Oscar Health takes 78K sf at Trinity Real Estate’s One Hudson Square

Oscar Health, the insurance startup co-founded by Joshua Kushner, is relocating its offices to 78,000 square feet in Hudson Square.

The company is nearly doubling its space in the move to Trinity Real Estate’s 75 Varick Street, also known as One Hudson Square, the Commercial Observer reported.

Financial terms of the seven-year lease were not available.

Oscar now occupies 39,000 square feet at the Kushner Companies’ Puck Building in Nolita at 295 Lafayette Street, where the company’s been headquartered since it got its start six years ago.

Kerry Van Voris, Oscar’s senior vice president of people, said the new office “have more space to support our employees and teams with a beautifully designed space in a terrific, central location.”

Oscar has 400 employees in New York City and expects to have 250,000 members by the end of the year. The company recently announced plans to expand to Florida, Michigan and Arizona next year, bringing its coverage to 14 markets in nine states.

New York State’s Empire State Development economic corporation is providing Oscar with $3.5 million in performance-based tax credits as part of the deal, in return for a commitment from the company to create 289 new jobs over five years.

Newmark Knight Frank’s David Falk represented Oscar in negotiations along with colleague Jason Greenstein. Falk also leads the Newmark team that handles leasing at the building on behalf of Trinity, which owns the property with Norges Bank and Hines.

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