The Year in Review

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2012: The Year Tech Invaded NYC Real Estate

This past February, 10Gen, developer of the computer system database MongoDB, was in search of new office space, specifically in tech- and media-rich Midtown South.

The company needed a large open layout for its workers, with an option for more space to allow the firm to grow—plus an option to terminate. Unfortunately, the ultra-tight market Read More

Lease Beat

620 Avenue of the Americas

Spotify Close To 620 6th Avenue Deal

Spotify is on the verge of signing a 73,000-square-foot lease for the entire seventh floor of 620 Avenue of the Americas several sources familiar with the deal say.

The company, which provides online streaming music services, will move to the building from 111 Eighth Avenue. Read More

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675 Avenue of the Americas

Weight Watchers Signs 125K S/F Deal

Weight Watchers is signing a 125,000-square-foot lease at 675 Avenue of the Americas for its Manhattan headquarters.

The company will relocate from 11 Madison Avenue, where it was subleasing space from the insurance company AON.

As of press time, the terms of the company’s deal, including the rental rate it was agreeing to pay nor the length of the lease, were yet clear. Read More

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620 Avenue of the Americas

Spotify Looks at 73K s/f Deal on Ladies’ Mile

Spotify, the online music streaming service, is looking at a deal to take the entire seventh floor of the office building 620 Avenue of the Americas several sources told The Commercial Observer.

The space, the top floor in the roughly one million-square-foot building, is 73,000 square feet and one of the prime vacancies in the hot Ladies’ Mile submarket of Midtown South. Read More