PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA. — Norman’s Hallmark has opened a 7,280-square-foot store at The Metroplex in Plymouth Meeting, a northern suburb of Philadelphia. The store offers a complete line of Hallmark products, cards and Keepsake Ornaments, as well as apparel, accessories, books, stationery, games, home décor, candy and gourmet foods. Norman’s Hallmark currently operates 75 stores.
RALEIGH, N.C. — LS3P, an architectural, interior design and planning firm, has signed a 20,000-square-foot office lease at Smoky Hollow, a mixed-use development located at 421 N. Harrington St. in downtown Raleigh. The property features 225,000 square feet of Class A office space, as well as Hush and Dose Yoga + Smoothie Bar, restaurant concepts Madre and Midwood Smokehouse, New Anthem Brewery and Publix. LS3P plans to bring its current Raleigh office to Smoky Hollow, including 100 Raleigh-based employees, by April 2024. Kimarie Ankenbrand and Matt Winters of JLL represented LS3P in the lease deal. Kane Realty Corp. co-developed Smoky Hollow with Williams Realty + Building Co. and opened the first phase in spring 2020.
BLOOMINGTON, ILL. — TSR Concrete Coatings has signed a 40,000-square-foot industrial lease at 1601 General Electric Road, a 450,000-square-foot building in Bloomington. TSR is a subsidiary of ReVamp, a company that installs residential floor coatings and vinyl fences. TSR relocated to this larger facility as part of its expansion with ReVamp Fencing. Meghan O’Neal-Rogozinski of AXIS 360 Commercial Real Estate Specialists represented the tenant, while John Cleary of Marquette Realty & Consulting represented the undisclosed landlord.
ATLANTA — Granite Properties has signed five leases between September and November at three of its Atlanta office buildings for a total of 198,000 square feet. The deals included three leases at 100 City View in the Cumberland/Galleria submarket for Murata Electronics North America (50,019 square feet), Insurica (4,097 square feet) and Prairie Capital Advisors (3,598 square feet). Jennifer Koontz, Frances Land Klee, Sam Neel of Pope & Land represented Granite in the lease negotiations at 100 City View. The other two deals included Womble Bond Dickinson’s 27,733-square-foot lease at Midtown Union and an expansion for Amwins at 3630 Peachtree in Buckhead, going from 94,000 square feet to nearly 114,000 square feet. Brooke Dewey and Adam Viente of JLL represented Granite in the Womble Bond Dickinson lease, and Greg Frankum, Matt Spickard and Ansley Chenault of Transwestern represented the firm in the Amwins lease. Tenant representatives for the five deals included Mass Realty, CoRErep, Newmark, CBRE and Ackerman & Co.
ELK GROVE VILLAGE, ILL. — Logisteed America Inc., a provider of transportation and logistics services, has renewed its 106,100-square-foot industrial lease at 2551-2561 Allan Drive in the Chicago suburb of Elk Grove Village. Kenneth Franzese and John Cassidy of Lee & Associates represented the tenant. Jonathan Kohn and Chris Volkert of Colliers represented the landlord, LaSalle Investment Management.
CHICAGO — MonoSol has signed a 35,021-square-foot lease for a new innovation and technical center located within Fulton Labs in Chicago’s Fulton Market. Headquartered in Northwest Indiana, MonoSol is a sustainable material science company that is a division of Tokyo-based Kuraray Group. The company is best known for its water-soluble, biodegradable films that are used to make laundry and dishwashing detergent packets for many household brands. When open in mid-2024, MonoSol’s innovation center will occupy the last full floor at 1375 West Fulton. The deal brings the 300,000-square-foot life sciences building to about 98 percent leased. Dan Lyne and Kelsey Scheive of CBRE represented ownership, Trammell Crow Co. Andrew Urban and David Burden of Colliers represented the tenant.
ROUND ROCK, TEXAS — Newmark has secured a 44,648-square-foot industrial lease at Green Hill Business Park in the northern Austin suburb of Round Rock. Richard Hoyt, Chip Wiser and Brian Cheek of Newmark represented the tenant, packaging and crating services provider TransPak Inc., in the lease negotiations. Stream Realty Partners represented the landlord, Mississippi-based EastGroup Properties.
HOUSTON — Invacor Solutions, which provides pipeline services to the energy industry, has signed a 33,525-square-foot industrial lease in northwest Houston. According to LoopNet Inc., the single-tenant property at 6230 Bingle Road was built in 1979 and features 20-foot clear heights, four loading docks, 34 parking spaces and 8,190 square feet of office space. Michael Keegan and Andrew Laycock of Partners Real Estate represented the landlord, ValvTechnologies Inc., in the lease negotiations. Sarah Teel with MSL Investments represented the tenant.
SAVANNAH, GA. — Automotive parts supplier Kyungshin America Corp. (KAC) has signed a 136,000-square-foot lease at Savannah Gateway Industrial Hub (SGIH) in Georgia. Scheduled to open in February 2024, the facility will import and distribute automotive components to Hyundai Motor Group’s new, $7.5 billion electric vehicle plant underway near Port of Savannah and throughout the Southeast. SGIH, which comprises a total 2,600 acres, is a public-private partnership between the Effingham County Industrial Development Authority (ECIDA) and Broe Real Estate Group, the real estate affiliate of The Broe Group.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — “Eatertainment” operator State of Play plans to open an 8,546-square-foot Flight Club darts venue in Washington, D.C. Scheduled to open summer 2024 and marking the 13th location for the brand, Flight Club D.C. will be situated at 641 New York Ave. NW within 655 New York, a 756,000-square-foot mixed-use development by Brookfield Properties. Other tenants at 655 New York, which features 79,000 square feet of retail space, include Rumi’s Kitchen, Capital Burger, Pearl’s Bagels, Kinship, Metier and Compass Coffee.