HOUSTON — Levey Group has signed Victory Wine Group to a 23,000-square-foot lease at Northwest Place Industrial Park, Levey’s seven-acre business park in Houston’s Northwest submarket. Victory Wine is a wholesale wine distributor with locations in Houston, Dallas and Austin. The company’s newest location at Northwest Place features a storefront entrance and an air-conditioned warehouse. David Lester of Lester & Lester Realty Advisors represented Victory Wine Group in the lease transaction, and Carlton Anderson and Joseph Smith of CBRE represented Levey Group.
CHICAGO — Hot dog maker Vienna Beef has leased a 42,000-square-foot distribution center located at 2501 W. Fulton in Chicago’s Kinzie Corridor for its new headquarters. The company will relocate from 2501 N. Damen Ave. this quarter. All office and warehouse employees will make the move to the new building while manufacturing will remain at the company’s Southside facility. The new headquarters features a clear height of 16 feet, two loading docks, one drive-in door, parking for 50 cars and 8,000 square feet of office space. Dayton Street Partners acquired the property in September 2018 and recently completed several upgrades, including warehouse updates, a newly paved parking lot and LED lighting. Scott Duerkop and Dominic Carbonari of JLL represented Dayton Street in the lease with Vienna Beef. Chris Gary of NAI Hiffman represented the tenant. Vienna Beef was founded in Chicago in 1893.
NEW YORK CITY — Newmark Night Frank has negotiated a 10,008-square-foot office lease on behalf of collegiate sports marketing firm Learfield IMG College in the NoMad neighborhood of Manhattan. The space is located on the 17th floor of 183 Madison Avenue, a 275,413-square-foot office building close to the Grand Central and Penn Station transit stations. Andrew Sachs, Tim Gibson, Josh Gosin and Brittany Silver of NKF represented the landlord, APF Properties, in the lease negotiations. Jack Senske and Brian Given of Colliers International represented Learfield.
KENOSHA, WIS. — Trifinity Specialized Distribution, a logistics firm that serves major big-box stores and drug retailers, has signed a 250,000-square-foot industrial lease in Kenosha. Trifinity will occupy space at Zilber Industrial III, located at 5312 104th Ave. The recently constructed facility features 24 dock doors, three drive-in doors and convenient access to I-94. Trifinity will move into the facility by the end of this month. Founded a quarter century ago in Waukegan, Illinois, Trifinity currently employs approximately 50 workers, all of whom will relocate to the new facility. Thomas Boyle of Lee & Associates represented Trifinity in the lease transaction. Sergio Chapa and Michael Prost of Newmark Knight Frank, along with Michael Kleber of Zilber Property Group, represented the owner, Zilber Property Group.
CHICAGO — Temporary staffing firm TrueBlue has signed an 83,000-square-foot office lease at Chicago’s Old Post Office. The Tacoma, Wash.-based company currently maintains a local office at 860 W. Evergreen Ave. near Goose Island. TrueBlue is expected to move into the new office in early 2021. Jack Keenan of Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant in the lease transaction. Cushman & Wakefield will also handle project management for the new space. 601W Cos. is redeveloping the Old Post Office project. Other tenants who have signed leases at the property include Walgreens, Uber and Ferrara Candy.
NEW YORK CITY — Law firm Debevoise & Plimpton LLP has signed a 530,000-square-foot office lease for its new headquarters at The Spiral, a 2.8 million-square-foot office building currently under construction in the Hudson Yards district of Manhattan. The law firm will move from its current location at 919 Third Ave. into floors 40 through 52 of the 65-story tower under a 20-year lease agreement beginning in the second half of 2022. As a result of this latest lease signing, The Spiral is now 54 percent preleased. Other tenants include biopharmaceutical company Pfizer, which will occupy 800,000 square feet, and asset management company AllianceBernstein, which will occupy 189,000 square feet. The base of the building will also include 25,000 square feet of retail space. Designed by BIG Bjarke Ingels Group, construction of the building began in 2019 and is slated for completion in the second half of 2022. Tishman Speyer is the developer and owner of The Spiral.
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS — The Woodmont Co. has arranged a 14,713-square-foot retail lease for Daylight Golf, a new virtual golf and sports bar concept, at 2505 E. Grapevine Mills Circle in Grapevine. Set to open this summer, the Daylight Golf venue will be situated on two acres along the outer ring road of Grapevine Mills, a regional mall owned by Simon that attracts more than 10 million visitors annually. The venue will feature virtual golf simulators for courses around the world, an outdoor patio, full kitchen and bar and 40 TVs. The retail location was previously The Trail Dust and Love & War in Texas of Grapevine. Andy Anderson of Henry S. Miller Brokerage’s restaurant property group represented Daylight Golf in the lease deal. Derek Anthony, Grant Gary and David Adams of Woodmont represented the landlord, CJK Grapevine Properties.
ST. PETERS, MO. — Distribution Management Inc. has signed an industrial lease to occupy an entire 375,200-square-foot warehouse within Premier 370 Business Park in St. Peters. The building is situated at 1001 Premier Parkway, about 30 miles west of St. Louis. The landlord and developer, Duke Realty Corp., has now completed the lease-up of the five buildings within the 2.5 million-square-foot park. Art Leichner and Andrew Crites of Newmark Knight Frank along with Kevin McLaughlin and Dan Lesinski of Newmark Grubb Zimmer represented the tenant in the lease transaction. Geoff Orf of Colliers International served as the property’s listing agent. Distribution Management is an imaging supplies distributor and order fulfillment company.
BORDENTOWN, N.J. — Modell’s Sporting Goods has signed a 312,373-square-foot industrial lease in Bordentown, a southeastern suburb of Trenton. The retailer will house its logistics and distribution operations at the facility, which is located at 201 Old York Road. Bill Waxman, Mindy Lissner and Steven Beyda of CBRE worked with Brett Weinblatt of Compass Commercial to represent Modell’s in the lease negotiations. Matrix Development owns the facility.
BRANFORD , CT — O,R&L Commercial has negotiated a 12,030-square-foot biomed-tech office lease for dermatology company Azitra Inc. in Branford, an eastern suburb of New Haven. Azitra researches skin conditions and diseases and develops medical treatment products. Richard Guralnick of O,R&L represented Azitra in the lease negotiations. Guralnick also represented the undisclosed landlord.