{"id":99574,"date":"2026-01-14T01:53:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T01:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/99574\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T01:53:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T01:53:30","slug":"ai-firm-graphite-signs-24k-sf-deal-with-tishman-speyer-at-148-lafayette-street-commercial-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/99574\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Firm Graphite Signs 24K-SF Deal With Tishman Speyer at 148 Lafayette Street \u2013 Commercial Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artificial intelligence code review platform Graphite<\/a> signed a new lease in SoHo that will more than triple its office footprint, Commercial Observer has learned.<\/p>\n

The tech firm signed a five-year, 24,000-square-foot lease for the sixth and seventh floors of Tishman Speyer<\/a>\u2019s 148 Lafayette Street in December, with plans to relocate from a 7,000-square-foot space two blocks away at 434 Broadway, according to the landlord.<\/p>\n

SEE ALSO: LaundryBee Inks 10K-SF Lease at 115-53 Sutphin Boulevard, Queens<\/a><\/p>\n

Tishman Speyer did not disclose the asking rent in the building, but the average asking rent in Lower Manhattan was $58.40 per square foot in the fourth quarter of 2025, according to a report from CBRE<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe acquired 148 Lafayette with the conviction that demand remains strong for top-quality, well-located office properties,\u201d Tishman Speyer Senior Managing Director Chris Shehadeh said in a statement. \u201cOur ability to lease these two floors almost immediately after becoming available reinforces that confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Samantha Augarten represented Tishman Speyer in-house in the transaction, while Jonathan Franzel and Leo Kon\u00e9 of Newmark<\/a> negotiated on behalf of the tenant.<\/p>\n

Newmark did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Tishman Speyer bought the 150,000-square-foot office property at the corner of Lafayette and Howard streets from Steven and Michael Elghanayan\u2019s real estate investment company Epic for $105.5 million in June 2025, CO reported at the time<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other tenants in the 13-story building include venture capital firm General Catalyst, which signed a lease for 42,535 square feet on the 10th through 12th floors of 148 Lafayette in March 2025<\/a>, and cosmetics firm Charlotte Tilbury.<\/p>\n

Mark Hallum can be reached at mhallum@commercialobserver.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence code review platform Graphite signed a new lease in SoHo that will more than triple its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[45769,45770,45771,2361,45772,9,11,10,2362],"class_list":["post-99574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-148-lafayette-street","tag-chris-shehadeh","tag-jonathan-franzel","tag-leases","tag-leo-kone-channel","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-office-leases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99574","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=99574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}