{"id":291742,"date":"2025-10-10T10:47:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/291742\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:47:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:47:28","slug":"scale-ai-inks-80k-sf-sublease-from-wunderkind-at-one-world-trade-center-commercial-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/291742\/","title":{"rendered":"Scale AI Inks 80K-SF Sublease From Wunderkind at One World Trade Center \u2013 Commercial Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Software development company Scale AI<\/a><\/b> is taking over two floors of office space at One World Trade Center<\/b>, Commercial Observer has learned.<\/p>\n

San Francisco-based Scale AI, which provides data and technology for AI application development, has subleased roughly 80,000 square feet on the 74th and 75th floors of the 104-story skyscraper, according to a source with knowledge of the deal. The sublease runs until January 2030, and asking rent was $65 per square foot.<\/p>\n

SEE ALSO: Drawbridge Realty Buys O.C. Office for $78M, Signs Anduril to 190K-SF Lease<\/a><\/p>\n

The sublandlord was AI-powered marketing service Wunderkind<\/a><\/b>, which had been looking to offload its Financial District office space, the source said. Scale AI will move all of its New York City operations from its current 26,924-square-foot offices at 218 West 18th Street<\/b> to its new space at 1WTC early next year.<\/p>\n

Scale AI\u2019s new offices will accommodate more than twice the number of seats as its 218 West 18th Street location as the company plans to expand next year, a source said.<\/p>\n

CBRE<\/a><\/b>\u2019s Eddie Sisca<\/b> and David Opper <\/b>brokered the deal for the tenant, while Savills<\/a><\/b>\u2019 Scott Bogetti <\/b>and Will Joumas<\/b> represented the sublandlord along with CBRE\u2019s David Hollander<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Spokespeople for CBRE, Savills, Scale AI and Wunderkind did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The Durst Organization<\/a><\/b> and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey<\/a><\/b>, the building\u2019s co-owners, declined to comment.<\/p>\n

Co-founded in 2016 by Alexandr Wang<\/b> and Lucy Guo<\/b>, Scale AI brought in $870 million in revenue in 2024 and is projected to reach $2 billion this year, Bloomberg reported in April<\/a>. In June, Meta<\/a><\/b> purchased a 49 percent stake in Scale AI<\/a> for $14.3 billion and hired Wang as its first chief AI officer to lead Meta Superintelligence Labs<\/b>. Jason Droege<\/b> took Scale AI\u2019s helm<\/a> and became CEO following Wang\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n

Scale AI will now join several other high-profile office tenants at 1WTC, including law firm Frier Levitt<\/b><\/a>, digital asset operator LMAX Group<\/b><\/a>, Bank of New York Mellon Corporation<\/b><\/a>, Cond\u00e9 Nast<\/b>, talent recruiter Specialist Staffing Group<\/b><\/a> and mortgage lender Better Home & Finance<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Isabelle Durso can be reached at idurso@commercialobserver.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Software development company Scale AI is taking over two floors of office space at One World Trade Center,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":291743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[149535,47764,5229,4282,149536,149537,149538,149539,7745,109516,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,49428,122695,149540,149534,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,149541],"class_list":{"0":"post-291742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-218-west-18th-street","9":"tag-alexandr-wang","10":"tag-america","11":"tag-channel","12":"tag-david-hollander","13":"tag-david-opper","14":"tag-eddie-sisca","15":"tag-jason-droege","16":"tag-leases","17":"tag-lucy-guo","18":"tag-new-york","19":"tag-new-york-city","20":"tag-newyork","21":"tag-newyorkcity","22":"tag-ny","23":"tag-nyc","24":"tag-office-leases","25":"tag-one-world-trade-center","26":"tag-scott-bogetti","27":"tag-sublease-1-world-trade-center","28":"tag-united-states","29":"tag-united-states-of-america","30":"tag-unitedstates","31":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","32":"tag-us","33":"tag-usa","34":"tag-will-joumas"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115349477338074043","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}