The CoStar Group’s list of the top 50 Manhattan office leases (by square footage) that were finalized in 2008 appears in this week’s issue of Crain’s (though it isn’t available online). By our count, 7 of these 50 leases were inked for space in green office buildings. Importantly, the top two leases overall were in green buildings (1515 Broadway and 375 Hudson Street, respectively). We’ve written about a number of these buildings before, and present each lease below along with links to pertinent posts at gbNYC. We also set forth the tower’s third-party certification status (if any), tenant, landlord, and total square footage of the deal.
Last year, in an article addressing CoStar's same compilation of 2007 leases , we suggested that it would "definitely be interesting to see how this list changes in the next year, both in terms of a softening economy and the number of leases that we expect to see finalized on pending green projects (such as 11 Times Square) during the course of 2008." While leases at 11 Times Square and 250 West 55th Street did not materialize, it is difficult to ignore the fact that the top two commercial deals in Manhattan in 2008 were in green office buildings. Given what's happening out there right now, it's obviously anyone's guess as to how this list will look in 2009. Just for comparison's sake, though, the 2007 iteration featured 9 out of 50 leases in green buildings, including 3 of the top 10 (though last year's 7th largest transaction, Gibson Dunn's 220,000 square feet at 250 West 55th Street, is now a question mark given Boston Properties' recent suspension of that project).
#1, 1515 Broadway (Pursuing LEED-EB certification in connection with $162 million capital improvement program) Tenant: Viacom, 1,289,243 square feet (renewal) Landlord: SL Green Submarket: Times Square
#2, 375 Hudson Street (2007 Energy Star Award winner) Tenant: Saatchi & Saatchi, 819,325 square feet (renewal) Landlord: Tishman Speyer Submarket: Hudson Square
#5, 636 Eleventh Avenue (Seeking unspecified level of LEED certification) Tenant: Ogilvy & Mather, 554,800 square feet Landlord: The Hakimian Organization Submarket: Times Square
#22, 7 World Trade Center (LEED Gold-certified) Tenant: WestLB, 129,024 square feet Landlord: Silverstein Properties Submarket: World Trade Center
#23, 100 Park Avenue (Pursuing LEED-EB Silver in connection with $72 million capital improvement program) Tenant: BDO Seidman, 121,441 square feet Landlord: SL Green Submarket: Grand Central
#35, 7 Times Square (Pursuing LEED-EB certification) Tenant: Pryor Cashman, 100,000 square feet Landlord: Boston Properties Submarket: Times Square #49, 770 Broadway (Pursuing LEED-EB certification) Tenant: America Online, 76,069 square feet (pursuing LEED-CI certification) Landlord: Vornado Submarket: Greenwich Village
- 770 Broadway (gbNYC)
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