{"id":26416,"date":"2020-02-07T16:08:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T14:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/?p=26416"},"modified":"2025-03-25T16:09:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T13:09:38","slug":"whittle-school-lease-wheeler-tishman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/whittle-school-lease-wheeler-tishman\/","title":{"rendered":"Whittle School Signs Lease for Tishman\u2019s Recently Completed 620K SF Brooklyn Office Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Whittle School\u2015a private school founded by former Esquire<\/em> magazine Chairman Chris Whittle\u2015has signed a 20-year lease for 620,000 square feet of office space at the Wheeler<\/a> complex in downtown Brooklyn<\/a>. The deal comes at the tail end of several months of negotiations between owner and developer, Tishman Speyer, and its new tenant; essentially, it ensures full occupancy for the office portion<\/a> of the recently completed building at 181 Livingston Street. Whittle School was represented by CBRE\u2019s David Maurer-Hollaender and Douglas Lehman, while Mary Ann Tighe, Jeff Fischer, Evan Haskell, Zac Price and Dave Caperna\u2015also of CBRE\u2015represented the owner.<\/p>\n

The Brooklyn office building is Whittle School\u2019s third campus in the U.S. following the opening of two locations in Washington, D.C. The for-profit facility has also had a campus in Shenzhen, China, since 2019. Whittle School plans to begin its early learning program at the Wheeler complex by the end of the year; its full kindergarten through 12th<\/sup> grade operation is expected to open by September 2021. On-site amenities for the private school<\/a> will include a gym, 130 bicycle storage units, a theater, space for advanced robotics, recreational spaces and rooms for boarders. Additionally, the Wheeler is ideally situated at the intersection of several subway stations and lines, including the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station on the A, C and G lines, as well as the A, C, F and R lines at Jay St-MetroTech.<\/p>\n

\"Downtown

Downtown Brooklyn
Source: Shutterstock<\/p><\/div>\n

The 10-story office building occupied by the Whittle School sits atop 222,200 square feet of retail space owned by Macy\u2019s. When Tishman acquired 422 Fulton Street in August 2015\u2015in a $270 million<\/a> transaction that also included the parking garage at 11 Hoyt Street\u2015the building crowning the department store had only five stories. Later, Macy\u2019s consolidated its operations into 278,000 square feet on the lower half of the Wheeler, while Tishman expanded the property by another five stories. It also restored the lower building\u2019s cast-iron Art Deco fa\u00e7ade and distinctive roof and terrace railings.<\/p>\n

