PHILADELPHIA — Flexible office space provider Mindspace will open a 42,000-square-foot space at the Wanamaker Office Building in Philadelphia. Mindspace expects to open the space, which will include tenant lounges and an event area, in the third quarter. The 1.4 million-square-foot Wanamaker building is located adjacent to City Hall in Center City Philadelphia. A partnership of The Rubenstein Partners and Amerimar Enterprises Inc. owns the building.
NEW YORK CITY — Colliers International has negotiated a 27,681-square-foot industrial lease for hair care brand Prose in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn. Prose will move its manufacturing operations to the new space at Liberty View Industrial Plaza, located at 850 Third Ave. The building comprises 350,000 square feet of office space, and 500,000 square feet of industrial space. Marcus Rayner of Colliers represented Prose in the lease negotiations. Partnership of Madison Capital and Salmar Properties owns the building.
ROSEMONT, ILL. — Hofseth International has relocated to a larger 4,000-square-foot office space at 6300 N. River Road in Rosemont. Steven Goldstein of Jameson Commercial represented the tenant in the lease transaction. Goldstein also subleased Hofseth’s former 2,200-square-foot office at 5509 N. Cumberland Ave. in the O’Hare submarket. Hofseth is a producer, processor and marketer of seafood such as Norwegian Alaskan salmon.
NEW YORK CITY — KW Commercial, the commercial real estate arm of Keller Williams Realty, has negotiated a new master lease for the 100-room Z Hotel in Long Island City in Queens. Sonder, a flexible stay hospitality startup, will lease and operate the entire hotel for a term of seven to 17 years. The property is located at 11-01 43rd Ave and includes 45,000 square feet of retail, office and amenity space. Julia Maksimova of KW Commercial represented the landlord, Merchants Hospitality. David Behin and J.D. Cohen of Newmark Knight Frank represented Sonder.
PITTSBURGH — Two new retail tenants have signed leases totaling 23,243 square feet in the retail space at The Cork Factory, a 297-unit luxury multifamily property in Pittsburgh. Southern fast casual restaurant Coop De Ville leased 11,947 square feet, which is expected to open this spring. Health and fitness franchise TruFusion leased 11,296 square feet, which is expected to open in early 2021. The two leases bring the 43,000-square-foot retail space on the ground floor of The Cork Factory up to full occupancy, Other tenants include Cioppino Restaurant & Cigar Bar, Italian restaurant Osteria 2350 and fitness concept Meraki Studio.
WEST HAVEN, CONN. — Arnold Peck’s Commercial World (APCW) has negotiated a 10,000-square-foot office lease in West Haven, a southwestern suburb of New Haven. Healthcare provider Cornell Scott Hill Health Center will occupy the freestanding building located at 410 Campbell Ave. on a 10-year lease. Mark Glassman of APCW represented Cornell Scott in the lease negotiations. Joel Nessno of Press/Cuozzo Commercial Services represented the landlord, Plimpton LLC.
NEW YORK CITY — Tri State Commercial has secured a 3,600-square-foot office lease in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Home care company Care Skills Home will occupy space on the third floor of an office building located at 1125 Fulton St. on a five-year lease beginning in March. Avi Akiva led a Tri State team that represented Care Skills Home in the lease negotiations. Akiva also represented the landlord, The Bawabeh Group.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Montessori-inspired school Rock and Roll Daycare has signed a 3,500-square-foot retail lease in Cambridge. The school will be located in the retail space at The Rand, a 19-unit condominium adjacent to the Porter Square MBTA Red Line station at 1975 Massachusetts Ave. The school will provide high-end childcare to infant, toddler and preschool-aged children with a music-focused curriculum. Urban Spaces LLC completed The Rand using modular construction in 2017 and Prellwitz Chilinski Associates served as the architect of the project. A partnership of Urban Spaces LLC and StoneRiver Properties is the landlord of The Rand.
WACO, TEXAS — Dallas-based sports entertainment company Topgolf has signed a lease at Cottonwood Creek Market, a 285,000-square-foot entertainment destination in Waco that is scheduled to open this winter. Topgolf joins Cinemark, which will open a 14-screen theater, as the second of three entertainment anchors at Cottonwood Creek Market. Houston-based developer NewQuest Properties commenced site work on the project last summer, and is in talks with a bowling and dining concept to potentially serve as the third anchor. Steve Greenberg of The Retail Connection represented Topgolf in the lease negotiations. Steve Alvis represented NewQuest Properties on an internal basis.
TEXAS CITY, TEXAS — Lee & Associates has negotiated a 50,000-square-foot industrial lease at 10000 Emmett F. Lowry Expressway in Texas City, located southeast of Houston near Galveston. Frank Blackwood and John Gazzola of Lee & Associates represented the tenant, Odyssey 2020 Academy Inc., in the lease negotiations. The name and representative of the landlord were not disclosed.
