Category : Retail

RKF has arranged four leases on behalf of Off The Wall Frozen Yogurt. The locations are 4 West 14th Street in Union Square, 248 West 23rd Street in Chelsea, 1053 Second Avenue in Midtown East and 11 Times Square in Times Square, representing a total of 9,400 s/f of retail...

Starbucks coffee shop at the Rudin Family’s office tower at 55 Broad Street has renewed its lease for another decade, and is expanding as well. According to Michael Rudin, vice president of Rudin Management Company, the operating arm of Rudin Family Holdings, the store, which opened at the world famous...

CBRE Group, Inc. released its Manhattan Retail MarketView report for fourth quarter 2012, which found that New York City’s record high of 52 million tourists last year were a huge spending force propelling Manhattan’s increasingly hot retail corridors. Citing various sources, CBRE reported that New York City welcomed 52 million visitors in 2012, a 2.1% increase over 2011. Of those visitors, 41 million were domestic and 11 million were international. These visitors generated an estimated $55.3 billion in revenue, with direct spending reaching $36.9 billion.

A hip new coffee shop has landed in East Village. Thor High Street Advisors’ has placed Greenwich Village favorite Third Rail Coffee on the corner of Second and East 10th Avenues. The new location marks Third Rail Coffee’s second location in New York City. “The addition of Third Rail Coffee...

M Properties announced a long-term lease between 20 John St Commons LLC, and one of the city’s top Asian Fusion restaurant groups, operating as Dee Mark Inc. Former It’s A Pizza space on John Street will be replaced by a quick-service restaurant. The operators saw a need to cater to...

The Garis & Hahn art gallery has leased its first location at 263 Bowery. The Lower East Side storefront, located between Stanton and East Houston Streets, consists of 1,789 s/f on the ground floor and 633 s/f in the lower level. Gallery co-owners Mary Garis and Sophie Hahn were drawn...

RKF has completed the leasing assignment at the base of The Mark Hotel at 992-998 Madison Avenue on behalf of the Alexico Group. All of the hotel’s ground floor retail space, located on Madison Avenue and 77th Street, is now leased. RKF was responsible for leases with Zadig et Voltaire,...

W&H Properties has gone full throttle in marketing three major retail space assemblages that “carry the potential to significantly alter the landscape of both Broadway and West 34th Street around Herald Square,” according to Anthony Malkin, president of Malkin Holdings LLC, which supervises the W&H portfolio. At 112 West 34th...