Amazon.com on Tuesday will unveil its new Manhattan office at the former Lord & Taylor flagship department store, a transformation that highlights how complex office conversions can be. Turning a Fifth Avenue department store that is more than a century old into a modern office came with plenty of challenges. In early 2019, Hudson’s Bay Co., which owned Lord & Taylor at the time, sold the building to an affiliate of WeWork for $850 million. Lord & Taylor closed its last physical store in 2021. Write to Konrad Putzier at konrad.putzier@wsj.comView Full Image Amazon’s Makeover of Lord & Taylor Building Shows Challenge of Office Conversions

Source: Wall Street Journal September 12, 2023 14:46 UTC