Real Estate

Retailer may Rack up deal

Nordstrom Rack is trying on 1095 Sixth Ave. for size.

Sources said the off-price division of luxury-fashion purveyor Nordstrom is hotly pursuing 32,000 square feet of coveted store space at Blackstone’s redesigned, green-glass tower at 42nd Street.

Architects are said to already be drawing up plans. If a deal were completed, it would be a perfect fit for Nordstrom’s growing off-price division — the prime corner floor area is about the same size as the chain’s Union Square location and one planned in Huntington, LI.

Nordstrom and Blackstone have been negotiating for months, sources added, and were past the term-sheet stage. But since so many office and retail negotiations have fallen apart lately, note the caveats:

* Our sources stopped short of saying a lease was out and cautioned that at least one other retailer was still vying for the space.

* It was uncertain whether Nordstrom would take the entire 32,000 feet — or even whether it might involve a different block of 50,000 square feet being readied in the tower’s concourse, which would have a separate midblock-plaza entrance.

Nordstrom is on a coast-to-coast roll, with 226 stores in 30 states including 105 Racks. The company added 18 new stores last year.

The corner selling space at redesigned 1095 Sixth would have uninterrupted sidewalk frontage on the avenue and on West 42nd Street. A Nordstrom Rack signing would be a breakthrough for the fast-transforming south side of 42nd Street between Sixth Avenue and Broadway.

The 1095 space is currently occupied by the NFL, the most recent of several pop-up stores at the site. No one involved in the Nordstrom talks could be reached over the Passover and Easter holidays.

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Talks for a big Morgan Stanley lease renewal and expansion at Brookfield’s One New York Plaza are on the fast track for a possible lease completion “as early as a month from now,” an insider says.

We first reported the negotiations on March 19. Our source says the two sides are “deeper into the documents” following a recent term sheet signing.

Morgan Stanley already has about 800,000 square feet in the 2.6 million behemoth overlooking the harbor. The bank and Brookfield are trying to nail down a long-term renewal as well as 300,000 square feet of expansion.

It’s a deal that Brookfield, Lower Manhattan and the city as a whole need — Wall Street has been laying off staff, hobbling an office market that’s being propped up by law firms and media companies.

Brookfield declined to comment. Newmark Knight Frank spokesperson Mira Matic said neither NKF’s Brian Waterman nor Barry Gosin, Morgan Stanley’s brokers, could be reached.

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Blink Fitness, the “affordable” gym chain owned by Equinox Holdings, is launching its first Midtown outpost at L&L Holding’s 600 Third Ave. at East 40th Street. The health club has signed for nearly 16,000 square feet on the ground floor and in the concourse.

The asking rent on the ground floor was $200 per square foot. Blink also has branches in Noho, Paramus and Yonkers.

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Financial services firm Janney Montgomery Scott is taking 17,882 square feet at the Rudin family’s One Whitehall Street. The firm, which specializes in wealth management, is relocating its downtown headquarters from 26 Broadway. The firm’s Midtown office is at 575 Lexington Ave.

The asking rent was $35 a square foot. CBRE’s Kenneth D. Rapp, Mike Rizzo and Mike Movshovich repped the tenant; Tom Keating repped Rudin in-house.

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