Private equity firm Antares Capital signed a 55,000-square-foot lease at Vornado Realty Trust and SL Green Realty’s 280 Park Avenue.
The lease is for 12 years and asking rents in the building are in the $90s. Antares is moving from Fisher Brothers’ [TRDataCustom] 299 Park Avenue.
The firm was a subsidiary of now-defunct GE Capital until last year, when it was sold to Canada Pension Plan Investment Board as part of a $12 billion deal. CBRE’s Paul Amrich and Neil King represented Antares, while Vornado’s Andrew Ackerman and CBRE’s Peter Turchin and Sam Seiler represented the landlord.
SL Green and Vornado spent $150 million renovating the 1.2 million-square-foot property, which they bought for close to $500 million in 2011.
The building will be the new home of the Four Seasons Restaurant, which was kicked out of RFR Realty’s Seagram Building.
Last year, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC signed a 50,000-square-foot lease at the tower. [Crain’s] — Konrad Putzier