FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. — JLL has secured a 52,683-square-foot lease transaction at Tower 101, a newly renovated, 21-story office tower located at 101 N.E. 3rd Ave. in downtown Fort Lauderdale. The tenant, Uniforms Direct, is relocating its corporate headquarters from Plantation, Fla., to Tower 101. Uniforms Direct will be the building’s largest tenant and will bring roughly 200 employees to occupy Tower 101’s penthouse level, the 20th floor and half of the 16th and 19th floors. Existing tenants at Tower 101 include Kemet Corp., Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau, the city of Fort Lauderdale and Advantage Opco LLC. Alice Lucia Jackson and Brady Titcomb of JLL represented the landlord, Banyan Street Capital, in the lease transaction. Matthew Cheezem and Zach Wendelin of Cresa represented Uniforms Direct. The transaction is the largest office lease completed in downtown Fort Lauderdale year-to-date.
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