soho.
The purveyor of womenswear, currently operating out of 101 Prince Street in Soho, will grab 15,000 square feet at 520 Broadway for its new flagship. Coincidentally, the deal comes in light of the recent surge in popularity of their wristwatches and handbags. Read More
Retailer Michael Kors has expanded its headquarters at Tishman Speyers’ 11 West 42nd Street building in a deal that will see its footprint there grow to almost 120,000 square feet, sources told The Commercial Observer. Read More
Ted Baker, the high-end clothing retailer, will open a flagship store at 595 Fifth Avenue, it was announced today.
The U.K.-based company signed a long-term net lease for 12,000 square feet at the corner of 48th Street and Fifth Avenue, just down from retail icon Saks Fifth Avenue. Ted Baker will use three of the five floors of the building, which they will rent in its entirety, for retail, while the balance are for office and showroom uses. Just a block from high-profile tenants Michael Kors and LaCoste, the space could command up to $2000 per square foot, sources not affiliated with the deal speculated. Read More
Even exquisitely uncomfortable pointy-toed dress shoes can’t keep Michael Kors from practically any retail neighborhood in the city he so desires.
It reportedly took ages to lure the designer to check out Unago’s former space on Madison Avenue for his New York City flagship. But once they got him through the door, Read More
384 Bleecker Street
‘Tis the season of fashion, and Michael Kors has celebrated by opening yet another retail location.
The designer to the fabulous set has signed a 12-year lease for a corner spot at 384 Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village totaling 1,475 square feet.
“Michael Kors will be an exciting new Read More
790 Madison Avenue
The new Michael Kors store on Madison Avenue was, according to the Dana Commercial Group of Prudential Douglas Elliman, a shining illustration of the “traditional” tenets of real estate brokerage. Namely, a location, a meeting and some ink on a dotted line.
With the former Ungaro store, Read More
It’s official. Michael Kors will open a flagship store at the Madison Avenue site of the failed Emanual Ungaro, according to the broker who completed the deal.
The possibility was first reported in Thursday’s New York Post, in a story about the Ungaro fashion house’s search for a buyer. The French house famously hired Read More
11 West 42nd Street
Michael Kors, the designer whose crossover appeal extends from Jessica Simpson to Long Island grandmothers, is expanding his headquarters. Project Runway notoriety has apparently been good to the designer, whose streamlined all-American brand with a country-club bent has grown in recent years to include accessories, handbags, menswear, and lower-priced lines (Michael Read More
