Cravath to Anchor Brookfield’s Two Manhattan West Skyscraper

<-rte-company state="{"_id":"0000016d-96dd-d12e-a36f-d7ff82120000","_type":"00000160-4b23-d8bd-adfd-4b3348fd0000"}">Brookfield Properties bet at the start of the year that it could begin construction on the second skyscraper in its Manhattan West project and find an anchor tenant later. Now it has.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP signed a lease for Two Manhattan West in New York, according to a statement Friday. The law firm will move into the 58-story office building, slated for completion in 2022, in 2024 and occupy 13 floors.

“When we were sitting there at the beginning of the year making the decision to commit,” it was on the heels of having pre-leased 90% of One ...