The world’s largest social media network, in the city’s biggest non-renewal office lease so far this year, has signed a deal to expand its Big Apple footprint, The Post has learned.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook, which occupies 270,000 square feet at 770 Broadway, by Astor Place, has just leased an additional 200,000 square feet at 225 Park Ave. South near Union Square on the northeast corner of East 18th Street, sources said.
As The Post first reported, BuzzFeed previously leased 189,000 square feet on the 11th to 16th floors at 225 Park Ave. South — with an asking rent of $85 per square foot.
Facebook will have 78,666 square feet on the 17th to 19th floors at the top of the 107-year-old building to the south and another 122,000 square feet on a few of the floors between 6th and 10th.
The asking rent for Facebook could not be determined, and all the parties declined comment.
The two-building Class B property owned by Orda Management is undergoing a major renovation that will connect the buildings with a glass stairway on several floors.
The smaller building to the north is 12 stories tall.
Since 2013, Facebook has been adding space at 770 Broadway, but now the 1.2 million-square-foot building owned by Vornado Realty Trust is fully leased.
Facebook, which is headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., is represented nationally by Warren Wixen of Wixen Real Estate and locally by Robert Tunis of Colliers International.
Orda was represented by a Newmark Grubb Knight Frank team that includes Brian Waterman, Brent Ozarowski, Andrew Peretz and Courtney Adham.
