Following RXR Realty’s $700 million acquisition of 450 Lexington Avenue last year, six of the firm’s top executives met with sellers Daniel Saliba and Mark Troy of Istithmar World Capital for a closing dinner at Lavo, the Italian restaurant on Manhattan’s East Side.
A round of toasts that evening, most agreed, was in stark contrast 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
Cushman & Wakefield has been appointed by RXR Realty as the exclusive leasing agent for roughly 100,000 square feet being vacated by Pearson at 1330 Avenue of the Americas, where ownership recently completed a capital improvement program and a rare signage opportunity awaits a prospective anchor tenant.
Floors 7 through 10, 14, 16 and 17 will come online in the 40-story trophy building in January 2014, after Pearson vacates the space, freeing up four sides of illuminated signage atop the building (the signage is currently branded “FT” for Pearson-owned Financial Times) for the new tenancy to broadcast its image into the Manhattan skyline.
“We want it to be the right image for the right company, and one that takes a meaningful presence in the building,” said William Elder, leasing director with RXR Realty. “This is a very rare opportunity that allows for top of building signage just outside of Times Square. Read More
Artisan Partners has expanded their presence at RXR‘s 1330 Avenue of the Americas.
The independent investment management firm moved into the building a year ago taking the entire 10,000 square feet on the 31st floor. Recent growth has led the firm to take another 5,800 square feet on the 27th floor.
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It’s not just tech companies that have been flooding Midtown South, a neighborhood that has dramatically risen in popularity even as Midtown and Downtown have stagnated.
Firefly Value Partners LP, an investment management firm, has signed an 11,000-square-foot lease at the Starrett-Lehigh Building, the property’s owner RXR Realty announced. Read More
RXR Realty has signed furnishings giant Knoll, Inc. on for 50,000 square feet of space at its 1330 Avenue of the Americas. Knoll will most make the move to the second through fourth floors at the 534,000-square-foot building during the first quarter of 2013. Read More
The investment management firm run by director George Lucas’s girlfriend has signed an office deal at 340 Madison Avenue.
Ariel Investments, a Chicago based financial company, will take 6,500 square feet on the building’s 18th floor. Rents at the 660,000-square-foot office tower, which is owned by the prolific real estate investment firm RXR Realty, range from the upper $60s to the low $70s per square foot though the exact rate that Ariel will pay was not disclosed in RXR’s announcement this morning of the deal. Read More
