NEW YORK CITY—The Empire State Building has nabbed a new tenant in a relocation from Queens. Finding this to be the right time for a change, watchmaker Bulova has agreed to relocate its corporate headquarters from Woodside, Queens to a new 33,214-square-foot office in the Midtown South tower. The new headquarters will be fully operational by early 2015.
“The relocation of our corporate headquarters to the Empire State Building comes on the heels of a period of tremendous positive change for Bulova,” says company president Gregory Thumm. “The new space is a perfect home for our expanding portfolio of watch brands and signifies a new period of growth for the company.”
Bulova was originally located on Maiden Lane in lower Manhattan, then the nucleus of New York City's jewelry industry in the late 1800s. Since then it has moved its headquarters to Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and then to Woodside, Queens in 1954, where the company still resides.
"Moving back into the center of the fashion capital of the world provides us with a renewed sense of energy and creative spirit while honoring our company's Manhattan origins,” Thumm adds.
Says Thomas Durels, chief of property operations and leasing for Empire State Realty Trust, “We're delighted to welcome Bulova to the Empire State Building. We believe that the respect for history, design and innovation that Bulova and the Empire State Building share will make Bulova's tenancy in the world's most famous office building a huge success.”
Bulova's executive, design, brand management, marketing, sales and support departments will relocate to the new headquarters. The company will continue to use its current Queens location for warehousing purposes.
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Rayna Katz
Rayna Katz is a seasoned business journalist whose extensive experience includes coverage of the lodging sector, travel and the culinary space. She was most recently content director for a business-to-business publisher, overseeing four publications. While at Meeting News, a travel trade publication, she received a Best Reporting award for a story on meeting cancellations in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.
