NEW YORK CITY-The Durst Organization, the family-run owner/manager of 13 million square feet of Manhattan office towers, has selected CBRE to lease the retail space at the base of its 1.8-million-square-foot 4 Times Square, the former home of ESPN Zone located at the “Crossroads of the World” – the corner of Broadway and West 42^nd Street.

The announcement comes shortly after specialty fashion retailer Express was in talks for the three-story, 42,550-square-foot space, but was wooed by a “stronger location” owned by SL Green Realty Corp. and Jeff Sutton at 1552 Broadway in the heart of Time Square’s bow-tie. Now, CBRE’s retail team of Amira Yunis, Gary Trock, Matthew Krell and Lyle Trued are marketing the space, pushing the location’s visibility and proximity to the city’s most accessed subway station: Times Square – 42^nd Street.

“We will be unveiling a new storefront and signage design that will highlight what is arguably the most prominent corner in the United States,” Yunis says, in a statement. “This is an opportunity to occupy a fantastic flagship location near some of the top selling retail outlets in the US, including Forever 21, American Eagle and Aeropostale.”