{"id":787280,"date":"2026-05-10T20:39:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/787280\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T20:39:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:39:44","slug":"new-ai-office-leases-stoking-hot-manhattan-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/787280\/","title":{"rendered":"New AI office leases stoking hot Manhattan market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI might one day wreak havoc on commercial real estate, as some fear. But at least right now, it\u2019s only adding fire to the superheated Manhattan market.<\/p>\n<p>The fear is that AI will lead to large employee layoffs, which of course would mean companies would need less office space \u2014 a real estate \u201capocalypse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39337433\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/general-view-clock-tower-one-108815129.jpg\" alt=\"One Madison Avenue clock tower in New York, NY.\" class=\"wp-image-39337433\"  \/>Harvey AI doubled its space at One Madison Avenue in March.  Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n<p>But when Harvey AI, an AI provider to law and other professional firms, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/08\/business\/one-madison-is-now-100-occupied\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">doubled its space<\/a> at One Madison in March, SL Green Green chairman\/CEO Marc Holliday called such ongoing expansions \u201cthe ultimate response to the false narrative that AI is shrinking the workforce in New York City.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week\u2019s news substantiated his optimism. In a dramatic display of AI\u2019s growing real estate clout, Durst and the Port Authority announced that legal and compliance company Norm AI took most of the top floors of 1 World Trade Center, bringing the tower to 97% leased.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, much-in-the-news, San Francisco-based Anthropic \u2014 creator of controversial chatbot Claude \u2014 is close to a deal to lease AEW Capital Management\u2019s entire, 365,000 square-foot 330 Hudson St., the Commercial Observer reported. Anthropic currently has a mere 15,500 square feet in the city.<br \/>Sure doesn\u2019t sound like an apocalypse, does it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI might one day wreak havoc on commercial real estate, as some fear. But at least right now,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":787281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,24142,738,64,7745,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,4329,7747,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,54308],"class_list":{"0":"post-787280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-anthropic","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-leases","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-real-estate","20":"tag-realty-check","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-world-trade-center"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116552216171898908","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787280","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=787280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}