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A European company that promises to scan your entire body in about an hour has chosen a corner at the edge of SoHo for its American debut.
That company is Neko Health, co-founded by Spotify founder Daniel Ek and CEO Hjalmar Nilsonne, which opened its doors Thursday at 300 Lafayette Street, at Houston Street, according to the company.
The appointment is built around an hour-long, full-body scan that costs $499.
Neko says more than 25,000 New Yorkers signed up for its waitlist before the clinic opened, and it bills the Lafayette Street location as the first of many it plans to open around the city and the country. The company says it has already scanned more than 100,000 people in Sweden and the United Kingdom.
“This city doesn’t settle for good enough, and neither do we,” Ek said in the release, calling New York “the starting point.”
Nilsonne added that there is “no better time than now to bring Neko Health to America.”
Neko’s arrival coincides with a big financing deal for the building itself. The seven-story, COOKFOX-designed structure at 300 Lafayette, completed in 2019, just landed an $85 million refinancing loan from Hudson Bay Capital, Commercial Observer reported. The borrower is InterVest Capital Partners.
Microsoft occupies all of the building’s office space, about 63,000 square feet across floors two through seven. The roughly 19,000 square feet of retail below is leased to Neko Health, New Era and Goldwin.
In a statement quoted by the trade publication, Newmark’s Nick Scribani, whose team arranged the debt, said the property “is as good as boutique product gets in Lower Manhattan.” InterVest’s Rob Rothschild added that buildings like it are “nearly impossible to replicate at today’s replacement costs.”
