What happened, and who moved.

Tempo signed a headquarters lease in San Diego to support industrial electrification operations.
Northrop Grumman renewed 168,000 square feet of office space near San Diego.

Zimmet Law Group is relocating its practice inside Manhattan’s Plaza District. Zimmet signed a 5,476-square-foot lease for a newly completed space inside GFP Real Estate’s 515 Madison Avenue, also known as the DuMont Building. Located at the corner of East 53rd Street, the 42-story office tower is just one block…
Famed denim and clothing brand Madewell is opening a new store at Tishman Speyer’s 1 Rockefeller Plaza, the landlord announced Thursday. The retailer signed a 7,340-square-foot lease at the Midtown landmark, where its new space will open in 2027. The asking rent and the length of the lease were not disclosed, but…

Happy Corner Hospitality has signed a lease in Manhattan’s NoMad neighborhood for an offshoot of their Motek concept. Known as Yalla Motek, the restaurant group took 2,500 square feet at David and Jack Israel’s 1147 Broadway, which will be the new Mediterranean chain’s first location in New York City and second in…

An artificial intelligence-driven fund administrator is moving its headquarters to TF Cornerstone’s 387 Park Avenue South, Commercial Observer has learned. Hanover Park signed a 19,269-square-foot lease on the entire 10th floor of the NoMad property, marking its fifth office move in two years, according to CEO…

Office furniture manufacturer Haworth is staying seated at 125 Park Avenue. Haworth has signed a 10-year lease renewal for its 30,365-square-foot office and showroom space at the 25-story Midtown office building, landlord SL Green Realty announced Wednesday. The company, which manufactures and sells high-end,…

Health care technology company SuperDial has inked a full-floor lease at GFP Real Estate’s 322 Eighth Avenue, according to a Wednesday announcement by the landlord. SuperDial’s 5,200-square-foot lease spans the entire 20th floor of the Chelsea office tower on the northeast corner of Eighth Avenue and West 26th…
An artificial intelligence-powered insurance technology company subleasing space in Hudson Square has the attention of Gov. Kathy Hochul. While WithCoverage is only taking 17,663 square feet at GFP Real Estate’s 200 Varick Street, Hochul emphasized future economic benefits of the deal, such as the creation of 205…

Priddy Spaces has signed a 20,000-square-foot lease for a Venture X coworking location in Pompano Beach, Fla. The coworking operator signed a 10-year lease at a 44,102-square-foot office property within Grover Corlew’s Mayla Pompano mixed-use development. Located at 2335 East Atlantic Boulevard, the four-story…
Artificial intelligence-powered wealth management platform Vise is moving from SoHo to 50 Ninth Avenue in the Meatpacking District, where it will quadruple its office space to 11,949 square feet. The space spans the second floor of several combined historic townhomes along the Ninth Avenue frontage and therefore…

A major media company is moving its advertising headquarters to Broadway. Comcast Advertising, the advertising sales and technology division of Comcast, has signed a 140,000-square-foot lease at 1540 Broadway, owned by GFP Real Estate and BDT & MSD Partners. The deal represents a relocation for Comcast from 55 West…

Architecture and design firm SWA Group has signed a 5,789-square-foot lease at Olmstead Properties’ 381 Park Avenue South in Midtown South, the landlord announced Tuesday. The 10.5-year lease for the global landscape architecture, planning and urban design firm will stretch across part of the building’s 12th floor.…
Global investment management firm Capital Group is taking space for an additional office in New York City. Capital Group, which is based in Los Angeles and oversees $3.6 trillion in assets, signed a 10-year lease for the entire 70,400-square-foot fourth floor of Rudin’s 345 Park Avenue in Midtown, according to the…
Law firm Greenberg Traurig is relocating to another Related Ross building in Downtown West Palm Beach, Fla. The firm signed a 10-year lease to occupy about 25,000 square feet at the 15 CityPlace office development, which remains under construction, the tenant announced. The deal spans the entire 12th floor of the…

Washington D.C.-based law firm Dunn Isaacson Rhee is establishing a new office in New York City. The firm, which specializes in high stakes trials, investigations and crisis management, has inked an 11,167-square-foot lease on the 34th floor of 7 World Trade Center, developer and landlord Silverstein Properties…

