GREENWICH, CONN. — Financial services firm Kensico Capital Management has signed an 11,016-square-foot office lease at 55 Railroad Ave., a 139,000-square-foot building in the southern coastal Connecticut city of Greenwich. According to LoopNet Inc., the property was built in 1975 and renovated in 2006. Jay Hruska of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, an affiliate of Houston-based Hines, in the lease negotiations. Ed Tonnessen of JLL represented the tenant.
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TEANECK, N.J. — Columbia University Irving Medical Center will open a 4,283-square-foot surgical outpatient center in the Northern New Jersey community of Teaneck. The clinic will be located within the 670,000-square-foot, four-building Glenpointe mixed-use campus. Jeff Schotz, Peter Rossi, Dan Reider, Peter Kasparian and David Simson of Newmark represented the landlord, Alfred Sanzari Enterprises, in the lease negotiations. Gerry Lees and Jeffrey Prezant of Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant.
Stonemont Financial Signs Logistics User to 733,200 SF Industrial Lease in Metro Savannah
by John Nelson
RINCON, GA. — Stonemont Financial Group has signed Armstrong Logistics Inc., a warehousing and logistics service provider based in California, to an industrial lease near Port of Savannah. The logistics firm will fully occupy Building 4A, a 733,200-square-foot cross-dock facility, at Georgia International Trade Center (GITC), a 1,150-acre industrial park in Effingham County that Stonemont Financial is co-developing with The Davis Cos. and Chesterfield. Located in Rincon, the facility features 40-foot clear heights, 175 dock-high doors, four drive-in doors and 208 trailer stalls. Scott Mertz of NAI Global brokered the transaction. Additional partners for the project include Omega Construction as the general contractor, Atlas Collaborative as the architect and Thomas & Hutton as the civil engineer. Stephen Ezelle of Cushman & Wakefield/Gilbert & Ezelle is handling all leasing at GITC. Building 4A is the 10th warehouse that Stonemont Financial has delivered at the park.
SARASOTA, FLA. — Publix Super Markets has opened a 48,000-square-foot grocery store at Fruitville Farms, a mixed-use development underway in Sarasota. Benderson Development is the master developer of the public-private partnership, which will feature 600 apartments, 150,000 square feet of retail and restaurants and a new 120,000-square-foot Sarasota County Administration Center. Located at the intersection of Fruitville Road and Lakewood Ranch Boulevard, the new Publix is the first tenant to open at the shopping center within Fruitville Farms.
WESTLAKE, TEXAS — Weider Fitness & Health has signed a 5,500-square-foot office lease in the North Texas city of Westlake. The space is located within The Terraces, an eight-building, 1.1 million-square-foot development that was originally constructed as a campus for IBM and recently underwent a $25 million repositioning. Haley Hullett of JLL represented the landlord, Chicago-based Glenstar, which bought the property in 2019, in the lease negotiations.
NEW YORK CITY — Interactive Brokers Group has signed a 22,916-square-foot office lease expansion at 1133 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan. The provider of automated brokerage services for securities trading is taking an additional 5,976 square feet on the 36th floor of the 45-story, 1.1 million-square-foot building. Tim Dempsey, Roger Griswold and Chris Hogan of CBRE represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Tom Bow, Rocco Romeo and Nora Caliban represented the landlord, The Durst Organization, on an internal basis.
LANGHORNE, PA. — Locally based brokerage firm Roddy Inc. has negotiated a 20,160-square-foot industrial lease at 181 Wheeler Court in Langhorne, a northeastern suburb of Philadelphia. The 100,055-square-foot building sits on 7.4 acres near I-95, the Pennsylvania Turnpike and the New Jersey Turnpike. Sean Durkin of Roddy Inc. represented the tenant, Vintage Imports, in the lease negotiations. Andrew McGhee of Colliers represented the landlord, an affiliate of Los Angeles-based Ares Management Corp.
NEW YORK CITY — Newmark has arranged an 11,232-square-foot office lease at 461 Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and completed in 1988, the building rises 28 stories and totals roughly 200,000 square feet. The lease term is 10 years, and the space spans the entire sixth floor. Brian Waterman, Scott Klau, David Waterman and Kevin Sullivan of Newmark represented the landlord, SL Green, in the lease negotiations. Ron LoRusso, Harley Dalton and Samantha Perlman of Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant, investment management firm Lingotto US.
PROVO, UTAH — Target has signed a deal to occupy 135,000 square feet of retail space at Provo Towne Centre in Provo. Brixton Capital is currently remodeling the shopping center. The Target will include CVS/pharmacy, Starbucks Coffee, Ulta Beauty, Target Optical and an adult beverage department. Greely, Colo.-based Roche Construction Mountain West is the general contractor for Target, while Big D Construction Mountain West is the general contractor for Provo Towne Centre.
WESTLAKE, TEXAS — ECI Software Solutions has signed a 25,468-square-foot office lease in the North Texas city of Westlake The space is located within The Terraces, an eight-building, 1.1 million-square-foot development that was originally constructed as a campus for IBM and underwent a $25 million repositioning in 2021. Jeff Eckert of JLL represented the landlord, Chicago-based Glenstar, in the lease negotiations. Stephen Rury of Colliers represented the tenant.