Famed Plaza District fades as Manhattan office landscape shifts
New York
LOWER leasing costs, more efficient office space and the hope of projecting an image more appealing to millennials are leading hedge funds and large corporations to leave Manhattan's most-coveted business district for a rejuvenated Downtown and the trendy far West Side.
The construction of gigantic new office buildings that allow tenants to use 20 per cent less space is pressuring prices and driving firms like consultants BCG and law firm WilmerHale out of the tony Plaza District in Midtown Manhattan.
In the latest potential blow to the area surrounding the elegant Plaza Hotel - the city's most covet…
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