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Amazon's 330,000 square-foot lease at 10 Bryant Park — or 452 Fifth Ave. at West 40th St. — is big news both for Jeff Bezos's ever-expanding behemoth and for the on-fire Midtown office market.
The deal at the former HSBC tower closed last week, the Real Deal reported. Realty Check first reported the talks last October, and things moved along smoothly after that. The Amazon lease keeps the tower owned by Israel's little-known Property & Building Corp.
at 100% spoken for. Sources said HSBC, which moved to Tishman Speyer's Spiral, is paying rent until the end of this month on floors 3-11, which Amazon will occupy. Despite fears that Amazon's setback in 2016, when politicians nixed its hopes for a major campus in Queens, would scare it out of the city, Bezos has expanded here relentlessly.
Amazon will occupy floors 3 through 11 at 10 Bryant Park,...
Steve Cuozzo.
