Hudson Square

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.

Trinity Real Estate - which is currently developing the mixed-use, Brennan Beer Gorman-designed 330 Hudson Street to LEED Silver specifications - is the largest landlord in the Hudson Square submarket, where it has been converting industrial space into Class A commercial offices since 1983. The firm is the real estate arm of Trinity Church, the downtown Episcopal parish that currently enjoys a 93 percent occupancy rate for its portfolio. Trinity owns and operates six million square feet across eighteen buildings north of Canal Street and west of Sixth Avenue. Earlier this year, the company opened its new 16,000-square-foot headquarters space at One Hudson Square (75 Varick Street), designed by architects Mancini Duffy to achieve a LEED for Commercial Interiors ("LEED-CI") Silver rating. The project is still waiting for formal certification from USGBC.