Nonprofit group Alliance for Downtown New York has expanded its Lower Manhattan footprint to 42 Broadway. The Downtown Alliance, which manages the area’s business improvement district, secured a 14,420-square-foot lease at the Financial District tower, according to a recent CBRE office market report. The Downtown…

New York-based private equity group OceanSound Partners has expanded by more than 10,000 square feet at SL Green Realty’s 450 Park Avenue office tower in Midtown. A new five-year lease secured OceanSound 32,032 square feet across the entire eighth, 22nd and 23rd floors of the office tower at the corner of Park…
An international advertising agency is more than doubling its office footprint with a new headquarters lease in El Segundo, Calif. Innocean USA signed the 101,000-square-foot deal at Hackman Capital Partners’ creative office campus in the small enclave just south of Los Angeles International Airport. The agency…

Architecture firm Selldorf Architects has renewed its 10-year, 13,815-square-foot lease at Gordon Property Group’s 860 Broadway. Selldorf has called the Flatiron District’s 860 Broadway home for the last two decades, according to landlord brokerage Colliers. The asking rent was not disclosed. However, the average…

An artificial intelligence-driven document processing firm is relocating within the Flatiron District, Commercial Observer has learned Extend AI signed an 8,750-square-foot lease across the entire sixth floor of 119 Fifth Avenue in a relocation from its current offices at 135 West 29th Street, according to the…
Predication and betting site Polymarket has doubled its footprint at 78 Crosby Street to 12,700 square feet, adding the fifth floor to the space it already leases on the fourth floor. Polymarket has been headquartered at the Lower Manhattan building since 2023. Its original lease for 6,350 square feet was also…

The immigration attorneys at Manifest Law will be making some of their own moves, Commercial Observer has learned. The law firm signed a 18,200-square-foot sublease at Koeppel Rosen’s 902 Broadway, where it will be taking over space previously occupied by Adaptive Security, according to tenant brokerage Nomad…

Restaurateurs Danny Abrams and Cindy Smith are making a splash on the Upper West Side. The couple and co-founders of New England-style seafood spot Mermaid Inn have selected 61 West 74th Street for their next venture, Commercial Observer has learned. Abrams secured the 2,300-square-foot lease, plus a basement…
Nordstrom Rack has signed a 22,000-square-foot lease in Wellington, Fla., the Seattle-based retailer announced Thursday. Nordstrom Rack is the discount concept run by Nordstrom. The new store, set to open in spring 2027, will be at The Shoppes at Isla Verde at 800-1020 South State Road 7. Other tenants include Best…

Warp, an artificial intelligence-driven employee management platform, has more than tripled its office footprint for the second time in 12 months. The startup recently secured a 16,500-square-foot expansion to fully occupy the seventh floor at 156 Fifth Avenue, less than a year after settling at the Flatiron…

Maybern, a financial technology company that specializes in fund management solutions for private markets, has signed a long-term lease renewal at 10 Astor Place, nearly tripling its footprint in the GFP Real Estate-owned building. As part of the deal, Maybern will grow from 11,000 square feet to 30,000 square…

We can discuss the ethics of artificial intelligence creating art all day long, but the fact is these companies aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, and they need office space. Generative AI music platform Suno has taken 12,048 square feet across the fifth floor of 515 West 20th Street for its first New York City…

A biotechnology firm is relocating its lab space from West Harlem to Midtown South. Volastra Therapeutics signed an 18,120-square-foot lease in the Alexandria Center for Life Science at 430 East 29th Street, owned by Alexandria Real Estate Equities, according to CBRE. Volastra is subleasing space on the 11th floor…
Why did the chicken cross the continent? To get to new customers on the other side. Popular fast-casual grilled chicken restaurant El Pollo Loco has signed a lease to open its first-ever East Coast location in New York City, Commercial Observer has learned. El Pollo Loco signed a 10-year lease for 2,400 square feet…
Federal IT contractor TekSynap has signed a long-term lease for a 26,500-square-foot floor at BXP’s Reston Town Center in Northern Virginia. TekSynap provides cloud integration, cybersecurity, software development and IT modernization services for civilian, defense and intelligence agencies. The Reston-based…

