The accounting and tax services firm FLSV Fund Administration Services will be expanding its office along the Broadway Corridor at W&H Properties’ 1359 Broadway.
Founded by four senior executives from Morgan Stanley in 1995, FLSV has expanded into three offices – in Garden City, New York, and Seattle – and more than 70 professionals. Read More
E-commerce company Borderfree.com (formerly Fifty-one Global E-Commerce) expanded and extended its lease for a total 22,226 square at 292 Madison Avenue, The Commercial Observer has learned.
David L. Hoffmann, Jr. and Bryan Boisi of Cassidy Turley represented the tenant. William G. Cohen and Ryan Kass of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank represented the owner, identified as 292 Madison Avenue Leasehold LLC. Asking rent was in the high $40 to mid $50 a foot range, said Michael Reid, a principal at building manager Herald Square Properties. Read More
LinkedIn inked a full-floor deal for 31,196 square feet at the Empire State Building, bringing its total footprint there to 109,719 square feet.
Sacha Zarba led a team from CBRE representing the tenant. William Cohen and Ryan Kass of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank represented the landlord, Malkin Properties. The social networking site became a direct tenant in the Midtown landmark in 2011, with 31,742 square feet on the 25th floor. It has since expanded to the 23rd, 24th and 39th floors. Read More
Image-licensing company Shutterstock is relocating to the Empire State Building, The Wall Street Journal reports.
The tech startup signed a lease for more than 80,000 square feet on two whole floors of the building, leaving behind 60 Broad Street after the addition of 50 employees following its public offering in October maxed out that space.
“We’ve been growing, and what we want is a more collaborative, open environment,” Shutterstock CEO Jon Oringer told the Journal. “We were looking for really big floor plates, but if you want to go around there [in Midtown], you’d have to look at three or four floors to get the same amount of space.” Read More
LinkedIn, the social network for work professionals that boasts more than 187 million members across 200 countries, is expanding its New York office space in the iconic Empire State Building. The company has inked a 10-years lease for 40,781 square feet of space on the 23rd floor of the building, where it is reaching a total occupancy of 72,523 square feet. The asking rent for the new space was $51 per square foot. Read More
Safe Banking Systems has inked a deal at the Empire State Building to open their first New York office.
Headquartered in Mineola, New York, The anti-money laundering and compliance solutions specialist firm will close their office in Maplewood, New Jersey in favor of opening a 5,384 square foot office in the city.
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Kaltex North America will be expanding inside the Empire State Building, taking 5,946 square feet to grow its total footprint to 41,879 square feet.
The company, which is an affiliate of Mexican textile company Grupo Kaltex, will now have the entire 70th floor and a portion of the 71st floor in the iconic building, as was first reported by The New York Post.
Chip Conklin, Michael Goldman and Dan Posy, all of Studley, represented Kaltex North America in the deal. William Cohen, Ryan Kass, and Shanae Ursini of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank represented Malkin Properties, the landlords of The Empire State Building (350 Fifth Avenue). Read More
LinkedIn is set to expand 10,400 square feet on the 24th floor in the Empire State Building.
“Their sales force is expanding in New York City and they are out of space on their main floor,” Sacha Zarba, a senior vice president ofCBRE explained.
LinkedIn initially moved into the building in 2010 and has maintained Read More
Macro Consultants LLC has doubled their lease at Skyline Developer’s 1040 Avenue of the Americas.
The professional consulting and project management firm currently occupies 9,085 square feet on the ninth floor of the building and will be taking an additional 9,873 square feet on the fifteenth floor for a total of 18,958 square feet.
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LVMH, a purveyor of high-end luxury products, has signed an office lease at the Skyline Developer’s Tower at 20 West 55th Street.
The company, whose portfolio includes more than sixty brands in five sectors, will use its new 3,874-square-foot space for general, executive, and administrative offices, brokers involved with the deal told The Commercial Observer. Read More
Dorma Group North America will be opening its first New York showroom at 1040 Sixth Avenue.
The firm will be taking a 8,400 square foot unit on the 22nd floor of the 24-story, 300,000 square foot historic Art Deco building. The asking rent was $52 per square foot and the lease was set for ten Read More
Lankler Siffert & Wohl, a law firm that specializes in civil litigation and white-collar criminal cases, has agreed to renew and expand its lease at 500 Fifth Avenue, growing to a total of 27,872 square feet, The Commercial Observer has learned.
The firm, which has been in the Bryant Park office building for 25 years, renewed its lease for 22,753 square feet on the 33rd and 34th floors of the building while tacking on an additional 5,119 square feet on the 35th floor.
Harry Blair and Sean Kearns, two Cushman & Wakefield brokers who act as the exclusive leasing agents in the building, represented the owner, 500 Fifth Ave. Inc.
Ryan Kass and William Cohen of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank represented Lankler Siffert & Wohl LLP. Messrs. Kass and Cohen were not immediately available for comment. A partner at Lankler Siffert & Wohl did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The new lease is for 10 years. Average asking rents for the three floors was $69-a-square-foot.
In a statement, Mr. Blair said that Lankler Siffert & Wohl wanted to remain in 500 Fifth Avenue. Read More
Midtown is starting to matter again.
At least that’s the view to take from commercial real estate deals like Japanese financial firm Nomura Holding’s $60-per-square-foot, 20-year lease for a plush 47-story headquarters at 825 Eighth Avenue.
The arrival of a Japanese multinational at the Worldwide Plaza property embodies the roller-coaster ride of the Midtown office market over the past five years. It was bought by Harry Macklowe for $1.7 billion in 2007, only to be sold at a 60 percent discount two years later in a fire sale that saw George Comfort & Sons snatch it up for $600 million in 2009 when the building was half vacant. Read More
Ecommerce business FiftyOne Ecommerce will be moving from its fifth floor offices at 8 W. 40th Street to two floors of pre-built space at 292 Madison Avenue, the NY Post reports. Read More
In a scene reminiscent of the Oscars, Newmark Knight Frank’s Executive Managing Director Lance Korman learned he had won the national brokerage firm’s “Top Producing Broker of the Year” accolade on the very night of the awards ceremony. Read More
