What’s Going On With Chobani House?

Has Chobani soured on Noho?

Almost two years after the Greek yogurt giant announced plans to turn a new office building at 360 Bowery into its global headquarters, its much-hyped “Chobani House” remains conspicuously quiet.

The 22-story boutique building at the southwest corner of East Fourth Street appears finished on the outside. But inside, there’s little sign of the ambitious office and community hub that Chobani unveiled in October 2024. 

The ground floor, where Chobani announced plans for a community kitchen serving nutritious meals to people in need, is hardly more than a concrete shell. The rest of the building is empty. No office workers are clocking in yet.

It’s a long way from the vision Chobani pitched nearly two years ago when it leased the entire 121,000-square-foot building and announced an expected opening in the fourth quarter of 2025. At the time the lease was signed, The Real Deal reported asking rents that ranged from $120 per foot to $200 per foot for the 5,812-square-foot penthouse.

In a press release, the company described Chobani House as a “new model for urban development” that would include its global business headquarters, an “innovation center” where food scientists would work to eradicate global hunger, an experiential retail space and an incubator lab for NGOs and nonprofits.

Gov. Kathy Hochul touted the company’s 30-year commitment as “a testament to our diverse talent, skills and industries.” The building would also house a nonprofit founded by Chobani CEO Hamdi Ulukaya that helps refugees find jobs, the company said.

It was meant to be a kind of corporate and civic center, with yogurt. But the fourth quarter came and went. Chobani has moved out of its longtime Lafayette Street digs to 53–55 Beach Street in Tribeca, where it signed a 56,000-square-foot lease in February, according to Colliers. The same month, it signed a short-term 21,100-square-foot lease at 99 Hudson Street, according to Crain’s.

Perhaps the new headquarters are just taking longer than expected. A security guard at the Bowery building said the plan is still for Chobani House to open there at some point. The landlord, a partnership that includes Charles Blaichman, SK Development’s father-and-son team Abe and Scott Shnay, and the Ironstate Properties brothers Michael and David Barry, did not respond to requests for comment. A Chobani representative declined to comment.

Meanwhile, Mayor Zohran Mamdani this week appointed Ulukaya, a Turkish immigrant who founded Chobani in 2005 after buying an upstate yogurt plant and is now worth about $12 billion, to his new business advisory council.

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