OVERLAND PARK, KAN. — Adams Brown LLC, a CPA and advisory firm, has unveiled plans to relocate its Overland Park office to the Aspiria campus. The move is expected to take place in the fourth quarter of 2024. With numerous office locations throughout the central region, Adams Brown specializes in serving those in the agriculture, construction, manufacturing, dental and physician practice, local government and closely held businesses. The firm has operated in the Kansas City market since 2017 and has outgrown its current office space. Wichita-based Occidental Management owns and manages the Aspiria campus, which is the redevelopment of the former Sprint campus.
KANSAS CITY, MO. — Duck Donuts is opening a 1,500-square-foot shop at the Antioch Annex shopping center in Kansas City. The lease marks the Pennsylvania-based donut brand’s first location in Kansas City. Dan Sweeney of Curry Real Estate Services represented ownership on an internal basis. Duck Donuts plans to open in late February. The company began franchising in 2013 and now maintains more than 130 locally owned and operated shops across the country.
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — RegenLab USA, a manufacturer of equipment for regenerative cell therapies, has signed a 15,792-square-foot life sciences lease in Jersey City. RegenLab will relocate from the Brooklyn Army Terminal to the sixth floor of the building at 95 Greene St., which was originally constructed as a manufacturing facility for Colgate Palmolive, later this year. Dan Spero, Blake Goodman, John Cahill, Bob Ryan and Craig Eisenhardt of JLL represented the landlord, Thor Equities Group, and RegenLab in the lease negotiations.
DALLAS — Taylor Team Relocation, an Ohio-based copier shipping firm, has signed a 50,070-square-foot industrial and office lease at Marsh Business Park West, a 636,725-square-foot development in North Dallas. The space comprises 23,220 square feet of office space and a 26,850-square-foot warehouse. Hudson Sheets and Andrew Gilbert of Holt Lunsford Commercial represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Brian Pafford of Bradford Commercial Real Estate Services represented the landlord, an entity doing business as GKI Industrial Dallas LLC.
NEW YORK CITY — International law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP has signed a 765,000-square-foot office lease at 1345 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan. The lease term is 20 years, and the space spans 18 floors. Fisher Brothers, in partnership with J.P. Morgan, owns the building, which recently underwent a $120 million capital improvement program. Moshe Sukenik, Chris Mongeluzo and Brian Cohen of Newmark represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Howard Fiddle, Peter Turchin, Ben Josephs, Bill Lacovelli and Antony Dattoma of CBRE represented ownership in conjunction with Marc Packman, Clark Briffel, Charles Laginestra and Josh Fisher of Fisher Brothers.
NEW YORK CITY — Locally based landlord Olshan Properties has secured two new leases at 99 Hudson Street, a 17-story, 175,000-square-foot office building in Manhattan’s Tribeca area. Community College Campus Inc. will relocate to a 9,300-square-foot space on the 12th floor in November, and HR&A Advisors renewed its lease for 12,111 square feet on the third floor. Eric Cagner, Jon Franzel, Claire Koeppel and David Falk of Newmark represented Olshan Properties in the lease negotiations. Darell Handler and Kyle Galin of Handler Real Estate represented Community College Campus Inc., and Michal Mathias of Cushman & Wakefield represented HR&A Advisors.
The term “adaptive reuse” in real estate circles typically conjures images of repurposing old, obsolete commercial buildings. Meanwhile, academic buildings, administrative offices and other properties on college campuses rarely come to mind. But NAI has noted a growing need among higher learning institutions with vacant or underused assets, particularly as a result of growing online learning options, says Larry Gautier, senior vice president of NAI Miami | Fort Lauderdale. As a result, the brokerage is focused on finding solutions for schools. “NAI hasn’t historically been involved with higher institutions of learning — we’ve typically focused on conventional real estate transactions,” Gautier acknowledges. “But a few years ago, when students weren’t going in to class, colleges and universities were facing a challenge: what do you do with facilities — that were built for thousands of students — in a remote-learning setting? For many schools, remote learning is here to stay.” Options include leasing buildings to commercial users or entering a joint venture with, for example, an aerospace or engineering company for educational programs, he adds. Colleges that suddenly have vast unused parking lots could also enter into long-term leases with multifamily, office or mixed-use developers. “Our position is to help these schools create …
MARIETTA, GA. — Poag Development Group, a Memphis-based company formerly known as Poag Shopping Centers, has signed six new tenants to join the roster at The Avenue West Cobb, an open-air retail development in Marietta that houses 80 shops, restaurants and businesses. The new tenants include two brands that recently opened: fitness boutique StretchLab and Walk-On’s Sports Bistreaux, a Cajun restaurant chain co-owned by former New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees. The other four tenants — apparel retailer J. Crew Factory, dessert shop The Peach Cobbler Factory, medical primary care office Vera Whole Health and eyeglass retailer Warby Parker — are set to open the first half of the year. JLL is the property manager of The Avenue West Cobb, which locally based Cousins Properties opened in 2003.
HOUSTON — Locally based brokerage firm Finial Group has negotiated an 18,471-square-foot industrial lease at 6832 Bourgeois Road in Houston. The tenant, global energy services firm Interwell US, will occupy space within Four Seasons Business Park on the city’s northwest side. John Buckley and Jack Gaffney of Finial Group represented the undisclosed landlord in the lease negotiations.
NEW YORK CITY — MetLife has signed a 400,000-square-foot office lease extension at 200 Park Avenue in Manhattan, a deal that keeps the insurance giant in its headquarters and namesake building through 2038. MetLife consolidated its New York City offices at the 58-story building in 2017 by occupying the entire third and sixth floors and parts of the fourth and fifth floors. Patrick Murphy and Peyton Horn of Cushman & Wakefield represented MetLife in the lease negotiations. Megan Sheehan and Sam Brodsky of Tishman Speyer, which owns the building in partnership with Irvine Co., represented the landlord on an internal basis.