CBRE Group Establishes Global Financial Headquarters at Lever House in Midtown Manhattan

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NEW YORK, NY–CBRE Group, Inc.  announced that the company will establish a Global Financial Headquarters, designed and operated by Industrious, at Lever House, 390 Park Avenue, in Midtown Manhattan.

The move reflects CBRE’s increasing financial presence in New York, the growth of its investment management business and the company’s greater intertwinement with the public and private capital markets through its mergers-and-acquisition activity and coinvestments in real estate and other assets. CBRE expects to occupy the Lever House space in the fourth quarter of 2025.

CBRE global corporate headquarters continues to be at 2121 North Pearl Street in Dallas.

At Lever House, CBRE will lease 64,350 sq ft of contiguous space on six floors. Four floors will house CBRE Investment Management’s headquarters operations, including its Co-CEOs; CBRE’s Chief Financial Officer and various corporate functions that support the company globally, as well as national lines of business that interact directly with the capital markets. The remaining two floors will be dedicated to an Industrious flex workspace targeted to senior executives.

CBRE has partnered with Industrious to deliver the Global Financial Headquarters under a unique operating model: a managed fixed-flex lease. Industrious will manage the design, buildout, operations and experience of the space as well as operate the adjacent Industrious flex workplace. This will allow CBRE to grow its occupancy over time, share in amenities and programming with the adjacent Industrious workspace and benefit from profits generated by the Industrious workspace.

“Lever House is a premier address that will help us to attract top real estate finance talent,” said Bob Sulentic, CBRE’s chair and chief executive officer. “It’s located in the heart of Midtown’s financial district and is a convenient walk to 200 Park, which has been the hub of our New York operations for more than 30 years. The floors overlooking a landscaped third floor atrium will enable us to create a compelling workplace experience, and we are excited to be entering into this first-of-its-kind operating model with Industrious.”

“We’re very excited to partner with CBRE on this project and deliver a space their people will want to go to everyday,” said Jamie Hodari, Industrious’ chief executive officer and co-founder. “Equally exciting is the value to CBRE we can provide through this new mode of occupancy. I think their team is going to love it and it could point the way forward for a new kind of corporate HQ.”

Lever House, one of the most iconic and architecturally significant buildings in New York City, was designated as the city’s first modernist landmark in 1982. In 2023, Lever House co-owners WatermanClark and Brookfield Properties completed a $100 million redevelopment, featuring a revitalized lobby, ground-level public plaza and entirely modernized building systems.

200 Park will continue to serve as the headquarters of CBRE’s New York Tri-State Advisory Services business and house the company’s New York-based Global Workplace Solutions teams.

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