{"id":206883,"date":"2026-04-23T03:12:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/206883\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T03:12:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:12:40","slug":"meet-manhattans-new-apex-office-aiming-to-smash-leasing-price-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/206883\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Manhattan\u2019s new apex-office aiming to smash leasing price records"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An image collage containing 2 images, Image 1 shows Illustration of a tall, modern skyscraper with a white top amidst other buildings, with Central Park visible in the background, Image 2 shows A birds-eye view of Madison Avenue between 58th and 59th Streets, with a red and yellow bridge extending along the street<\/p>\n

The newest entrant to Manhattan\u2019s office pipeline is poised to set a pricing benchmark at the very top of the market. Related Companies is marketing its forthcoming 52-story tower at 625 Madison Ave.<\/a> with asking rents that could reach an unprecedented $400 per square foot on the uppermost floors.<\/p>\n

The 840,000-square-foot project will target premier tenants in the technology and financial sectors, with base rents beginning around $250 per square foot and escalating sharply with elevation \u2014 ultimately delivering what would be the highest office asking rents ever recorded in New York City.<\/p>\n

The development is a partnership between Related and Andrew Mathias, the former president of SL Green Realty, who oversaw the development of One Vanderbilt adjacent to Grand Central Terminal. That skyscraper recently secured a second lease exceeding $300 per square foot, underscoring the continued strength of the top-tier office market.<\/p>\n

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The space at 625 Madison between East 58th and 59th streets as it looked in 1955. New York Post<\/p>\n

The Madison Avenue site carries both history and sentiment. The prior building housed Revlon and once served as Related\u2019s headquarters. Today, the firm is led by CEO Jeff Blau, while founder Stephen Ross has shifted focus to ventures in South Florida and ownership of the Miami Dolphins.<\/p>\n

Strategically positioned between East 58th and 59th streets, the site bridges the Plaza District\u2019s commercial core and the \u00fcber-luxury residential corridor known as Billionaires\u2019 Row.<\/p>\n

Initially conceived as a slender, tall residential tower, the project has since been reimagined \u2014 reflecting renewed demand for high-end office space \u2014 into a state-of-the-art, carbon-neutral commercial building, supported in part by investment by a Saudi sovereign wealth fund.<\/p>\n

The design team has also evolved. Foster + Partners and Gensler \u2014 the latter also on Related\u2019s 70 Hudson Yards \u2014 have been selected to create what is envisioned as the signature trophy tower to rule them all.<\/p>\n

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The Four Seasons Hotel New York and the GM Building will be its neighbors. Four Seasons Hotel New York; Stefano Giovannini for NY Post<\/p>\n

The structure features curved glass corners, polished steel framing and integrated greenery designed to complement views of nearby Central Park.<\/p>\n

The building will be organized into stacked, column-free office clusters of roughly six floors each, interspersed with amenity levels opening onto landscaped terraces along the north, south and west fa\u00e7ades.<\/p>\n

The configuring on the edges of buildings \u2014 promoted by Gensler \u2014 maximizes natural light and promotes workplace interaction, while also allowing future flexibility for a diverse mix of tenants.<\/p>\n

Architectural highlights include double-height mechanical floors and a sculpted crown with metallic screening, as well as a dramatic, top-floor space envisioned as a double-height amenity or executive suite.<\/p>\n

A central amenity zone features triple-height glass \u2014 rising 30 to 40 feet \u2014 potentially incorporating a mezzanine level connected by statement staircases.<\/p>\n

With large floor plates and over 600 feet tall, the tower will be nestled among its neighbors: the General Motors Building at 705 feet, the Four Seasons Hotel New York at 682 feet and 520 Park Avenue at 781 feet.<\/p>\n

But with air rights already transferred from the low-rise Metropolitan Club on Fifth Avenue, the Related project is guaranteed views of Central Park for its future occupants.<\/p>\n

This is the only new development in the Plaza District with a timeline, sources said, that is \u201cyears ahead\u201d of other new construction. In both design and pricing, Related is positioning 625 Madison as a leader of New York\u2019s next generation of trophy office projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An image collage containing 2 images, Image 1 shows Illustration of a tall, modern skyscraper with a white…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[82033,82031,82034,3955,75,84,83,2680,9,24,4330,63,61291,2344,82032,5817],"class_list":{"0":"post-206883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-625-madison-ave","9":"tag-andrew-mathias","10":"tag-four-seasons-hotel-new-york","11":"tag-grand-central-terminal","12":"tag-manhattan","13":"tag-manhattan-headlines","14":"tag-manhattan-news","15":"tag-miami-dolphins","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-new-york-post","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-office-market","21":"tag-office-space","22":"tag-plaza-district","23":"tag-sl-green-realty"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206883","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=206883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}