The newly built glass tower was designed by Perkins Eastman and the Shimoda Design Group, and features a 10,000-square-foot rooftop terrace with unobstructed views of Brooklyn Bridge, the Statue of Liberty, Lower Manhattan<\/a> and New York harbor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Whittle School\u2015a private school founded by former Esquire magazine Chairman Chris Whittle\u2015has signed a 20-year lease for 620,000 square feet of office space at the Wheeler complex in downtown Brooklyn. The deal comes at the tail end of several months of negotiations between owner and developer, Tishman Speyer, and its new tenant; essentially, it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":26421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[37,38,4014,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commercial-real-estate-news","category-deals","category-featured","category-office","wpautop"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhittle School Signs Lease for Tishman\u2019s Recently Completed 620K SF Brooklyn Office Space - CommercialCafe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The deal comes at the tail end of several months of negotiations between owner and developer, Tishman Speyer, and its new tenant; essentially, it ensures...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/whittle-school-lease-wheeler-tishman\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Whittle School Signs Lease for Tishman\u2019s Recently Completed 620K SF Brooklyn Office Space\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The deal comes at the tail end of several months of negotiations between owner and developer, Tishman Speyer, and its new tenant; essentially, it ensures...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/whittle-school-lease-wheeler-tishman\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"CommercialCafe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-02-07T14:08:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-03-25T13:09:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/Brooklyn-bridge.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Diana Sabau\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Diana Sabau\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/whittle-school-lease-wheeler-tishman\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/whittle-school-lease-wheeler-tishman\/\",\"name\":\"Whittle School Signs Lease for Tishman\u2019s Recently Completed 620K SF Brooklyn Office Space - CommercialCafe\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/whittle-school-lease-wheeler-tishman\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/whittle-school-lease-wheeler-tishman\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/Brooklyn-bridge.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-02-07T14:08:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-03-25T13:09:38+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/8ed2c6db9854340d5ddeef532edde241\"},\"description\":\"The deal comes at the tail end of several months of negotiations between owner and developer, Tishman Speyer, and its new tenant; essentially, it ensures...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/whittle-school-lease-wheeler-tishman\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/whittle-school-lease-wheeler-tishman\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/whittle-school-lease-wheeler-tishman\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/Brooklyn-bridge.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/Brooklyn-bridge.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":500,\"caption\":\"Brooklyn bridge\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/whittle-school-lease-wheeler-tishman\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Whittle School Signs Lease for Tishman\u2019s Recently Completed 620K SF Brooklyn Office Space\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"CommercialCafe\",\"description\":\"Your Commercial Real Estate Blog\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/8ed2c6db9854340d5ddeef532edde241\",\"name\":\"Diana Sabau\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/04\/badge.png?w=93\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/04\/badge.png?w=93\",\"caption\":\"Diana Sabau\"},\"description\":\"Drawing on years of intense research in the U.S. commercial real estate market at Yardi Matrix, Diana now applies her expertise as a writer for the CommercialCafe blog. Her articles focus on CRE investment, labor market trends, and technology, and have been picked up by prestigious publications including the New York Times, GlobeSt, The Real Deal, NAIOP, MSN, and Bisnow.\",\"sameAs\":[\"diana.sabau@yardi.com\"],\"jobTitle\":\"Senior Content Writer, CRE News & Market Analysis\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/author\/diana-sabau\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Whittle School Signs Lease for Tishman\u2019s Recently Completed 620K SF Brooklyn Office Space - CommercialCafe","description":"The deal comes at the tail end of several months of negotiations between owner and developer, Tishman Speyer, and its new tenant; essentially, it ensures...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/whittle-school-lease-wheeler-tishman\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Whittle School Signs Lease for Tishman\u2019s Recently Completed 620K SF Brooklyn Office Space","og_description":"The deal comes at the tail end of several months of negotiations between owner and developer, Tishman Speyer, and its new tenant; essentially, it ensures...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/whittle-school-lease-wheeler-tishman\/","og_site_name":"CommercialCafe","article_published_time":"2020-02-07T14:08:56+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-03-25T13:09:38+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1280,"height":500,"url":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/Brooklyn-bridge.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Diana Sabau","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Diana Sabau","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/whittle-school-lease-wheeler-tishman\/","url":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/whittle-school-lease-wheeler-tishman\/","name":"Whittle School Signs Lease for Tishman\u2019s Recently Completed 620K SF Brooklyn Office Space - CommercialCafe","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/whittle-school-lease-wheeler-tishman\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/whittle-school-lease-wheeler-tishman\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/Brooklyn-bridge.jpg","datePublished":"2020-02-07T14:08:56+00:00","dateModified":"2025-03-25T13:09:38+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/8ed2c6db9854340d5ddeef532edde241"},"description":"The deal comes at the tail end of several months of negotiations between owner and developer, Tishman Speyer, and its new tenant; essentially, it ensures...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/whittle-school-lease-wheeler-tishman\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/whittle-school-lease-wheeler-tishman\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/whittle-school-lease-wheeler-tishman\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/Brooklyn-bridge.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/Brooklyn-bridge.jpg","width":1280,"height":500,"caption":"Brooklyn bridge"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/whittle-school-lease-wheeler-tishman\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Whittle School Signs Lease for Tishman\u2019s Recently Completed 620K SF Brooklyn Office Space"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/","name":"CommercialCafe","description":"Your Commercial Real Estate Blog","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/8ed2c6db9854340d5ddeef532edde241","name":"Diana Sabau","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/04\/badge.png?w=93","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/04\/badge.png?w=93","caption":"Diana Sabau"},"description":"Drawing on years of intense research in the U.S. commercial real estate market at Yardi Matrix, Diana now applies her expertise as a writer for the CommercialCafe blog. Her articles focus on CRE investment, labor market trends, and technology, and have been picked up by prestigious publications including the New York Times, GlobeSt, The Real Deal, NAIOP, MSN, and Bisnow.","sameAs":["diana.sabau@yardi.com"],"jobTitle":"Senior Content Writer, CRE News & Market Analysis","url":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/author\/diana-sabau\/"}]}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/Brooklyn-bridge.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26424,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26416\/revisions\/26424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}