PFLUGERVILLE, TEXAS — Daiso has signed an 8,500-square-foot retail lease at Stone Hill Town Center in the northern Austin suburb of Pflugerville. The Japanese retailer of household and kitchenware products is backfilling a space formerly occupied by Kirkland’s Home and is targeting a fourth-quarter opening. Scott Espensen of Venture Commercial Real Estate represented Daiso in the lease negotiations. Houston-based NewQuest Properties owns Stone Hill Town Center.
NORWOOD, N.J. — Locally based brokerage firm Resource Realty has arranged a 71,870-square-foot industrial lease in the Northern New Jersey community of Norwood. Alfred Sanzari Enterprises owns the 111,300-square-foot building at 335 Chestnut St., which sits on six acres within Norwood Industrial Park and has 11 loading docks. Dan Whitehead of Resource Realty negotiated the deal on behalf of the tenant, footwear products manufacturer OrthoFeet Inc.
FREDERICK, MD. — St. John Properties has signed a lease extension and expansion with Precision for Medicine at Riverside Tech Park, a 70-acre business and research and development (R&D) property in Frederick. Precision for Medicine, a clinical research organization, has occupied space at the park since 2006. Precision for Medicine currently occupies 75,000 square feet at 8425 Precision Way. With the new agreement, the tenant will occupy an additional 41,040 square feet at 8440 Broadband Drive, a new 52,080-square-foot flex R&D building at the development, utilizing the building for office and laboratory space. St. John Properties recently completed construction at Riverside Tech Park, which comprises more than 750,000 square feet across 14 buildings. The development is located adjacent to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and is within a mile of the Frederick Municipal Airport.
NASHVILLE, TENN. — Video game developer Iron Galaxy Studios has signed a 25,000-square-foot office lease at 333 Commerce in Nashville. The company, which has studios in Chicago and Orlando, will be relocating from UBS Tower, where it occupied space on a temporary basis. Kevin Ziomek, Corey Siegrist and Jim Rose of JLL represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Amenities at the building include an 8,000-square-foot fitness center, outdoor courtyards and recently renovated lobby and common areas.
Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp. Welcomes New Tenants to Shopping Center in New York’s Westchester County
WESTCHESTER, N.Y. — New York City-based owner-operator Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp. has welcomed new tenants to Vernon Hills Village in Westchester County, located north of New York City. New tenants at Vernon Hills Village include Nike, Sephora, Lululemon, Pottery Barn, Ever/Body, Sweetgreen, Serafina and Starbucks. The center is now fully leased.
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.
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.
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.