Publicis Expands in Midtown

NEW YORK CITY—Publicis Groupe has signed a 15-year lease expansion at 1675 Broadway. The longtime tenant at the Rudin Family tower will now occupy 605,000 square feet, expanding by 25,000 square feet after a 580,000 square-foot lease renewal and expansion earlier this year. Publicis was represented by Joseph Thanhauser and Gordon Ogden of Byrnam Wood. Building ownership was represented by Robert Steinman, VP at Rudin Management Co. Asking rents are $75 per square foot.

Muss Development has hit a bullseye. The firm has signed a 15-year, 20,795-square-foot lease for a new Target location at 7000 Austin St., a mixed-use property on the main retail street in Forest Hills, Queens. The new flexible format store is scheduled to open in mid-2016, with Target taking both the entire ground and second floors, pending build-out of the space. Muss was represented in-house in the transaction by Bill Bergman. Jeffrey Howard and Doug Weinstein of Ripco Real Estate represented Target.