Two new retail tenants have taken almost 13,000 square feet at a new development in Downtown Brooklyn. Japanese home goods and apparel brand Muji was the largest of the two, signing a 10-year, 10,000-square-foot lease at Alloy Development’s 100 Flatbush Avenue, part of the larger five-building, mixed-use Alloy…
Apparel retail brand Veronica Beard has expanded its office headquarters to approximately 60,000 square feet at the Winter Organization’s 26 West 17th Street in Midtown South, according to landlord broker CBRE. The company, which has been in the building since about 2013, signed the new deal to renew its existing…
So you think Manhattan office leasing has a summer slump? Fuhgeddaboudit! Manhattan office leasing velocity in July increased by 22 percent over June’s volume, helped along by healthy square-footage appetites and ample activity in Midtown South. Tenants acquired, renewed, expanded or extended 3.87 million square…

Emmy nominated visual effects studio Phosphene has inked a 7,383-square-foot lease at Princeton International’s 90 Broad Street in Manhattan’s Financial District, according to tenant broker Avison Young. Phosphene will move from its current office at 5 Hanover Square, also in the Financial District, as the building…
Snap, the technology firm behind Snapchat, is taking over Verizon’s three-floor office lease in Manhattan’s Penn District. The 198,983-square-foot sublease spans the eighth through and 10th floors of Vornado Realty Trust’s 2 Pennsylvania Plaza, known as Penn 2, according to sources familiar with the transaction.…

Mediation firm JAMS — the name is an abbreviation of judicial arbitration and mediation services — is relocating its New York Resolution Center to the top two floors of Rudin’s 3 Times Square. The global provider of alternative dispute resolution services plans to take up 55,335 square feet across the Midtown…

A bipedal artificial intelligence firm is evolving into a new Midtown South office, Commercial Observer has learned. Financial and operations analytics firm Sapien AI signed a lease for approximately 10,500 square feet on the entire fifth floor of the Kaufman Organization’s newly acquired 48 West 25th Street,…

This TLC wasn’t exactly chasing waterfalls, just a new office. The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission is relocating to AmTrustRE’s 250 Broadway across the street from City Hall Park in Manhattan’s Financial District, the property owner announced Thursday. The TLC is relocating its headquarters from another…

Architecture firm Rock Architecture & Engineering has signed a 3,835-square-foot deal to extend and expand its presence at GFP Real Estate’s 630 Ninth Avenue, the landlord announced Thursday. The firm, which specializes in building restoration projects and gets its name from a focus on solid foundations, will move…

The restaurateurs behind Mexican restaurant Mezcali and American tavern the Malt House have signed a lease for a new food concept in Manhattan’s Financial District. Eoin Foyle and Darren Shore signed a 20-year, 4,744-square-foot lease in the retail component of TF Cornerstone’s 2 Gold Street, where they will launch…

An artificial intelligence-driven infrastructure technology company is relocating its offices to Midtown. Philadelphia-based Treeswift signed a four-year, 7,487-square-foot lease on the entire 11th floor of the Hakimian Organization’s 256 West 38th Street in an expansion of its New York City operations, according…

Simone Development Companies has brought its two-story, 27,275-square-foot medical and office building at 1733 Eastchester Road in the Bronx’s Morris Park neighborhood to full occupancy, according to the firm. The building’s last vacant space was leased in June, when the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)…
Whole Foods Market has signed a lease to open its version of a mini-mart on the Upper East Side. The Amazon-owned grocery chain closed an 8,121-square-foot deal for one of its small-scale concepts on the ground floor of ConTowers Associates LP’s 1524 Second Avenue, also known as the Continental Towers, according to…

Suffolk Construction is moving its office within Downtown West Palm Beach after signing a 19,000-square-foot lease at the Echo boutique building. The builder will relocate to the top floor of the four-story building at 205 Datura Street, which sits adjacent to South Narcissus Avenue, the tenant announced. The new…

