{"id":106536,"date":"2026-01-20T23:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T23:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/106536\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T23:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T23:25:08","slug":"anthropic-reportedly-seeking-up-to-450k-sf-office-in-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/106536\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic Reportedly Seeking Up To 450K SF Office In Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Artificial intelligence\u00a0startup\u00a0<a class=\"tag tag-197737\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/anthropic\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"197737\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Anthropic<\/a>\u00a0is looking to dramatically expand its office presence in Manhattan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/placeholder.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Placeholder\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n      Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023\n    <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The company behind chatbot Claude is on the hunt for between 250K SF and 450K SF,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-01-20\/anthropic-seeks-new-manhattan-office-space-in-nyc-expansion?srnd=phx-industries-real-estate&amp;embedded-checkout=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bloomberg reported<\/a>, citing anonymous sources.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The move would be a significant upgrade from its space at 155 Avenue of the Americas. Anthropic occupies between 10K SF and 20K SF in the building on a lease that is set to expire this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/property.compstak.com\/155-Avenue-Of-The-Americas-New-York\/p\/654\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to CompStak<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Anthropic declined to comment to Bloomberg and didn&#8217;t immediately respond to Bisnow\u2019s request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/news\/anthropic-raises-series-f-at-usd183b-post-money-valuation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">raised $13B<\/a>\u00a0in September at a $183B valuation. It\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/national\/news\/data-center-development\/ai-firm-to-spend-50b-to-build-us-data-centers-131849\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said in November<\/a>\u00a0it planned to spend $50B to build out AI infrastructure in the U.S., starting in Texas and New York.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Reports have also emerged about Anthropic growing its San Francisco footprint. The firm is in talks to take over the entirety of 300 Howard St., formerly known as 199 Fremont St., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/money\/realestate\/tech-titan-anthropic-in-discussions-to-take-over-entire-building-in-downtown-s-f\/ar-AA1QQkxU?ocid=finance-verthp-feeds&amp;apiversion=v2&amp;domshim=1&amp;noservercache=1&amp;noservertelemetry=1&amp;batchservertelemetry=1&amp;renderwebcomponents=1&amp;wcseo=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the San Francisco Chronicle reported late last year<\/a>. DivcoWest and <a class=\"tag tag-236\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/blackstone\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"236\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Blackstone<\/a> purchased the vacant 420K SF property <a href=\"https:\/\/sfstandard.com\/2025\/04\/22\/soma-office-building-sold-downtown-blackstone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">for $111.3M<\/a>\u00a0in April\u00a0with plans to market it as part of the city\u2019s \u201cAI Alley.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">AI tenants\u00a0contributed\u00a0to the immense office activity in New York City in 2025. Through the first nine months of the\u00a0year, such companies\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/new-york\/news\/office\/ais-nyc-office-footprint-is-having-a-growth-spurt-131214\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">leased 486K SF of offices<\/a>\u00a0in Manhattan, up from 414K SF in all of 2024 and 265K SF in 2023.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A deal with Anthropic\u00a0could equate to nearly all of AI companies&#8217; leasing activity last year, but it would be a drop in the bucket compared to the larger market. In 2025, Manhattan\u2019s office market celebrated its strongest year in more than a decade with nearly 43M SF of deals, a 20% year-over-year increase, <a href=\"https:\/\/pdf.euro.savills.co.uk\/usa\/market-reports\/newyork-mim-office-q4-2025-reviewed.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to Savills<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence\u00a0startup\u00a0Anthropic\u00a0is looking to dramatically expand its office presence in Manhattan.\u00a0 Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at TechCrunch Disrupt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[39434,66,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-106536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-anthropic","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}