{"id":294762,"date":"2026-07-13T19:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T19:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/294762\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T19:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T19:43:13","slug":"brookfield-eyes-stake-in-3-5b-manhattan-office-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/294762\/","title":{"rendered":"Brookfield Eyes Stake In $3.5B Manhattan Office Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a class=\"tag tag-29784\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/brookfield\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"29784\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brookfield<\/a> is in talks to take a 10% stake in <a class=\"tag tag-168476\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/hudson-square-properties\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"168476\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hudson Square Properties<\/a>, a 13-building office complex on the West Side of Manhattan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The deal would value the 6.2M SF campus, which is positioning itself as a nucleus for tech and media tenants in the city, at $3.5B, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/real-estate\/commercial\/brookfield-plans-to-buy-stake-in-hudson-square-complex-in-bet-on-manhattan-tech-hub-b07e4893\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Wall Street Journal reported<\/a>, citing anonymous sources.\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      One Hudson Square at 75 Varick St., part of the Hudson Square Properties portfolio\n    <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A joint venture between <a class=\"tag tag-44784\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/trinity-church\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"44784\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trinity Church<\/a>, <a class=\"tag tag-76823\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/norges-bank-investment-management\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"76823\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Norges Bank Investment Management<\/a> and <a class=\"tag tag-272\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/hines\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"272\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hines<\/a> owns the portfolio.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Houston-based Hines became the portfolio\u2019s operating partner in 2016. But under the recapitalization deal, which is expected to close in the coming months, Brookfield would step in as the properties\u2019 long-term operating partner and Hines would\u00a0exit its stake, a person with knowledge of the deal told\u00a0Bisnow.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Brookfield&#8217;s stake is expected to be much larger than Hines&#8217; and infuse the office complex with fresh new capital, the person said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Brookfield has been one of the largest U.S. office investors but has suffered losses on its portfolio following the pandemic. Over the past three years, the asset manager offloaded assets once valued at more than $3B for significant discounts,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/national\/news\/office\/brookfield-takes-big-losses-struggling-office-buildings-plans-billions-in-sales-131531\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bisnow previously reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Its bet on Hudson Square Properties would come as\u00a0the\u00a0asset management giant plans to refinance more than $8B of office debt and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/national\/news\/office\/brookfield-takes-big-losses-struggling-office-buildings-plans-billions-in-sales-131531\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sell approximately $10B of assets<\/a>\u00a0by 2030, including some of its New York City holdings.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Hudson Square and neighboring <a class=\"tag tag-95089\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/west-village\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"95089\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">West Village<\/a> continue to have elevated office vacancy at 23%, above Manhattan\u2019s overall 19%, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cushmanwakefield.com\/en\/united-states\/insights\/us-marketbeats\/new-york-city-area-marketbeats\/manhattan-office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to a second-quarter\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0by Cushman &amp; Wakefield. However, the area has also drawn several significant tenants, which are expected to bring that percentage down.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">That includes <a class=\"tag tag-197737\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/anthropic\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"197737\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Anthropic<\/a>, which just last week announced that it finalized a deal to lease the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/07\/nyregion\/anthropic-ai-boom-nyc.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">entirety of the 16-story building<\/a>\u00a0at 330 Hudson St. The office isn\u2019t part of the Hudson Square Properties portfolio.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Other tenants in the neighborhood include <a class=\"tag tag-674\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/google\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"674\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Google<\/a>, which <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2026\/06\/google-lease-renewal-315-hudson-street\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">renewed its 411K SF lease<\/a> at 315 Hudson St., and <a class=\"tag tag-96332\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/paypal\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"96332\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Paypal<\/a>, which <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/11\/business\/paypal-signs-big-lease-at-hudson-square\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">inked a 261K SF lease<\/a>\u00a0at the joint venture&#8217;s 345 Hudson St. in late 2025.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The campus has a long history, dating back to 1705. Queen Anne of Great Britain gave Trinity Church the 215-acre parcel to support\u00a0its mission. In the 1900s, the area evolved from residential use to industrial, eventually becoming the Printing District.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Artists and media companies later moved into the lofts previously used by printing presses. In 2015, Norges, the world&#8217;s largest sovereign wealth fund, partnered with Trinity Church to overhaul the portfolio into modern office space.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">UPDATE, JULY 13, 3:20 P.M. ET:\u00a0This story has been updated to include more detail about Brookfield&#8217;s investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brookfield is in talks to take a 10% stake in Hudson Square Properties, a 13-building office complex on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[8318,45798,45802,112360,75,84,83,9,24,8346,63,41293],"class_list":["post-294762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-brookfield","tag-hines","tag-hudson-square","tag-hudson-square-properties","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-norges-bank-investment-management","tag-nyc","tag-trinity-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294762","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=294762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}