{"id":368206,"date":"2026-10-08T20:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/368206\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T20:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:56:17","slug":"ai-platform-synthesia-moves-hq-to-50k-sf-at-gfps-675-avenue-of-the-americas-commercial-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/368206\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Platform Synthesia Moves HQ to 50K SF at GFP\u2019s 675 Avenue of the Americas \u2013 Commercial Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence companies are continuing to <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2026\/06\/manhattan-subleasing-ai-firms-office-growth-q2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scoop up<\/a> Midtown\u2019s premiere office space.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>AI video platform <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/synthesia\/\" title=\"Synthesia\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Synthesia<\/a>, which provides an enterprise-focused communications platform backed by \u201cShark Tank\u201d entrepreneur Mark Cuban, inked a 50,000-square-foot lease at <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/gfp-real-estate\/\" title=\"GFP Real Estate\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GFP Real Estate<\/a>\u2019s 675 Avenue of the Americas for its new U.S. headquarters, according to tenant broker <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/lee-associates\/\" title=\"Lee &amp; Associates\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lee &amp; Associates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2026\/10\/brenton-point-lease-marx-realty-10-grand-central\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Private Equity Firm Brenton Point Inks 9K SF at Marx Realty\u2019s 10 Grand Central<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The company will relocate to the Flatiron District building between West 21st and West 22nd streets from the Moinian Group\u2019s 245 Fifth Avenue in NoMad, where it <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2025\/08\/synthesia-lease-moinian-245-fifth-avenue\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signed a lease<\/a> for 13,600 square feet in August 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear when the move will take place, but the relocation will nearly quadruple Synthesia\u2019s office space in New York City and allow it to expand its headcount, according to Lee &amp; Associates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSynthesia\u2019s new offices will be designed to enhance both the employee and customer experience, with meeting and collaboration areas, flexible event space, and a studio where customers can create custom avatars, conduct proof-of-concept work and collaborate on video programs,\u201d GFP said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The length of the lease and the asking rent were not disclosed. The average asking rent for office space in Midtown South was $79.57 per square foot during the third quarter of 2026, according to Colliers research.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Someck and Justin Myers from Lee &amp; Associates represented Synthesia in the deal. Jeffrey Gural and Alphie Toro from GFP, as well as Anthony Sciacca and Scott Gutnick from <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/newmark\/\" title=\"Newmark\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Newmark<\/a>, represented the landlord. The brokers did not immediately respond to Commercial Observer\u2019s requests for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>675 Avenue of the Americas is a six-story office building built in 1901 a block west of the landmark Flatiron Building. Other tenants in the building include <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2026\/01\/candid-health-lease-675-avenue-of-the-americas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">billing platform<\/a> Candid Health and commercial real estate data sourcing platform Compstak. Retail tenants include craft store Michaels and grocery store Trader Joe\u2019s, which renewed its 29,700-square-foot lease in April 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Schiavo can be reached at <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2026\/10\/synthesia-lease-gfp-675-avenue-of-the-americas\/mailto:aschiavo@commercialobserver.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">aschiavo@commercialobserver.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence companies are continuing to scoop up Midtown\u2019s premiere office space.\u00a0 AI video platform Synthesia, which provides&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[136050,136051,58825,46583,136052,21214,136053,2361,75,84,83,45931,9,24,63,2362,136054],"class_list":["post-368206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-245-fifth-avenue","tag-675-avenue-of-the-americas","tag-alphie-toro","tag-anthony-sciacca","tag-dennis-someck","tag-jeffrey-gural","tag-justin-myers","tag-leases","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-mark-cuban","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-office-leases","tag-scott-gutnick-channel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368206","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=368206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}