Robert Marc takes 500 SF on West Broadway

Real Estate Weekly, August 22, 2001

Robert Marc, a fashion eyewear retailer, has signed a 10-year lease for 500 square feet of ground floor plus basement space at 436 West Broadway for its first ever SoHo store, which it is slated to move into this August.

Yair H. Staav, along with his team of retail and fashion specialists, Bill Melville, Christine Emery and Douglas Zinn, of The Lansco Corporation represented the landlord and Joel Isaacs of Isaacs & Co. represented the tenant in the negotiations. The space was formerly occupied by Antique Addiction.

"It is really difficult to find a small storefront in SoHo, so naturally the tenant was happy to be able to find space in this location," commented Staav, who also sold the building to the landlord two years ago, creating the opportunity to begin the transformation from old tenants to more high fashion ones, such as Villebrequin, Cecile Jean Jewelers, Perlier Kelemata and Swatch.