The new ownership of a former teddy bear factory at 497 Broome Street in SoHo is breathing new life into a building that’s available for lease for the first time since it was built in 1900, The Commercial Observer has learned.
A.M. Properties and Quality Capital have appointed Cushman & Wakefield as exclusive leasing agent Read More
Scott Rechler’s RXR Realty has signed a 99-year triple-net lease at British department store tycoon Mohamed Al Faye’s 75 Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown Manhattan, where it plans to undertake a major capital improvement to reposition the building.
The 33-story building will be fully vacated by Time Warner Cable in 2014, leaving behind roughly 630,000 square feet of rentable area, and the renovations will include a new lobby and a restoration of its landmarked, classic limestone façade, executives at RXR said. Read More
Tara Stacom and Michael Rotchford, executives at Cushman & Wakefield, took top honors at REBNY’s annual Most Ingenious Deal of the Year Award last night for their work representing the owners of One World Trade Center in the large office lease that was done there last year with the publishing and media giant Conde Nast.
The event, which dolls out a trio of awards, ended with three prominent women as winners, a notable result in the male-dominated leasing and sales brokerage business. Read More
The real estate investor and British department store tycoon Mohamed Al Fayed is exploring a sale of the Manhattan office tower 75 Rockefeller Plaza.
According to executives who have been briefed on the offering, Mr. Al Fayed is aiming to negotiate a leasehold of the property in which he would continue to own the land under the 600,000-square-foot building and collect rent but put control of the asset in the hands of an investor. Read More
Cushman & Wakefield has been tapped as leasing agent for Brookfield Office Properties’ massive 5.4 million-square-foot Manhattan West development on Ninth Avenue between West 31st and 33rd streets.
The new development boasts two new office towers at 2 million square feet apiece, along with a smaller tower–just by a hair, at 1.2 million square feet — and a fourth building at 200,000 square feet that will be a mixed-use space. Read More
