The office tower at 1271 Ave. of the Americas was completed as part of the modern expansion of Rockefeller Center.
NEW YORK CITY—Major League Baseball has signed a new lease for approximately 400,000-square-feet at 1271 Ave. of the Americas. The iconic 48-story office tower was completed as part of the modern expansion of Rockefeller Center to the west side of Sixth Avenue.
MLB will occupy six floors of office space in the 2.1-million-square-foot building, which is located on the west side of Sixth Avenue between 50th and 51st Streets in the center of midtown. MLB and MLB Advanced Media plan to consolidate employees at 1271 from separate locations in Midtown and Downtown and are scheduled to take control of the space in 2018—with occupancy expected for 2019.
As part of its agreement, MLB will have the right to use the building's street-level plaza for public events, as well as exclusive use of the eighth-floor outdoor terrace, which overlooks Sixth Avenue with expansive views of Central Park to the north and Lower Manhattan to the south. The office space was previously occupied by Time Inc., which had been the building's anchor tenant for more than five decades before the publisher's relocation in 2015.
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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.
