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Amazon Rides Wave of NYC Tech Tenancy
Amazon’s new commitment to 335,000 square feet of Manhattan office didn’t occur in a vacuum. Although the e-commerce giant scrapped its plans for a New York City headquarters campus, it’s part of a wave of tech tenants that are closing the leasing gap between the TAMI sector and financial services, traditionally Manhattan’s biggest office-using industry.
“We know they’re not done yet,” CEO Marc Holliday of SL Green Realty Corp., Amazon’s new landlord at 410 10th Ave. said during an investor presentation this week. “These West Coast companies are migrating to the East Coast in order to tap in to an expanded workforce that doesn’t really exist to the same degree in Silicon Valley.”
Google and Facebook also occupy millions of square feet in Manhattan, to soon include Facebook’s 1.5 million square feet at Hudson Yards. TAMI tenants now account for 24% of office leases here, while financial services represents 31%.
Pictured: Hudson Yards.
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