(Bloomberg)—Automaker Hyundai Motor Group purchased a Manhattan constructing to accommodate workplaces and a showroom, becoming a member of a gaggle of firms increasing their base within the metropolis and proudly owning their very own actual property.

Hyundai, based mostly in Seoul, is paying about $275 million in money for 15 Laight St. within the Tribeca neighborhood, in response to folks acquainted with the matter, who requested to not be named as a result of the transaction is non-public. The eight-story boutique workplace constructing close to the Holland Tunnel was newly redeveloped and contains out of doors terraces on every flooring.

The vendor was Vanbarton Group, developer of the roughly 108,000-square-foot (10,034-square-meter) constructing. The agency declined to remark. A consultant for Hyundai didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

The deal was brokered by Newmark Group Inc., which declined to remark.

Workplace transactions in Manhattan have slowed dramatically as distant work and cost-cutting measures scale back demand for house. Almost a fifth of the town’s workplace provide is offered for lease, in response to a fourth-quarter report by Newmark. Main lenders want to scale back their publicity to workplace loans, making it tougher for potential consumers to get financing for constructing purchases.

Nonetheless, some offers are getting carried out for high-quality workplaces. Corporations are gravitating towards newly constructed areas, and a few tenants are shopping for their workplaces outright with many looking for new developments, or heavily-renovated buildings.

Final 12 months, Citadel’s Ken Griffin confirmed plans to construct a 1.7 million-square-foot skyscraper on Park Avenue to function the headquarters for his companies in New York. Memorial Sloan Kettering Most cancers Middle struck a deal to purchase house for workplaces at 885 Third Ave., often called the Lipstick Constructing. In early 2022, Google bought St. John’s Terminal, which it was already leasing, for $2.1 billion.

Hyundai Motor Group, which owns each the Hyundai and Kia automotive manufacturers, pledged in 2021 to take a position billions within the US by 2025, a dedication that covers electric-vehicle vegetation, hydrogen refueling stations and unmanned flying taxis.

–With help from Gabrielle Coppola.

To contact the writer of this story: Natalie Wong in New York at [email protected]

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