7 WTC

Last June, HSBC announced a five-year, $100 million partnership to address global climate change, agreeing to work with The Climate Group, Earthwatch Institute, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and the World Wildlife Fund in order to quantify the impact of climate change on the world’s cities, forests, and rivers through extensive field research. Yesterday, sources told GlobeSt.com that the bank is close to continuing its sustainable efforts by leasing 300,000 square feet across seven of the final ten floors available at Larry Silverstein’s LEED Gold 7 World Trade Center. Should the deal close, HSBC would likely sell its 500,000-square-foot headquarters tower at 452 Fifth Avenue in Midtown. Asking rents for the final ten floors at 7 WTC are hovering between $75 and $85 per square foot, and HSBC’s deal is rumored to be “at term sheet at the moment.”

Architecture firm MKDA recently completed a 3000-square-foot office fit-out for WhenTech, an option pricing, risk management, and software development company, on the 34th floor of LEED Gold-certified 7 World Trade Center. Larry Silverstein has also retained MKDA directly to create two floors of pre-built, incubator offices for small businesses in the tower. MKDA’s design maximizes daylight in the WhenTech space, featuring all-glass doors and windows between individual offices.

The CoStar Group’s list of the top 50 Manhattan office leases that were finalized in 2007 appears in this week’s issue of Crain’s New York Business (though it isn’t available online). By our count, 9 of these 50 leases were inked for space in green office buildings. Importantly, 3 out of the top 10 leases (ranking 6 through 8, consecutively) were green. We’ve written about a number of these buildings before, and present each lease after the jump along with links to pertinent posts at gbNYC. We also set forth the tower’s certification status (if any), tenant, landlord, and total square footage of the deal.

Looking for LEED-certified office space in New York City? Your task continues to get tougher after yesterday’s announcement that a mere eleven floors remain available at Larry Silverstein’s fifty-two story 7 World Trade Center in the wake of tech company NCR Corp.’s multi-year lease of the LEED Gold building’s thirty-fifth floor. The company will open [...]

Silverstein Properties held a press conference last Thursday at its LEED Gold 7 World Trade Center to unveil updated architectural plans for neighboring Towers 2, 3, and 4 that will soon rise along Greenwich Street. Given today’s sixth anniversary of September 11, I thought it was appropriate to recognize these new buildings once again- all [...]

It’s unclear whether Steve Cuozzo’s nickname will stick, but after an announcement last week, it looks like One Bryant Park won’t stand alone as New York City’s lone LEED Platinum office tower for very long. JP Morgan Chase will relocate its corporate headquarters to Ground Zero, on the site of the former Deutsche Bank Building [...]

With Governor Pataki’s March 15 deadline for Larry Silverstein and the Port Authority to reach an agreement over the future of Ground Zero just days away, it seems that both sides are still haggling it out over what’s going to happen. The negotiations should be of great interest to green building scholars as Silverstein’s 7 [...]