{"id":513531,"date":"2026-01-13T17:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/513531\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T17:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:12:21","slug":"ai-firm-graphite-signs-24k-sf-deal-with-tishman-speyer-at-148-lafayette-street-commercial-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/513531\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Firm Graphite Signs 24K-SF Deal With Tishman Speyer at 148 Lafayette Street \u2013 Commercial Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artificial intelligence code review platform Graphite<\/a><\/b> signed a new lease in SoHo that will more than triple its office footprint, Commercial Observer has learned.<\/p>\n

The tech firm signed a five-year, 24,000-square-foot lease for the sixth and seventh floors of Tishman Speyer<\/a><\/b>\u2019s 148 Lafayette Street<\/b> in December, with plans to relocate from a 7,000-square-foot space two blocks away at 434 Broadway<\/b>, according to the landlord.<\/p>\n

SEE ALSO: New York Commercial Real Estate Owners Want Action on Skyrocketing Insurance Costs<\/a><\/p>\n

Tishman Speyer did not disclose the asking rent in the building, but the average asking rent in Lower Manhattan was $58.40 per square foot in the fourth quarter of 2025, according to a report from CBRE<\/b><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe acquired 148 Lafayette with the conviction that demand remains strong for top-quality, well-located office properties,\u201d Tishman Speyer Senior Managing Director Chris Shehadeh<\/b> said in a statement. \u201cOur ability to lease these two floors almost immediately after becoming available reinforces that confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Samantha Augarten<\/b> represented Tishman Speyer in-house in the transaction, while Jonathan<\/b> Franzel<\/b> and Leo<\/b> Kon\u00e9<\/b> of Newmark<\/a><\/b> negotiated on behalf of the tenant.<\/p>\n

Newmark did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Tishman Speyer bought the 150,000-square-foot office property at the corner of Lafayette and Howard streets from Steven<\/b> and Michael Elghanayan<\/b>\u2019s real estate investment company Epic<\/b> for $120 million in April 2025, CO reported at the time<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other tenants in the 13-story building include venture capital firm General Catalyst,<\/b> which signed a lease for 42,535 square feet on the 10th through 12th floors of 148 Lafayette in March 2025<\/a>, and cosmetics firm Charlotte Tilbury<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Mark Hallum can be reached at mhallum@commercialobserver.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence code review platform Graphite signed a new lease in SoHo that will more than triple its…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":513532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[229449,5229,229450,229451,7745,229452,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,49428,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-513531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-148-lafayette-street","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-chris-shehadeh","11":"tag-jonathan-franzel","12":"tag-leases","13":"tag-leo-kone-channel","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-office-leases","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115888911007946067","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513531","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=513531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}