CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS — National fitness chain Crunch will open a $2.5 million, 25,000-square-foot gym in Corpus Christi. The facility will be located within the Carmel Village Shopping Center and will be open 24 hours a day beginning in fall 2019. The gym will offer more than 70 classes per week, a training area with indoor turf and tanning beds. Crunch also plans to open 21 more gyms throughout Central Texas over the next five years.
NORWOOD, MASS. — Organogenesis, which provides regenerative medicine for the surgical and sports medicine fields, has leased 43,850 square feet of lab and manufacturing space at 333 Providence Highway in the Boston suburb of Norwood. The single-story building consists of 86,450 square feet of office, lab and flex space. Rob Byrne, Paul Leone, Ryan Romano, George O’Connor and Philip Verre of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, The Davis Companies, in the lease negotiations. Landmark Real Estate Advisors represented the tenant.
PLANO, TEXAS — Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) will relocate its North Dallas office to an 8,454-square-foot space at 5201 Tennyson Parkway within Legacy Business Park in Plano. The 124,731-square-foot building was completed in 2015. John Wolf internally represented NKF, which is nearly doubling the size of it old office, in the lease negotiations.
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Coworking firm Spaces has signed an office lease to occupy the bottom two floors of Falls Tower in downtown Greenville. Falls Tower is a 184,000-square-foot office building under construction at 423 S. Main St. as part of Centennial American Properties’ Camperdown development. This marks Spaces’ first location in South Carolina. It will occupy 28,900 square feet, business solutions firm Elliott Davis will occupy 65,000 square feet and Bank of America will occupy 32,000 square feet at Falls Tower. At full buildout, Camperdown will offer office, residential, retail and hotel space, as well as an outdoor courtyard. Centennial American Properties expects to complete Falls Tower in mid-2020. Charles Gouch and Doug Webster of CBRE represented the landlord and developer in lease negotiations.
EL MONTE, CALIF. — Mutual Trading Co., a Japanese food, beverage and restaurant supply specialist, has leased 299,786 square feet of space at Goodman El Monte Logistics Center, an industrial facility under development at 4300 Shirley Ave. in El Monte. Goodman Group owns and manages the project, which will be a two-building, 1.2 million-square-foot tech-enabled logistics facility, with additional leasing opportunities available for up to 935,657 square feet. Slated for delivery fourth-quarter 2019, the property will feature 36-foot clear heights, minimum 185-foot concrete truck courts, 164 trailer stalls, 24/7 operations and site security, 147 dock doors, offices to suit, an ESFR sprinkler system, a LEED-certified shell, and close proximity to major freeways, airports and ports. Mutual Trading Co. is upgrading and consolidating its five previous locations into one by expanding to a bigger and more modern facility to support its U.S. growth. The company plans to move into the new space in November.
PHILADELPHIA — Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has signed a 54,000-square-foot office lease expansion at the Wanamaker building, a 1.4 million-square-foot office and retail property located in the Center City neighborhood of Philadelphia. Following this transaction, CHOP will occupy more than 300,000 square feet across six floors. The building owner, a partnership between Rubenstein Partners LP and Amerimar Enterprises Inc., is entering the final phase of a capital improvement program for the building, which was originally built in 1911 to house Wanamaker’s, one of America’s first department stores.
NEW YORK CITY — Shakespeare & Co., a chain of bookstores that was founded in 1983, will open its first store in Lower Manhattan when it assumes occupancy of a 2,300-square-foot space at 230 Vesey St. in January 2020. The store, which will be located within the 14-acre Brookfield Place complex on the Hudson River, will include a children’s book section and café. In addition, the store will host monthly book club events in its communal area.
CHICAGO — Brown Bag Seafood Co. will open its newest location in Willis Tower. The fast-casual seafood concept will be located in Catalog, the 300,000-square-foot dining and retail area at the base of the office tower. Catalog is currently under construction. Willis Tower is undergoing a $500 million renovation project, the biggest transformation in the building’s 46-year history. The first phase is expected to be open to the public in late 2019. Brown Bag Seafood Co. joins Convene, Urbanspace, Shake Shack, Sweetgreen, Starbucks and Market Creations. The Willis Tower location will be Brown Bag’s sixth restaurant. Willis Tower, formerly Sears Tower, is a 110-story skyscraper and is the tallest building in Chicago.
ORLANDO, FLA. — WeWork has signed a three-floor lease within downtown Orlando’s SunTrust Center. This is the first Orlando location for the New York-based coworking giant, which will occupy more than 70,000 square feet and accommodate more than 1,000 members who will have access to the onsite fitness center and conference center. The landlord, Piedmont Office Realty Trust, recently unveiled plans for upgrades at SunTrust Center, which is located at 200 Orange Ave. Renovations will include upgrading the lobby and adding a rooftop terrace and food hall. Terms of WeWork’s lease were not disclosed.
JOLIET, ILL. — Accuride Corp. has fully leased a 291,728-square-foot industrial building at Rock Run Business Park in Joliet. The speculative building was completed in the fourth quarter of 2018. It features a clear height of 36 feet, 38 dock doors, 234 parking spaces and build-to-suit office options. Accuride, a manufacturer of premium automotive parts, will consolidate two of its Chicago-area facilities in Batavia and Naperville. Mike Fonda, Chris Lydon, Chris Tecu and Brian Pomorski of Avison Young represented the developer, IDI Logistics, in the lease transaction. Mark Urbanowicz and Matt Burton of Mohr Partners represented the tenant.