Interior design firm Cynde Altheim Interiors is holding onto its third-floor lease at 149 West 36th Street. Cynde Altheim will maintain its 6,740-square-foot office space in the Frangene Company-owned building, located between Broadway and Seventh Avenue. The design firm, which operates under the name of Mark David…

An artificial intelligence-powered management platform designed to help law firms has signed an office lease on the Lower East Side, Commercial Observer has learned. AI platform Sandstone signed a five-year deal spanning 13,794 square feet on the entire third and fourth floors of East End Capital’s 141 East Houston…

The office staff of London-based fashion label Manière De Voir is making the jump across the pond. The fashion brand has signed an 11,200-square-foot office lease at 599 Broadway in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood to open its first U.S. headquarters, Commercial Observer has learned. The move comes as the retailer…

Alert the Queen, here come the corgis! OK, not exactly. Corgi Cafe, a 24/7 coffee shop from Corgi, an artificial intelligence-powered insurance company — no, really — is getting ready to open its first location in New York City, Commercial Observer can first report. The tenant, which will operate a round-the-clock…

A new golf club is being teed up for Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood. Gowanus Golf Club, a Brooklyn-based private indoor golf club chain, has leased approximately 6,000 square feet along the Dumbo waterfront at 215 Water Street, Commercial Observer has learned. The five-story mixed-use building between Bridge and Jay…

Technology platform Genius AI, formerly known as GlossGenius, has undertaken a 13,754-square-foot headquarters expansion at ZG Capital Partners’ 838 Broadway, Commercial Observer has learned. The deal sees Genius AI’s footprint at 838 Broadway grow to 27,373 square feet, occupying the entire second and third…

Fashion Nova is expanding its Southern California logistics side with another industrial lease in Santa Fe Springs. The Los Angeles-based fast-fashion retailer signed a lease to take over the 132,888-square-foot warehouse at 12301 Hawkins Street, according to CoStar. It increases Fashion Nova’s warehouse footprint…

Legora, a company that developed a collaborative artificial intelligence-driven workspace for the legal profession, has signed a new 10-year lease for 98,420 square feet — the entire 11th floor — at SL Green Realty’s 11 Madison Avenue. This brings the building to 100 percent occupancy. SL Green was represented by…

SL Green is reaping the rewards of a resurgent New York City office market. “It might be the dead of summer, but our team is, of course, hard at work — this is truly when we shine the brightest, are completely dialed in on our business plan, and outwork the marketing,” said CEO Marc Holliday, […]

Another artificial intelligence firm is planting roots in Midtown South. Chalk AI, a data platform that provides companies with infrastructure to deliver data to AI agents, has signed a lease for 26,607 square feet at Castro Properties’ 43 West 23rd Street in the Flatiron District, according to landlord broker…

The Durst Organization has announced three leases totaling 11,223 square feet for prebuilt office suites at the company’s 1133 Avenue of the Americas, Commercial Observer has learned. In the largest of these, software company Quantexa signed a new lease for 5,263 square feet at the building. The U.K.-based firm…
Google’s parent company has quadrupled its office footprint in Miami, Bloomberg reported. Alphabet inked a lease for about 45,000 square feet at 1450 Brickell Avenue this spring, where it had been leasing about 10,000 square feet. The tech giant has been stationed at the 34-story building since 2016. Developer…
Get your popcorn ready, Los Angeles. One of Hollywood’s most beloved movie theaters is finally coming back. Sony Pictures Entertainment and its Alamo Drafthouse Cinema subsidiary announced Wednesday they struck a long-term lease to restore and reopen the Cinerama Dome on Sunset Boulevard and the adjacent 14-screen…

SL Green Realty has signed two deals totaling 34,564 square feet at its 20-story Midtown East office building at 711 Third Avenue, Commercial Observer has learned. In the largest deal, title insurance and settlement provider Fidelity National Title Insurance signed a new lease for 19,966 square feet on a portion of…

Two tenants have signed on for 6,960 square feet each at Midtown East’s 757 Third Avenue, Commercial Observer has learned. Yuco Management, a New York City-based real estate development and management firm, inked a deal to take over the entire 27th floor of the 26-story Class A office building owned by New York…