#Manhattan leasing data shows dip in fourth quarter of 2022

#Manhattan leasing data shows dip in fourth quarter of 2022

“Manhattan leasing data shows dip in fourth quarter of 2022” There is good news, of a sort, for nervous Manhattan office landlords: Leasing for 2022 totaled 23.21 million square feet, up 14% over the year before, according to CBRE. But how couldn’t it be, given the pandemic freeze of 2021? The bad news: most fourth-quarter data stunk….

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#Madison Avenue tower reopens with leafy oasis under glass canopy

#Madison Avenue tower reopens with leafy oasis under glass canopy

“Madison Avenue tower reopens with leafy oasis under glass canopy” Midtown strollers might blink when they pass 550 Madison Ave., the landmarked office tower that’s been redesigned and repositioned by the Olayan Group. The tower’s block-long public arcade between East 55th and 56th streets, closed for several years, reopened last week twice as large as its…

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#Real estate insiders take swipe at Back-to-Work Barometer

#Real estate insiders take swipe at Back-to-Work Barometer

“Real estate insiders take swipe at Back-to-Work Barometer” The widely cited Kastle Systems Back-to-Work Barometer, which claims to tally how many employees have returned to offices, misses hundreds of skyscrapers with the highest attendance — and the result is a whopping undercount, real estate insiders say. Kastle counts entry swipes only at office buildings that pay…

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#PR firm Edelman bucks work-from-home trend with renewed lease in Hudson Square

#PR firm Edelman bucks work-from-home trend with renewed lease in Hudson Square

“PR firm Edelman bucks work-from-home trend with renewed lease in Hudson Square” As Manhattan’s physical office occupancy continues to fluctuate around 41%, as per Kastle Systems’ Back-to-Work Barometer, it seems counterintuitive that many companies show no sign of cutting back their space. In one of this year’s largest rebuttals to the “work from home” panic, public…

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#New tenants sign at JEMB Realty Corp.’s Willoughby Square

#New tenants sign at JEMB Realty Corp.’s Willoughby Square

“New tenants sign at JEMB Realty Corp.’s Willoughby Square” Three new deals have brought JEMB Realty Corp.’s 1 Willoughby Square to nearly 50 percent leased. The new tenants will join FXCollaborative, the building’s architect and anchor tenant, in what is Brooklyn’s tallest office tower. The highly diverse new arrivals are Propel, a fin-tech company, which will…

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#Gov. Kathy Hochul’s insane, impossible carbon-free plan

#Gov. Kathy Hochul’s insane, impossible carbon-free plan

“Gov. Kathy Hochul’s insane, impossible carbon-free plan” Gov. Kathy Hochul has fully embraced one of the very worst obsessions of her disgraced predecessor: a war on carbon emissions. The centerpiece is the Climate Leadership and Climate Protection Act that then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo got passed in 2019 in a blatant bid to boost his chances of…

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