RFR Realty’s 17 State Street adds three tenants

RFR Realty’s 17 State Street in the Financial District has signed three new tenants: an insurance company and two investment firms.

National Liability & Fire Insurance Company grabbed 8,511 square feet on the 22nd floor; Hale Capital Management took 3,898 square feet on the 32nd floor; and Charlestown Capital Advisors took 2,000 square feet on the 38th floor, the New York Observer reported.

Asking rents at the 42-story, 540,000-square-foot building, which was designed by Emery Roth & Sons in the 1980s, are nearly $60 per square foot.

John Barry of Richards Barry Joyce & Partners and Michael Shakespeare of Colliers International represented National Liability & Fire Insurance. Cushman & Wakefield’s Jonathan Luttwak and Willard Overlock handled the deal for Hale. Interactive Properties broker Michael Elkin represented Charleston. Ryan Silverman and AJ Camhi represented Aby Rosen-led RFR in-house, the Observer said.

In July, law firm Nelson Levine de Luca & Hamilton signed a lease for 29,386 square feet on the 29th and 30th floors, as previously reported. [NYO] — Mark Maurer