NBCUniversal offshoot locks down 250K sf in Midtown Manhattan

NBCUniversal spinoff Versant is becoming conversant with Manhattan’s office market. The media company, led by Mark Lazerus, signed an 85,000-square-foot expansion at Columbia Property Trust’s 229 West 43rd Street in Midtown, the Commercial Observer reported. That’s on top of 165,000 square feet taken at the property a year earlier, bringing its footprint at the building to 250,000 square feet. After occupying the eighth through tenth floors of the property, Versant is adding floors 11, 12 and 14 to its footprint. The asking rents for the six-floor spread range from 70 to 85 per square foot and the deal is for []This article originally appeared on The Real Deal. Click here to read the full story.