Squarespace Grows to 143,000 SF at 225 Varick Street
By Rebecca Baird-Remba October 12, 2017 1:43 pm
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Hosting platform and website builder Squarespace has leased two more floors at 225 Varick Street in Hudson Square.
Squarespace inked a 12-year deal for 49,700 square feet on the fifth and sixth floors of the building, where it already leased 93,000 square feet on the 10th through 12th floors in 2014. Asking rent on the new lease was in the high $70s per square foot, according to The Real Deal, which was the first to write about the transaction.
The tech firm is expected to move into its new space in April 2018, according to CoStar (CSGP) Group.
Shake Shack also signed on for 27,000 square feet of office and retail space in the property between Clarkson and West Houston Streets last month. The upscale burger spot will open a flagship restaurant in the ground-floor retail space and a test kitchen on the lower level in mid-2018. It will also move its offices, which are currently located in Union Square, into part of the third floor in the spring of 2018.
Rocco Laginestra and Paul Myers of CBRE (CBRE) represented Squarespace in the deal, and CBRE’s Howard Fiddle, Paul Amrich and Neil King represented landlords Trinity Real Estate, Norges Bank Real Estate Management and Hines. A spokeswoman for CBRE declined to comment.
