Urbanspace spreading out on Lex
Well-curated dishes from many lands will soon replace Peking duck at 570 Lexington Ave., the landmarked Art Deco office tower that was long home to Mr. K’s, the pricey but faded Chinese dining temple.
Urbanspace has signed a 11,400 squarefoot lease for what will be the high-end, fast-serve food hall’s second location in East Midtown, The Post has learned.
The venue at Lexington and 51st Street will be similar to hugely popular Urban- space Vanderbilt a few blocks south, with “a different mix of users but a similar concept,” said Chief Executive Eldon Scott.
Urbanspace Vanderbilt opened in 2014 to wide acclaim. It “drastically improves the state of lunchtime ennui for the midtown masses,” The New Yorker said, while Travel + Leisure named it one of the “world’s best new food halls.” Its counterservice eateries include Bushwick-based Roberta’s pizza and Red Hook Lobster Pound and Delaney Chicken.
The asking rent for the groundfloor and mezzanine at 570 Lexington was around $1.5 million a year, sources said.
Urbanspace was repped by CBRE’s Amira Yunis — who praised the “dazzling Art Deco building right on top of a subway stop” — along with her firm’s Anthony Stanford. Landlord the Feil Organization was repped in-house by Nicholas Forelli and Randall Briskin.
Scott, who has yet to announce an opening date for the new location, said he aimed “to bring the newest creative chefs from other parts of the city to East Midtown, the formula that’s worked so well for us at Vanderbilt.”