{"id":2435794,"date":"2026-05-28T17:46:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2435794"},"modified":"2026-05-28T17:46:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:46:44","slug":"atg-entertainment-expands-to-19k-sf-at-gfps-630-ninth-avenue-commercial-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/atg-entertainment-expands-to-19k-sf-at-gfps-630-ninth-avenue-commercial-observer\/","title":{"rendered":"ATG Entertainment Expands to 19K SF at GFP\u2019s 630 Ninth Avenue \u2013 Commercial Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-paywall=\"\" data-paywall-type=\"coverup-paywall\" data-post-id=\"569945\">\n<p><b><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/gfp-real-estate\/\" title=\"GFP Real Estate\" class=\"company-link\">GFP Real Estate<\/a> <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">has signed three new deals at its <\/span><b>630 Ninth Avenue<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> office building, also known as the <\/span><b>Film Center Building<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, totaling 24,815 square feet, the landlord announced Thursday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the largest of the three deals, <b><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/atg-entertainment\/\" title=\"ATG Entertainment\" class=\"company-link\">ATG Entertainment<\/a> <\/b>\u2014 which rebranded from its original name <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/ambassador-theatre-group\/\" title=\"Ambassador Theatre Group\" class=\"company-link\">Ambassador Theatre Group<\/a> in April 2024<b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> signed a long-term lease extension and doubled its footprint on the building\u2019s fifth floor to 19,380 square feet, according to GFP. The U.K.-based group, one of the largest live theater and entertainment companies in the world, moved into the building around 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><om-see-also id=\"see-also-related-post\" class=\"see-also-related-post\"><span>SEE ALSO: <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2026\/05\/law-firm-taft-lease-durst-1155-avenue-of-the-americas\/\">Law Firm Taft Inks 17K SF at Durst\u2019s 1155 Avenue of the Americas for First NYC Office<\/a><\/om-see-also><\/p>\n<p><b>Rocco Laginestra<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from <\/span><b><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/cbre\/\" title=\"CBRE\" class=\"company-link\">CBRE<\/a><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> represented the tenant, while <\/span><b>Matthew Mandell<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, senior managing director at GFP, represented the landlord in-house in all three transactions. Laginestra did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cLarge, long-term commitments like ATG\u2019s are what set the pace for a building,\u201d Mandell said in a statement. \u201cThat kind of expansion reinforces 630 Ninth Avenue\u2019s role as a hub for theater, media and production-oriented users. From there, we\u2019re seeing a steady flow of smaller transactions from firms that value the same infrastructure and location advantages, which keeps the building active across multiple tenant sizes.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additionally, video production services agency <\/span><b><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/crc-media\/\" title=\"CRC Media\" class=\"company-link\">CRC Media<\/a><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> signed a new five-year lease for 2,618 square feet on the building\u2019s ninth floor. The company will relocate within the building, using its new space for general and executive offices. <\/span><b>Wayne Siegel<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from <\/span><b><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/lsl-advisors\/\" title=\"LSL Advisors\" class=\"company-link\">LSL Advisors<\/a> <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">represented the tenant, but did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/pksb-architects\/\" title=\"PKSB Architects\" class=\"company-link\">PKSB Architects<\/a> <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">also signed a long-term direct lease extension for 2,816 square feet on the building\u2019s 12th floor, GFP said. No tenant broker was listed for this deal. PKSB, a 50-year-old architecture firm, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The lengths of the lease extensions and the asking rent for each lease were not disclosed. The average asking rent for office space in Midtown was $85.11 per square foot in March, according to <\/span><b>CBRE<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> data.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Built in 1929, 630 Ninth Avenue is a newly renovated, 13-story office building stretching from West 44th to West 45th streets in Manhattan\u2019s Hell\u2019s Kitchen neighborhood and spanning 275,000 square feet. Animation studio <\/span><b>Zoic Studios<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and travel agency the<\/span><b> Accomplished Traveler <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">are also tenants in the building.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amanda Schiavo can be reached at <\/span><\/i><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2026\/05\/ambassador-theatre-group-lease-expansion-gfp-630-ninth-avenue\/mailto:aschiavo@commercialobserver.com\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">aschiavo@commercialobserver.com<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source commercialobserver.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GFP Real Estate has signed three new deals at its 630 Ninth Avenue office building, also known as the Film Center Building, totaling 24,815 square feet, the landlord announced Thursday.\u00a0 In the largest of the three deals, ATG Entertainment \u2014 which rebranded from its original name Ambassador Theatre Group in April 2024 \u2014 signed a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2435795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[478079,478080,362868,478081,362869,478082,478083],"class_list":["post-2435794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-630-ninth-avenue","tag-film-center-building","tag-leases","tag-matthew-mandell","tag-office-leases","tag-rocco-laginestra","tag-wayne-siegel-channel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ATG-Entertainment-Expands-to-19K-SF-at-GFPs-630-Ninth.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2435794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2435796,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435794\/revisions\/2435796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2435795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2435794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2435794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2435794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}