Verizon moving hundreds of NYC employees to a new tower on the Lower East Side

Verizon is making a pioneering determination to the Lower East Side, with plans to determination hundreds of staffers to the trendy neighborhood’s caller Essex Crossing improvement — and retired of its historical metropolis offices astatine 140 West St. 

The archetypal lease signed Thursday calls for the telecom elephantine to inhabit astir 143,000 quadrate feet connected the third, 4th and 5th floors of 155 Delancey St., successful the wider basal of the caller rental-apartment operation called The Artisan, on with branding and signage connected the commercialized facade of the building.

“It’s a existent boon to the Lower East Side and it harkens backmost to the opening of commerce successful New York City — and Verizon recognized the value of that,” said Charles Bendit of Taconic Partners, 1 of the developers.

The parties declined to remark connected presumption of the semipermanent woody but different existent property sources pegged the outgo of the 20-year lease astatine astir $80 per ft with implicit $130 per ft towards enactment successful Verizon’s space.

Verizon has an enactment until precocious adjacent twelvemonth to lease the remainder of the 350,000 square-foot bureau campus, which would see the 35,031 square-foot 2nd level of 155 Delancey arsenic good arsenic the 174,623 square-feet successful the five-story basal of 145 Delancey St., close crossed Suffolk Street.

“We structured it this mode to marque this field a location for them,” Bendit added. 

Verizon volition inhabit astir 143,000 quadrate feet connected the third, 4th and 5th floors of The Artisan operation astatine Essex Crossing located astatine 155 Delancey St.Wordsearch and River Film

Employees, galore of whom volition enactment successful Verizon’s selling department, volition person 3,456 square-feet of outdoor abstraction connected the sixth level positive nonstop entree to the sprawling three-block-long underground Market Line nutrient hall, arsenic good arsenic motorcycle lockers and showers, making that travel crossed the adjacent Williamsburg Bridge from Brooklyn a breeze.

The institution besides has the quality to usage the project’s Regal cinema for meetings and events. 

Verizon’s landmarked, Art Deco gathering astatine 140 West St. was designed by Ralph Walker arsenic the office for the New York Telephone Company, a predecessor to Verizon. Getty Images

Taconic Partners is processing Essex Crossing on with L+M Development Partners, BFC Partners, Goldman Sachs’s Urban Investment Group and The Prusik Group connected onshore antecedently owned by the city. 

Josh Kuriloff, Andrew Braver and Peyton Horn of Cushman & Wakefield represented Verizon successful this transaction which was negotiated implicit the past 2 years.

“This woody continues to amusement the formation to caller construction,” Kuriloff said.

Verizon’s landmarked, Art Deco gathering astatine 140 West St. was designed by Ralph Walker arsenic the office for the New York Telephone Company, a predecessor to Verizon. The institution sold the apical 22 floors for $274 cardinal to Ben Shaoul’s Magnum Real Estate who developed them into ample residential condominiums.  

It is unclear if Shaoul volition bargain the remaining bureau floors to adhd to the condominium, oregon if it volition stay offices. Shaoul did not instrumentality requests for comment.

Verizon staffers, galore of whom volition enactment successful the telecom giant’s selling department, volition person nonstop entree to the sprawling three-block-long underground Market Line nutrient hallway astatine Essex Crossing.MOSO Studio

Verizon still has the 2nd done 10th level positive 4 sub-floors, oregon 565,800 quadrate feet, for specialized switching equipment, immoderate of which cannot beryllium moved. The institution antecedently moved immoderate employees to Fort Greene, Brooklyn, from its existent New York firm office astatine 1095 Ave. of the Americas — which besides has switching equipment.

Verizon’s planetary office is successful Basking Ridge, NJ, which offered an $81.6 cardinal inducement bundle successful 2005 to make 2,800 jobs successful the state.