Real Estate Roundup 2.19.20

Real Estate Roundup:

Office leasing

• Co-working company Breather has inked a 13,200 square-foot lease at Thor Equities and United American Land’s 734 Broadway. (CO)

Retail leasing 

• Very Fresh Noodles has inked an 830-square-foot space at Vanbarton Group’s 980 Sixth Avenue. Asking rent on the deal was $374 per SF. (NYPost)

• Swiss watchmaker Vacheron Constantin has inked a deal to move to 30 East 57th Street. (NYPost)

Plans 

• Leviathan Capital has filed plans to build an 129,000-square-foot mixed-use project at 122 Sanford Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The 132-unit property will include residential and commercial space. (TRD)

Other news 

• The legal challenges against 200 Amsterdam Avenue, a 52-story tower on the Upper West Side, have culminated in an unprecedented decision: A State Supreme Court judge has ordered that the building must lose as many as 20 floors (or more) in accordance with the zoning for the neighborhood. Developers SJP Properties and Mitsui Fudosan America plan to appeal the ruling. (CurbedNY)

• More New York City hotel owners are defaulting on their mortgages, succumbing to a crush of new supply and rising expenses. (WSJ)