SL Green putting finishing touches on $225M facelift at 245 Park Ave.

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Cuozzo, S. (2026, October 18). SL Green putting finishing touches on $225M facelift at 245 Park Ave. New York Post. https://nypost.com/2026/10/18/business/sl-green-putting-finishing-touches-on-225m-facelift-at-245-park-ave/

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New York Post · collected 2026-10-18 · by Steve Cuozzo

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SL Green is completing a $225 million renovation at 245 Park Avenue, a 1.8 million square-foot, 44-story tower that reached full occupancy in September. The project includes a new public plaza and facade by KPF architects, as well as tenant amenities and a restaurant from John Meadow’s LDV Hospitality. SL Green CEO Marc Holliday credits the joint venture with Mori Trust and city planning cooperation for making the building competitive in the Park Avenue market. Rents have increased from around $85 per square foot to up to $185 psf since SL Green took control of the property in 2022 following a bankruptcy.
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As of October 18, 2026, SL Green is completing its $225 million renovation at 245 Park Avenue, with final touches expected to be finished by March. The project includes a new public plaza and an updated facade designed by KPF architects. SL Green CEO Marc Holliday described the redevelopment as a "seismic" change, highlighting improvements such as lavish tenant amenities and a restaurant from John Meadow’s LDV Hospitality. The renovation aims to bring the 44-story tower up to world-class standards in the competitive Park Avenue market.

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📰 SL Green Park Avenue Renovation
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Steve Cuozzo
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🔮 The work is expected to wrap up in March.
🔮 Marquee-name tenants have already been signed for about half of the building’s 930,000 square feet — insurance giant Starr and law firm McDermott Will & Schulte.
2026-10-11 · assertive framing · BXP’s 343 Madison Ave. tower is going up
🔮 It routinely calls out the policies of blue-state mayors in Chicago and Portland who brought ruin to their cities strewn with homeless drug addicts and street criminals.
🔮 The complex would contain up to 2,300 apartments — estimated to cost around $1 billion and perhaps the city’s largest fully-entitled housing development site.
🔮 The repositioned tower will be re-
🔮 Meanwhile, even as demand shows no sign of letting up, no additional inventory will become available for years at such planned projects as Vornado and Ken Griffin’s 350 Park Ave., BXP’s 343 Madison Ave. and SL Green’s 346 Madison Ave.
🔮 JLL marketing materials cite 2,507 square feet although no one would confirm the number.
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🔮 No one involved at 1150 Sixth Ave. could immediately be reached.
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KPF LDV Hospitality Mori Trust SL Green SL Green’s

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Holliday PERSON · 6× SL Green ORG · 4× John Meadow’s PERSON · 2× KPF ORG · 2× Department of City Planning ORG · 1× LDV Hospitality ORG · 1× Marc Holliday PERSON · 1× Mori Trust ORG · 1× Nearwater Management ORG · 1× SL Green’s ORG · 1×

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The 44-story tower on the entire block between East 46th and East 47th is putting the finishing touches on what SL Green CEO Marc Holliday called a “seismic,” $225 million repositioning.
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🔮 The work is expected to wrap up in March.
2026-10-18 · New York Post
SL Green putting finishing touches on $225M facelift at 245 Park Ave. · assertive framing

Claims (21 extracted, 0 hedged)

Fresh off a $2 billion re-fi, SL Green’s 1.8 million square-foot 245 Park Avenue reached 100% occupancy in September — and that’s only part of the property’s story. asserted
that → reach → story
The 44-story tower on the entire block between East 46th and East 47th is putting the finishing touches on what SL Green CEO Marc Holliday called a “seismic,” $225 million repositioning. asserted
Holliday → put → what
The project includes a new wraparound public plaza, a striking new Park Avenue podium facade by KPF, lavish tenant amenities and, soon, a restaurant from John Meadow’s LDV Hospitality. asserted
project → include → Hospitality
“It’s a quintessential SLG Green case study,” Holliday told us. asserted
Holliday → ’ → us
We breathe new life into older buildings and bring them up to world-class standards.” asserted
We → breathe → standards
The work is expected to wrap up in March. asserted
work → expect → March
Holliday credited joint-venture partner Mori Trust and architects KPF for “sharing our vision” to make 245 Park Avenue fully competitive in the red-hot Park Avenue market. asserted
Avenue → credit → market
He also expressed gratitude to the Department of City Planning for cooperating in the plaza redesign. asserted
He → express → redesign
Rents at 245 Park were around $85 per square foot when SL Green took total control of the property in 2022 following a “contentious bankruptcy” by the previous owner, Holliday said. asserted
Holliday → take → owner
The lease that filled the building was for Nearwater Management, which took 36,563 square feet. asserted
which → fill → feet
SL Green first entered the 245 Park picture as a lender in 2018. asserted
Green → enter → 2018
It was technically about 80% full when SL Green took over four years later, but that’s misleading since a number of leases were expiring. asserted
number → take → leases
“We had to re-establish good tenant relationships” after disruption during the bankruptcy, Holliday said. asserted
Holliday → have → bankruptcy
The tower has since lured Area Management, Carlyle Investment Management, EQT Partners and Houlihan Lokey. asserted
tower → lure → Partners
Holliday said of the re-fi, “We’re thrilled at the support we got from the debt community, it’s very satisfying.” asserted
it → say → community
The new loan led by JP Morgan Chase and including six other banks replaced a $1.2 billion mortgage loan and a $568 mezzanine loan. asserted
loan → lead → loan
The tower will soon have a restaurant from John Meadow’s LVD Hospitality. asserted
tower → have → Hospitality
It will fill a 10,000 square-foot ground-level corner at the north end of the Park Avenue side. asserted
It → fill → side
We don’t know why,” Holliday said. asserted
Holliday → know → ?
“We chose LVD because they’re great operators.” asserted
they → choose → LVD
Meadow is known for his popular Scarpetta trattorias but a concept for 245 Park has yet to be chosen. asserted
concept → know → Park
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