New York Real Estate Journal

Steir, Barlow, Goldstein and Taubin of Studley lease 260,000 s/f to Tiffany

May 25, 2010 - Brokerage
Tiffany & Co. is moving its corporate headquarters' staff to L&L Holding Co.'s 200 Fifth Ave. Tiffany & Co. has leased four and a half floors comprising 260,000 s/f at the revamped class A office building that is celebrating its 100th birthday this year and for over seven decades functioned as the International Toy Center. For L&L Holding, the firm headed by David Levinson and Robert Lapidus, that completed a 14-month, $135 million renovation and makeover of the 14-story, 850,000 s/f property. Last year, the Grey Group moved into its 370,000 s/f world headquarters at the building and Eataly, teaming with chef Mario Batali and Lidia and Joe Bastianich of the Batali-Bastianich (B&B) Hospitality Group, is currently building out 44,000 s/f of boutique eateries, shopping and a rooftop mini brewery and restaurant that will open at 200 Fifth later this year. Mitch Steir, chairman and CEO of Studley, together with Studley executive VPs Matt Barlow and David Goldstein and senior managing director Greg Taubin represented Tiffany & Co. in the long-term lease. L&L Holding Co. was represented in-house by David Berkey along with Howard Fiddle and Evan Haskell of CB Richard Ellis.