The space where the iconic Fiorucci’s original hard-partying disco department store was located is coming up for rent.
The Italian-based store with its edgy graphics, music and window dancing staff that featured Joey Arias, Klaus Nomi and Madonna’s brother, Christopher, also launched the careers of designers like Betsey Johnson.
Andy Warhol and Jackie Onassis headed there when they needed gold lamé- and glitter-dripping outfits for their Studio 54 evenings.
Occupied by Williams-Sonoma and the Pottery Barn for the last 14.5 years, the triplex 32,000-square-foot space is being listed through Jeffrey Roseman of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank Retail.
The store in the base of the co-op at 127 E. 59th St. between Lexington and Park avenues will be available in the first quarter of 2015. The retail condo is now owned by Benenson Capital.
The asking rent of $400 per foot for the ground floor is roughly half of what rents are on Lexington, where there are mostly small spaces.
“Being able to assemble 32,000 square feet across from Bloomingdale’s is pretty significant,” said Roseman, who admitted to shopping at the original Fiorucci.
The original Fiorucci’s chain was sold to Benetton and eventually went bankrupt. Urban Outfitters bought the last four years of its lease in bankruptcy before the current stores moved in.
A Singapore-based company that owns hotels, offices and housing has just made its first purchase in New York.
Keck Seng, which owns hotels around the world as well as the W San Francisco and Doubletree Alana Waikiki Hotel in Hawaii, has now added the 173-key SpringHill Suites by Marriott, New York, to its conglomerate for $82 million.
Seller Hidrock Realty developed this Gene Kaufman-designed hotel at 25 W. 37th St. as well as the Courtyard by Marriott at 960 Ave. of the Americas — which sources said it will keep.
Jeff Davis of JLL Hotels represented Hidrock in the sale. No one returned requests for comment.
The 50-story office tower at 1221 Ave. of the Americas is getting new entrances and other enhancements by Moed de Armas & Shannon.
A former Hallmark Cards retail store on the setback corner of West 48th Street will be incorporated into the lobby and become the first entrance facing Ave. of the Americas, which is mostly fronted by Del Frisco’s restaurant and a large sunken retail plaza.
The West 49th Street entrance to the 2.5 million square-foot tower, also known as the McGraw Hill Building, will have non-structural columns removed and replaced with floor-to-ceiling glass.
The capital improvement program underway by the Rockefeller Group ownership also includes face-lifts for elevators, entrances and side-street plazas, which will get new landscaping, lighting and seating, where visitors will be able to enjoy the Fox News summer concert series across 48th Street in the plaza of the Post’s headquarters at 1211 Ave. of the Americas.
Yext, the GeoMarketing company that can ensure your pizza business gets the right calls on the right phone number from the right folks at all the right business-listing aggregators’ Web sites, is expanding to 95,017 square feet at One Madison Ave.
Back in 2012, the company leased 36,823 square feet on the fifth floor from owner SL Green Realty through Neil Goldmacher and John Moran of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank.
This year, the duo represented Yext in the 58,194-square-foot expansion deal through a sublease for the rest of the floor from Credit Suisse, which was represented by Jason Gorman and Lewis Miller of CBRE.
Yext recently closed a $50 million Series F financing deal.
Another tenant has been out-priced and is now moving from Midtown South to downtown.
Educators 4 Excellence has leased the entire 13,427 square-foot 28th floor at 80 Pine St., where it will move from 333 W. 39th St.
The nonprofit needed to double in size to accommodate both its national and city offices in separate communal areas while still being close to transportation.
With limited affordable Midtown South options, its brokers, Anita Grossberg and Neil Sroka of the Sroka Worldwide Team at Douglas Elliman, turned downtown.
They also brought in consultants from the New York Grant Co. to ensure the tenant was eligible for downtown incentives. The asking rent was $42 per foot.
Thomas Keating of Rudin Management represented Rudin in-house.
