Visionary developers are building tricked-out new office towers to tempt powerful tenants

NYC’s agency marketplace is still successful basking water, but arsenic trophy towers spot renewed demand, immoderate visionary developers are building new-construction, best-in-class workspaces.

Here’s a look astatine nan 3 newest additions to Manhattan’s commercialized playground, designed to tempt its apical tenants.

125 W. 57 St.

You already unrecorded connected Billionaires’ Row (right?) — now you tin activity there, too. This recently built, 30-story agency tower, betwixt Sixth and Seventh avenues, has 172,685 quadrate feet of offices — each pinch Central Park views.

The elegant ground-up, mid-block building developed by Alchemy-ABR Investment Partners and Cain International was designed by FXCollaborative and Gensler. It includes a caller Calvary Baptist Church successful its base, which allows nan full-floor offices to commencement 175 feet up connected nan 14th floor.

“The position down 57th Street is amazing,” said Kenneth Horn of Alchemy, which is known for luxury residential properties for illustration nan Woolworth Building. “The conception was to create thing boutique that doesn’t beryllium successful nan market.”

While they considered creating much apartments on nan luxurious artifact filled pinch specified trophy towers, they felt nan tract was ripe for a typical agency building.

The 11th-floor has 7,150 quadrate feet of amenities opening to a 4,300-square-foot outdoor terrace that wraps astir nan tower. There are backstage gathering rooms and a convention center, bar, java area and lounge pinch a catering kitchen.

Eight of nan 10,280-square-foot floors will person private, 250-square-foot terraces, while nan 15th and 16th floors tin beryllium mixed into a duplex.

“We’re a spectacular task successful an A-plus location,” said Brian Ray of ABR.

“Where other tin you get ray and aerial connected 3 sides overlooking 57th Street and nan parkland pinch these ceiling heights?”

Rents commencement successful nan mid-$200s per ft and leasing is being handled by a JLL squad led by Mitchell Konsker.

520 Fifth Ave.

This caller 1,000-foot-tall building connected Fifth Ave. combines living, moving and play astatine a location conscionable steps from Bryant Park pinch an artistic that is simply a prestigious homage to Art Deco.

Developed by Mickey Rabina pinch Kohn Pedersen Fox arsenic architects and interiors by Charles & Co., nan building is punctuated pinch arched windows and terraces.

Offices connected nan ninth done 34th floors scope successful size from 6,500 quadrate feet to 12,000 quadrate feet. These workplaces are sandwiched betwixt 100 luxury residences connected apical and a backstage members club, dubbed Moss, person to earth, pinch nan latter’s amenities unfastened to nan agency occupiers.

“It’s an astonishing offering,” said Benjamin Bass, 1 of nan JLL team’s leasing agents. “Each level is column-free and has beautiful arched and operable windows.”

But expect entity precocious pricing successful nan “triple digits,” Bass said.

Those tenants needing much than 1 level tin return advantage of prepositioned knock-out panels, making it easier to instal an interior staircase aliases simply usage nan occurrence stairs. Every level but 1 has a loggia aliases terrace, pinch ample ones connected 14 and 27 overlooking Fifth Avenue.

Currently, nan 24th level is being fitted retired arsenic a pre-built exemplary while a income halfway is perched connected nan apical 2 floors of nan adjacent 500 Fifth Ave.

“The recruitment and retention of nan worker guidelines successful Manhattan continues to thrust nan decisions astir nan value of nan building and nan amenities,” Bass said.

11 E. 26th St.

Two historical Neo-Gothic buildings overlooking Madison Square Park person been connected and updated to create rare-for-the-area, 31,000-square-foot level plates. They are besides kitted retired pinch a scope of amenities usually reserved for towers doubly their size, including a glamorous caller tile platform convention space.

“It was each done to triumph nan title and supply nan eventual amenities,” said leasing supplier Billy Cohen of Newmark.

Henry Elghanayan of Rockrose bought nan little agency floors of 15 E. 26th St. a decade ago. Above nan eighth floor, location were residences pinch a abstracted lobby and elevators.

A fewer years later, he tasked Cohen pinch search down nan far-flung owners of nan adjacent building astatine 11 E. 26th St., buying them retired and past melding nan 2 structures into 1 400,000-square-foot agency offering.

Cohen, on pinch architects MdeAS and Vocon, besides added a caller communicative to nan existing 21 floors and a lower-floor clubhouse.

The caller $30 cardinal tile platform has a 6,000-square-foot, indoor-outdoor convention halfway pinch folding solid walls and 2 outdoor kitchens.

City Landmarks approved a modern creation for a caller parapet pinch humanities elements for illustration see-through trefoils, while nan occidental broadside has an all-glass railing. There are views crossed Madison Square Park to nan Flatiron Building and nan World Trade Center, arsenic good arsenic westbound to Hudson Yards on pinch bluish views of nan Empire State Building. It’s achieving rents astir $145 per foot.

“It will beryllium a crippled changer erstwhile it opens,” said Sarah McCann of Vocon. “We moreover did a wall of whiskey lockers.”