HONOLULU — GGP has signed leases with four new tenants at Ala Moana Center, a 2.4 million-square-foot open-air center located in Honolulu. Kaikoa Gallery, NARA and POP MART are set to open this month. Kids City Adventure will join previously announced tenants BB Wellness and Molly Tea, which are all scheduled to open in October. Recently opened tenants at the center include Ali‘i Coffee Company, gorjana, Lume Harmony, MINISO and Studs. Crocs will also reopen at the center in September, and Tiffany & Co. will relocate temporarily while its permanent location undergoes renovation. Originally opened in 1959, Ala Moana Center features more than 350 stores and restaurants and is anchored by Bloomingdale’s, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Macy’s and Target.
PIKE COUNTY, OHIO — OpenAI, the artificial intelligence (AI) platform best known for ChatGPT, has signed a 20-year lease agreement to be the customer at the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus, an AI data center redevelopment of the decommissioned Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Pike County, located in southern Ohio’s Appalachian region. The size and cost of the campus has not been released, but The New York Times reports that it will be among the world’s largest data centers and that the build-out could cost as much as $500 billion. SB Energy, a data center and power infrastructure company backed by Tokyo-based SoftBank Group Corp., will build, own and operate the campus. Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), a hardware manufacturer of semiconductors and networking systems for AI data centers, will provide the full build-out at PORTS-Pike Technology Campus using its DSX AI factory platform — encompassing all aspects typical to an AI-ready data center, including GPUs (graphics processing units), CPUs (central processing units), servers and infrastructure software. Nvidia has secured land, power and shell (LPS) rights at the Pike County project through a partnership with SB Energy. Nvidia will immediately invest $1.5 billion in SB Energy to support the project’s build-out. SB Energy and …
FRISCO, TEXAS — Base Power Inc. has signed a 32,375-square-foot industrial lease in Frisco. The provider of home batteries is taking space within Building 3 at Frisco Trade Center. Brett Lewis, Taylor Stell and George Tanghongs of Lee & Associates represented the locally based landlord, Dalfen Industrial, in the lease negotiations. The tenant representative was not disclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — Versant Media Group (Nasdaq: VSNT) has signed a 84,509-square-foot office lease expansion and 18-year extension in Midtown Manhattan. The owner of networks like MS NOW, CNBC, USA Network, Golf Channel, E!, SYFY and Oxygen now occupies 249,054 square feet across six floors at 229 West 43rd Street, a 15-story building that was constructed in 1912 as the home of The New York Times. CBRE represented Versant in the lease negotiations. The landlord, Columbia Property Trust, was self-represented.
READING, MASS. — Trader Joe’s will open a new grocery store in Reading, a northern suburb of Boston, later this year. The square footage was not disclosed. The store will be located within The Crossing at Walkers Brook, a 480,000-square-foot shopping center that is also home to Jordan’s Furniture, Home Depot, Golf Galaxy, The Paper Store and Starbucks. Chris Mearn of District Real Estate Advisors represented Trader Joe’s in the lease negotiations. Regional owner-operator Wilder Cos. owns The Crossing at Walkers Brook.
CenterCal Properties Signs Leases with Five New Tenants at The Village at Meridian Near Boise, Idaho
MERIDIAN, IDAHO — CenterCal Properties has signed leases with five new tenants at the second phase of The Village at Meridian, an 80,000-square-foot commercial property that is under construction roughly 10 miles west of downtown Boise. The new tenants are gastropub Culinary Dropout (7,000 square feet); fine-dining restaurant The Capital Grille; cookware and housewares retailer Williams Sonoma (5,550 square feet); Pottery Barn; and modern furniture brand 7th Avenue. Other tenants at the property will include Vuori, Alo, Kendra Scott, Tecovas, Gorjana, [solidcore] and Tempur-Pedic, along with Flower Child and Paris Baguette. Phase II, which is already fully leased and will span six buildings, is an expansion of The Village at Meridian, a 1 million-square-foot mixed-use development. Phase II is anticipated for completion in February 2027.
DALLAS — Ahmad, Zavitsanos & Mensing PLLC has signed a 17,043-square-foot office lease in downtown Dallas. The space is located within Trammell Crow Center, a 50-story, newly renovated development at 2001 Ross Ave. Doug Jones, Marissa Parkin and Chase Lopez of Stream Realty Partners represented the landlord, Regent Properties, in the lease negotiations.
CUMMING, GA. — The Cheesecake Factory has signed a 6,500-square-foot lease at The Collection at Forsyth, a 565,000-square-foot mixed-use lifestyle center located in Cumming, a north Atlanta suburb in Forsyth County. The new restaurant opened on July 21 and has created more than 200 local jobs, according to the company’s press release. Sherri Wilson of Partners Real Estate represented the landlord, CTO Realty Growth Inc., in the lease negotiations. Other recent tenant additions at The Collection at Forsyth include Sephora, Warby Parky, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Georgia Properties, Kimley-Horn, Build-A-Bear Workshop, BODYROK, Rocket Fizz and The Picklr. Another new tenant coming soon is global lifestyle retailer Miniso, which is currently under construction and planning to open in September.
WEST CHICAGO, ILL. — CoreCentric Solutions has signed a 286,622-square-foot industrial lease at 1717 Harvester Road in West Chicago. The long-term lease brings the 465,950-square-foot manufacturing facility to full occupancy. David Conroy, Mark Wilson, Jordan Kwiecinski and Daniel Cawley of Cawley Commercial Real Estate represented the landlord, Plymouth Industrial REIT. Mike Senner of Colliers represented the tenant. The leased property offers 4,000 amps of heavy power, 15,579 square feet of office space, 14 interior docks and one drive-in doors. The lease is scheduled to commence in October.
WILMER, TEXAS — Logistics Plus has signed a 744,452-square-foot industrial lease in the southern Dallas suburb of Wilmer. The Pennsylvania-based provider of freight and fulfillment services will occupy the entirety of Building 2 within Southport Logistics Center, an approximately 1.5 million-square-foot development. Building 2 features 123 dock doors, three drive-in doors and 4,647 square feet of speculative office space. Kurt Griffin and Nathan Orbin of JLL represented the landlord, a joint venture between Bandera Ventures and Invesco Real Estate, in the lease negotiations.