Fashion tenants sign at Empire State Bldg.OshKosh B' Gosh, Inc., the well-known Wisconsin-based children's apparel firm, has leased the entire 38th floor (20,000 square feet) of the Empire State Building, it was announced by Stephen A. Tole tole also tôle n. A lacquered or enameled metalware, usually gilded and elaborately painted. [French tôle, sheet metal, variant of table, table, slab , vice president and general manager of the Empire State Building. The long-term agreement is for an aggregate rental of more than $7.5 million. In retail activity, Tole announced that Au Bon Pain Au Bon Pain (French: At the Place with the Good Bread) is a fast-casual bakery/cafe chain headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Louis Rapuano and Louis Kane founded Au Bon Pain in 1978. Pavailler contributed baking machinery to the venture. Co., Inc. the popular Boston-based French bakery and cafe, has signed a long-term lease for a 3,000-square-foot lobby store location. The transaction is valued at more than $4.5 million. Tole said the following companies also signed new leases recently with the Empire State Building: * Daxor, Inc., which relocated its medical offices from 645 Madison Avenue Madison Avenue, celebrated street of Manhattan, borough of New York City. It runs from Madison Square (23d St.) to the Madison Bridge over the Harlem River (138th St.). In the 1940s and 50s, some of the major U.S. to the Empire's 71st floor * Betty Owen Schools, Inc., 16,000 square feet in the concourse (lower lobby) * American GED GED abbr. 1. general equivalency diploma 2. general educational development GED (US) n abbr (Scol) (= general educational development) → Institute, Inc., 6,500 square feet in the Concourse * Battle & Kern Kern, river, 155 mi (249 km) long, rising in the S Sierra Nevada Mts., E Calif., and flowing south, then southwest to a reservoir in the extreme southern part of the San Joaquin valley. The river has Isabella Dam as its chief facility. Assocs., a retail printing concern, relocated from 281 Fifth Avenue, to the Concourse * Rocky Mount Rocky Mount, city (1990 pop. 48,997), Edgecombe and Nash counties, E N.C., on the Tar River; settled by 1818, inc. 1867. The growing city is the commercial and distribution center of a rich agricultural area (tobacco, cotton, and corn) as well as a large tobacco Undergarment, Inc., an Empire State Building tenant since 1978, expanded to more than 5,000 square feet for a long term lease on the 18th floor * North Bay Apparel, Inc., marketers of men's and boy's outerwear, also expanded its showrooms and offices on the 39th floor to 9,000 square feet * USA Classic, Inc., which features the "Nautica" label for young men's and boy's apparel, expanded to 10,000 square feet for aggregate rentals of more than $6 million * RPM Clothing, Inc., sales agents for men's and boy's sportswear, is moving to the 6th floor, where its new showrooms will occupy 5,000 square feet. RPM has been a tenant since 1979 * Baxter International Baxter International Inc. (NYSE: BAX), is a global healthcare company with 48,000 employees and 2006 sales of US$10.4 billion. Its headquarters is in Deerfield, Illinois. , which sells men's and boy's slacks and sportswear, signed a long term lease for 7,000 square feet. on the 48th floor, for an aggregate rental of $1.2 million. The move represents Baxter's fourth expansion in the Empire State Building since 1986. The men's and boy's apparel industry occupies more than 1.5 million square feet of space in the Empire State Building, which is also home to accounting, law, medical, and financial organizations. |
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