Commercial Space for Lease: Full Floors for 75 to 100 People, Search Through Buildout
Commercial space, on this site, means office floors for lease in Manhattan, and this page is about the large ones: a full floor for an established company of roughly 75 to 100 people. At that size Nomad handles the whole project, from the search and the lease to the buildout and the running of the office afterward. Plan on 13,000 to 17,500 square feet at the standard figure, more with many private offices, and four to six months from first tour to desks when the floor is built to your plan. A broker reaches out within the hour during business hours.
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Send me full floors for 100Updated 2026-10-03 · Nomad Group
What changes when the requirement is a full floor
A company of 75 to 100 is no longer choosing among suites. It is choosing a building, and three things shift.
- The biggest floors sit mostly in the Midtown towers and the larger loft buildings, and there are fewer of them, so the search starts earlier.
- The floor is usually built to your plan, which puts a construction project inside the lease.
- Tower landlords negotiate institutionally: slower, more documented and more attentive to the tenant's credit.
We treat commercial property for rent and lease at this scale as one project with one team.
Space math for 75 to 100 people
At 175 square feet per person, 75 people need about 13,125 square feet and 100 need about 17,500. Where many people need private offices, plan nearer 225 each, which takes 100 people to about 22,500.
We settle the number with a test fit on each finalist, since column spacing and the position of the elevators change how many rooms a plate holds. The floors below are sized for about 100 people.
Lead time: why a full-floor search starts two quarters out
A custom buildout typically takes 10 to 16 weeks once the lease is signed, covering design, permits and construction. The search, the proposals and the lease negotiation come first, so first tour to desks runs four to six months.
The way to hold that range is to overlap the stages, which we can do with brokerage and construction in one firm. Design starts while the lease is still being negotiated, so the buildout is priced before you sign and filings can go in at signing. Dates firm up once a contractor has priced the drawings. The buildout cost and timeline guide shows each phase.
Beyond a full-floor lease: construction and facilities in one firm
Nomad's work does not end at signature. Our construction management team coordinates design, handles filings and landlord approvals, manages the contractor and brings in furniture, cabling and AV. Once you are in, facilities management covers cleaning, repairs, vendors and on-call support.
The record behind that: 300+ offices delivered and 2M+ sq ft leased.
How a full-floor search starts with Nomad
Send headcount, the date and a budget. A broker reaches out within the hour during business hours, and a first shortlist can be ready within 24 hours, showing the size and asking rent of each candidate. Tours follow, usually three to five floors in an afternoon, with a Nomad principal on the deal. In most transactions the landlord pays the broker fee.
Floors that fit a team of 100
Live from our listings · smallest firstA team of 100 plans on about 17,500 square feet at 175 a person. 4 floors on our book sit in the range that fits, 17,500 to 31,500 square feet, asking $56 to $130 per square foot per year.
- Floors
- 4
- Sizes
- 17,610-27,344 sq ft
- Asking rent
- $56-$130 / sq ft
- 151 West 26th Street, 12th Floor Penthouse 17,610 sq ft $56/sq ft Chelsea about 101 people
- 275 Seventh Avenue, Entire 24th Floor 18,668 sq ft $63/sq ft Chelsea about 107 people
- 277 Park Avenue, Partial 40th Floor 19,097 sq ft $130/sq ft Midtown about 109 people
- One Soho Square, Partial 2nd Floor 27,344 sq ft $68/sq ft SoHo about 156 people
The full guide
This page is the short answer. The long one, with the numbers worked through, is here:
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- Find Office Space for Rent Fast: Six to Eight Weeks From Tour to Desks
Does commercial space on this page include retail or industrial property?
No. Commercial space here means offices. Every floor we publish is an office floor in Manhattan, and full-floor office requirements are the work this page describes.
Can a 100-person company fit on one floor in a loft district?
Sometimes. Chelsea's garment-era lofts run as large as 19,000 square feet a floor, which holds about a hundred at the standard figure. Past that headcount the Midtown towers offer more choice, since that is where the largest floors are.
Who manages the contractor during a full-floor buildout?
Nomad's construction team does, on your behalf. It owns the schedule and the budget from the test fit to the end of construction, whether the landlord's contractor builds the space or you hire your own. Get an estimate on your actual plan before the lease is signed, since that is what shows whether the allowance is large enough.
What should an established company send first?
Headcount by department, the number of private offices, the date the current lease ends and a monthly budget. That is enough for a shortlist. Send it through the start page.
Talk to a broker
Want this answered for your team?
Tell us three things: team size, timing, budget. A first shortlist can be ready within 24 hours, with the asking rent on every floor that publishes one.
- Within the houra broker reaches out during business hours, no automated triage
- On your sidewe work for you on your search, and the landlord usually pays our fee
- Open pricingasking rent published for 46 of 49 floors, size and address for all
- 300+ officesdelivered in New York, 2M+ sq ft leased
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