NAI Carolantic Arranges Nutanix’s 70,000 SF Lease in Chesterfied Building in Downtown Durham

DURHAM, N.C. — NAI Carolantic has arranged a 70,000-square-foot lease with Nutanix, a San Jose-based software firm that is expanding its East Coast presence. The company will occupy space at the Chesterfield, an adaptive reuse of a former tobacco building in downtown Durham that Wexford Science + Technology is currently redeveloping. Upon completion the property will include lab and office space, a six-story atrium, 11,500 square feet of ground-level retail space and 42,000 square feet of shared lab innovation space. Robin Roseberry Anders of NAI Carolantic is the leasing agent for the Chesterfield building. Other committed Chesterfield tenants include Duke University for 100,000 square feet and BioLabs NC for 42,000 square feet. Marlene Spritzer, Edwin Yarbrough and Whitney Rodgers of Savills Studley’s Durham office advised Nutanix in the lease negotiations. Joe Brady and Mike Mordaunt of Savills Studley’s San Jose office, who have worked with Nutanix’s headquarters office since the tech firm’s founding, collaborated with Savills Studley’s Durham team on the transaction. Wexford plans to deliver the property in January 2017.