Rockefeller Group announced that law firm Latham & Watkins LLP has leased an additional half floor at 1271 Avenue of the Americas, bringing the office space in the building to 100 percent leased after completion of a $600 million redevelopment project.
The law firm is the largest tenant in the 2.1 million square foot building, now occupying more than 435,000 square feet.
First completed in 1959, 1271 was the first building developed in the expansion of Rockefeller Center to the west side of Sixth Avenue. The 48-story building, at 50th Street opposite Radio City Music Hall, was originally owned in partnership with Time Inc., its anchor tenant for nearly 60 years.
Key West business owners lobby legislators over port bill
Key West organizers then assembled at the Governorâs Mansion, where they hoped to send a message to urge the governor to threaten a veto.
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In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Kim Stamps, left, photographs Michigan newlyweds Tyler Gillet, middle, and Ashley Gillet, right, by the Southernmost Point marker Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019, in Key West, Fla. New measures in the Florida Legislature ban cruise ships in Key West with more than 1,300 passengers from docking at the city port and limit the total number of cruise visitors who can disembark each day to 1,500. A similar bill, HB 267, is barreling through the House. [ CAROL TEDESCO | AP ]
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A year into the unprecedented global pause of the world’s largest cruise lines, no other segment of travel faces a more uncertain future, nor as much of a massive transformation to its business model. Beyond the ship’s decks, far-reaching implications loom for those destinations with an outsized dependence on large cruise ship tourism and its ripple effects.
Megaships remain synonymous with risk in the eye of an increasing number of consumers as the industry struggles to regain its clout. The public relations scar might run deeper than the industry likes to admit. A recent survey of 600 cruisers and non-cruisers in the UK and Australia, for example, revealed that 47 percent did not trust cruise lines to look after them if something went wrong during a voyage, while a staggering 67 percent were less willing to cruise because of the pandemic.