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By Lois Weiss Saturday, April 4, 2026 AI and tech entrepreneur and investor, Gonzalo Hevia Baillères, who was outed as Emma Watson’s boyfriend by the Post's Page Six, has now been outed as the mystery company that could pay the highest average office rent in the city for a portion of the top floor of 9 W. 57th St. Baillères’ multinational holding company, HBeyond, currently operates out of New York, Miami and Mexico City where his family owns other companies.   Newmark confir

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November 26, 2015 By Lois Weiss The Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade can be a chilly but wonderful day for families but the day before the parade is filled with its own magic. That Wednesday, Macy’s elves lay out all the balloons around the Museum of Natural History and begin adding helium at the same time the floats are lined up along Central Park West. The inflation event has become an annual "thing," especially since it gets dark after 4 p.m. As the day goes on, the floats get p

https://commercialobserver.com/2025/11/rippling-relocates-133k-sf-penn-district/ Rippling is AI powered human resources. They are growing fast and on a sublease from Spotify at 4 World Trade Center. But the company wanted a loft-like building in Midtown and worked with Sacha Zarba and Jeff Fischer of CBRE to find a new home. With this move to Vornado's 330 West 34th Street, repped in house by Jared Silverman, that nearly doubles their space from 69,000 square feet to 133,000

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https://nypost.com/2025/10/21/real-estate/why-new-nyc-office-towers-are-breaking-ground/ As rents make development feasible, developers are buying buildings and bulking them up with amenities and also breaking ground for new office towers But will the next NYC mayor become a black swan and kill the golden goose?

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Developers are building lots of studios in New York City and its environs. There are incentives here but other states and countries are also upping the ante. Even the latest Star Wars movies and series have decamped to England and Europe leaving a lot of sad costumers, hairdressers, prop makers, carpenters and others behind in Los Angeles. Is there enough business for all of the new NYC studios? Some say no and believe some of the Johnny Come Lately's will eventually go bust

Get your clients out to tour before they are caught short.

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HTTPS://COMMERCIALOBSERVER.COM/2025/05/BNY-1-WORLD-TRADE-CENTER-CONDE-NAST/ By Lois Weiss May 21, 2025 2:35 pm reprints Bank of New...

https://commercialobserver.com/2025/05/ralph-lauren-lvmh-109-prince-street-battle/ By Lois Weiss May 19, 2025 1:00 pm The story behind...

https://commercialobserver.com/2025/05/chrysler-building-sale-2025/ Chrysler Building on the Market for first time in nearly a decade

By Lois Weiss Binyan Studio render of the TenBerke Architects designed 72-story tower for 395 Flatbush Avenue A new residential building,...

https://commercialobserver.com/2025/05/brunello-cucinelli-lease-689-fifth-avenue/ By Lois Weiss May 8, 2025 2:07 pm ashion designer...

https://commercialobserver.com/2025/05/bazza-restaurant-251-west-30th-street/   By  Lois Weiss  May 14, 2025 2:10 pm  reprints Newmark's...

https://commercialobserver.com/2025/04/estee-lauder-120-prince-street-126-prince-street/ Fragrances from Estee Lauder will fill four...

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By LOIS WEISS Adidas is moving its Soho Origins shop down the block to 135 Spring St. which was a former Valentino location. The new...

Crocs has leaped over Old Navy -- which will become a Primark store - and landed at the former Vans at 140 West 34th St while 152 West...

President Trump at Inauguration Eve Rally says, "This nation belongs to you." By Lois Weiss Two things were clear from spending time in Washington, D.C. for the Inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the 47th President: We are, as he proclaimed, in “the dawn of a Golden Age of America” and son Barron is the next most popular Trump.   This second inauguration of President Trump brought out a gaggle of real estate investors and longtime friends. Among those at various events were

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By LOIS WEISS The Upper West Side of Manhattan was rocking with street life and visitors for the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Parade Balloon Inflation. Yes, it's a thing that's a bucket list experience for New Yorkers who spend their Wednesday afternoon and evening before Thanksgiving watching the giant balloons go from flat to floating. In the past, the inflation all happened at night but now, the Macy's elves start at 1 p.m. and visitors are corralled into a path that starts

Friars Club to be auctioned with tons of memorabilia inside

President Trump and entourage for his victory speech at 2:47 a.m. Nov. 7, 2025 By LOIS WEISS In promising a "golden age of America,"...

By LOIS WEISS Donald Trump brought the Trump Train to Madison Square Garden on Sunday, October 27, and like other rallies, it was filled...

By LOIS WEISS A New York State judge has ordered Aby Rosen's company to stop interfering with the operations of the iconic Art Deco...

A pair of developers and Upper West Side community activists have been raging a paper crusade against each other over a 670-foot-tall...

This is the mezzanine on the 92nd floor overlooking the 91st floor but watch out for those frosted areas as they are more slippery....

July 30, 2022 By Lois Weiss   After nearly 50 years in the hands of New York City, four small buildings on the corner of Seventh Avenue...

October 24, 2023 By LOIS WEISS A $350 million “fantastic, super sexy project” is being developed on 5.4 acres along the Hudson River at...

August 14, 2024 Dateline Asheville, NC By Lois Weiss During a speech that was supposed to be targeted to his economic policies, Donald J....

By Lois Weiss Computer giant IBM opened its new 269,000 square-foot headquarters at One Madison Avenue during a ribbon-cutting ceremony...

One Vanderbilt open for business. Note the horizontal terra cotta panels. The 1,401-foot-tall One Vanderbilt is officially open after the...

By Lois Weiss A milder-mannered Donald J. Trump turned up in the capital of South Carolina on January 28, 2023 to announce his 2024...

By Lois Weiss Ribbon is cut for the opening of 425 Park Ave. with l-r David Levinson of L+L Holding, architect Lord Norman Foster,...

By Lois Weiss Yankee Stadium, Citi Field, Barclay’s Center and the Empire Outlets are turning into mass COVID-19 vaccination sites as the...