Real Estate
Moving In
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
EDAVENPORT@QNS.COM
An insurance company with office
space in Long Island City
is subleasing its tremendous
office space, the Commercial
Observer reported.
MetLife, which currently operates
at the Brewster Building, located at
27-01 Queens Plaza North, will be
subleasing office space to health insurance
provider Fidelis Care, which
is taking more than 21,000 square
feet, and to the coworking firm We-
Work, who will have nearly 43,000
square feet.
The deals for Fidelis and WeWork
were signed last month, according to
the report. Fidelis will take the 11th
floor of the Brewster Building, which
has 21,463 square feet of space.
WeWork signed on to take the 12th
and 13th floors of the building, which
has approximately 42,926 square feet
of space.
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In addition to subleasing for WeWork
and Fidelis, according to the Commercial
Observer, MetLife has sought to sublease
some of its space at the Brewster
Building to its other subtenants, including
JetBlue and the Long Island City
Partnership.
In 2001, MetLife signed a 20-year
lease with the building after a plan to
move the company to Long Island City.
Five years later, the plan was abandoned
and most of the MetLife employees were
relocated back to Manhattan.
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Fidelis will take the
11th floor of the
Brewster Building,
which has 21,463
square feet of
space. WeWork
signed on to take
the 12th and
13th floors of the
building, which
has approximately
42,926 square
feet of space.
