The Little Retail Neighborhood That Could? FiDi’s 75 Wall Aims for Fifth Avenue
A pair of space-suited astronaut arms reaches out from a wall on the ground floor of 75 Wall Street, flanking a television that plays an animation of a control panel whose hand-drawn screen flashes the...
View ArticleRelated Is This Close to Signing Its First Hudson Yards Lease
Filling up fast? (Related) And then it can start building. Rumors of Coach signing a leasing at Hudson Yards are nothing new, and First Boston is also interested in the far West Side, as The Observer...
View Article600,000 Square Feet of Office Space in the Bag for Coach
Luxury handbag stalwart Coach will relocate its offices to the Hudson Yards, scooping up approximately one-third of the planned south office tower as a commercial condo in a deal that will give the New...
View ArticleThe Iron Lady
Two years ago this month, CBRE tristate chief executive Mary Ann Tighe rattled cages when the Real Estate Board of New York named her its first female chairwoman in the 116-year-old organization’s...
View ArticleCoach Adding 150,000 SF to Hudson Yards
Coach, the purveyor of luxury leather goods, has agreed to add 150,000 square feet to its already sizable footprint at the South Tower at Hudson Yards, The NY Post reports. All told, the deal would...
View ArticleLeasing in 2nd Quarter Quickly Outpacing 1st Quarter Numbers: Report
A total of 6.3 million square feet of office space has been leased out in the first two months of the 2nd quarter in 2012, already well above the 5.57 million square feet that was leased out in the...
View ArticleGroundbreaking At Hudson Yards
A rendering of the South Tower at Hudson Yards Just hours from now, Related Companies will break ground on its new office tower in Hudson Yards, on Manhattan’s west side. The company is planning a...
View ArticleHudson Yards Breaks Ground for South Tower
A rendering of the Hudson Yards complex towers, situated near the river on Manhattan's west side. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was on hand Tuesday as Related Companies broke ground on the first of...
View Article50 Midtown Assets Shouldered With 100,000-Square-Foot Blocks of Vacancy
Talk about a nice round number—50! Well, maybe not so nice, as 50 is the total number of Midtown Manhattan buildings with at least 100,000 square feet of (mostly) contiguous availability. (I say...
View ArticleKing of the Yard: Related’s Jay Cross on Reimagining the Far West Side
As president of the New York Jets, Jay Cross spent the first half of the 2000s immersed in the plans for the New York Sports and Convention Center on the Far West Side. The plan collapsed and the Jets’...
View ArticleL’Oréal USA Inks 402,000 SF Lease at Hudson Yards
L’Oréal USA has inked a 402,000-square-foot of space at the South Tower of Hudson Yards, the developers of the 15-million-square-foot project on the far west side of Manhattan announced yesterday....
View ArticleSAP Inks 115,000 SF Lease at Hudson Yards
SAP has inked a lease for 115,000 square feet of space at the South Tower of Hudson Yards, the developers of the 15-million-square-foot project on the far west side of Manhattan announced yesterday....
View ArticleDevelopment Projects Abound, But Boroughs Still Under-Retailed
New York City is the number one retail location in the world. Retailers from around the world flock to open flagship stores throughout the Big Apple. Apple’s store on Fifth Avenue, with its familiar...
View ArticleWhat About Bob: CBRE’s Robert Alexander on Hudson Yards
In 2005, CBRE broker Mary Ann Tighe told The New York Times that there had never been a “phenomenon quite like Bob Alexander.” What’s more phenomenal is that the 58-year-old chairman of the firm’s...
View ArticleFairway Market Inks on Far West Side at Hudson Yards
Fairway Market, the upscale grocer with more than a dozen locations across the tristate area, has inked a 46,000-square-foot deal at the center of the highly anticipated Hudson Yards complex. The new...
View ArticleLawyer’s View: Borrowers
Jonathan Mechanic Fried Frank Partner & Chairman of the Real Estate Department In 2012 and the beginning of 2013, your firm, with partners Stephen Lefkowitz and Tal Galomb, represented Related...
View ArticleRelated Hires CBRE’s Stephen Winter
On the heels of his inclusion in The Commercial Observer’s “30 Under 30” list last month, CBRE’s Stephen Winter is bouncing over to Related Companies as its new vice president of commercial leasing,...
View ArticleThe House That L’Oreal Built
Back in 2011, Coach agreed to pay a reported $750 million for its 740,000-square-foot global corporate headquarters in Related’s South Tower at Hudson Yards. SAP Americaand L’Oréal USA concurrently...
View ArticleNeiman Marcus Negotiating Hudson Yards Deal
Dallas-based department store Neiman Marcus is reportedly negotiating a deal for a New York flagship store at Hudson Yards. The New York Post reported that the upscale retailer is in talks with Related...
View ArticleThe Next Hot Submarket?
Human nature keeps us searching for the Next Big Thing. And when it comes to New York real estate, Lower Manhattan certainly comes to mind based on the dramatic changes underway. But there is another...
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