Anthropic leases full Hudson Square building at 330 Hudson
The AI firm is taking all 16 stories of an AEW-owned Hudson Square building as it moves to double its city headcount.
Anthropic has finalized a lease for the entire 466,000-square-foot building at 330 Hudson Street in Manhattan’s Hudson Square, a full-building commitment that sharply expands the artificial intelligence company’s New York presence. The 16-story property is owned by AEW Capital Management.
Why it matters. The deal is one of the year’s clearest signals that AI companies are becoming an anchor tenant class in Manhattan. Anthropic’s current New York home is roughly 15,000 square feet at 155 Sixth Avenue, so taking all of 330 Hudson represents a step-change in scale — and a vote of confidence in a Hudson Square submarket that has drawn tech occupiers to its converted printing-district lofts.
The numbers. The lease covers the building’s full 466,000 square feet across 16 stories, with room for about 1,700 workers. Anthropic plans to roughly double its New York headcount to 1,000 people by year-end. Existing tenants — including Deloitte, the Financial Times and the marketing agency Anomaly — are set to vacate before the AI firm takes over.
What’s next. Anthropic is expected to begin moving in over the summer, likely occupying the building a floor or two at a time as its current lease winds down. Lease term and asking rent were not disclosed. The commitment adds to a run of large AI-driven office deals reshaping demand in Manhattan, where landlords are increasingly counting on the sector to backfill space and reset rents in tech-favored corridors like Hudson Square.