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By LOIS WEISS American Express and Silverstein Properties celebrated the groundbreaking of the new American Express Tower in Lower Manhattan on July 9, 2026 with an overflowing crowd in a tent erected on site. "Our commitment to this site has become a continued legacy, where now power meets permanence," said Lisa Silverstein. "My father began this journey almost 25 years ago in 2001, passing me the baton of responsibility a few years ago. I carry this torch, stretching the a

https://commercialobserver.com/2026/07/china-camera-insta360-lease-times-square/ Insta360, a China-based global optics and camera company, has signed its first U.S. lease for a 1,100-square-foot store at 1515 Broadway in Manhattan’s Times Square, Commercial Observer has learned.

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By Lois Weiss Saturday, April 4, 2026 AI and tech entrepreneur and investor, Gonzalo Hevia Baillères, who was outed as Emma Watson’s boyfriend by the Post's Page Six, has now been outed as the mystery company that could pay the highest average office rent in the city for a portion of the top floor of 9 W. 57th St. Baillères’ multinational holding company, HBeyond, currently operates out of New York, Miami and Mexico City where his family owns other companies. Newmark confir

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November 26, 2015 By Lois Weiss The Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade can be a chilly but wonderful day for families but the day before the parade is filled with its own magic. That Wednesday, Macy’s elves lay out all the balloons around the Museum of Natural History and begin adding helium at the same time the floats are lined up along Central Park West. The inflation event has become an annual "thing," especially since it gets dark after 4 p.m. As the day goes on, the floats get p

https://commercialobserver.com/2025/11/rippling-relocates-133k-sf-penn-district/ Rippling is AI powered human resources. They are growing fast and on a sublease from Spotify at 4 World Trade Center. But the company wanted a loft-like building in Midtown and worked with Sacha Zarba and Jeff Fischer of CBRE to find a new home. With this move to Vornado's 330 West 34th Street, repped in house by Jared Silverman, that nearly doubles their space from 69,000 square feet to 133,000

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https://nypost.com/2025/10/21/real-estate/why-new-nyc-office-towers-are-breaking-ground/ As rents make development feasible, developers are buying buildings and bulking them up with amenities and also breaking ground for new office towers But will the next NYC mayor become a black swan and kill the golden goose?

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Developers are building lots of studios in New York City and its environs. There are incentives here but other states and countries are also upping the ante. Even the latest Star Wars movies and series have decamped to England and Europe leaving a lot of sad costumers, hairdressers, prop makers, carpenters and others behind in Los Angeles. Is there enough business for all of the new NYC studios? Some say no and believe some of the Johnny Come Lately's will eventually go bust

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