MINNEAPOLIS — Briggs and Morgan, a full-service law firm, has signed a 93,000-square-foot lease renewal at IDS Center in downtown Minneapolis. The firm plans to fully renovate its space, which is located on floors 22 through 25. Plans call for a more modern, open and collaborative space. Briggs and Morgan employs 250 people. Paul Donovan, Jaclyn May, Jeremy Striffler, Jennifer Stumm and Sherry Cushman of Cushman & Wakefield brokered the lease transaction. MP Johnson Construction Inc. and NELSON make up the project team. Completion is slated for mid-2020.
CHICAGO — InnerWorkings Inc. has signed a 41,443-square-foot lease for its global headquarters to be located at 203 N. LaSalle St. in downtown Chicago. InnerWorkings is a marketing execution firm serving Fortune 1000 brands across a range of industries. The company is relocating from 600 W. Chicago Ave. in the River North submarket. Jeff Dowdell, Eric Myers and William Briggs of Transwestern Commercial Services provided office leasing services on behalf of the landlord, a publicly traded international holding company. Brandon Glick, Chris Bargowski and Sam Picchiotti of Mohr Partners Inc. represented the tenant. The 625,000-square-foot office property is now 71 percent leased.
ROCKVILLE, MD. — Law firm Stein Sperling Bennett de Jong Driscoll has signed a 42,206-square-feet lease at the Tower Building, situated at 1101 Wootton Parkway in Rockville. The firm currently occupies space across five offices throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. The firm expects to occupy Tower Building by the third quarter of 2020, a move that is expected to raise occupancy of the 12-story, 290,000-square-foot office building to 86 percent. The law firm employs more than 130 workers, most of whom are expected to relocate to Rockville. Marc Balamaci and Scott Mendelson of Edge Commercial Real Estate represented the tenant, and Kevin McGloon and Peter Rosan of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, The Tower Cos., in the lease transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Workspace provider Knotel has signed an 11,176-square-foot lease in the Midtown East section of Manhattan. Knotel will occupy the entire 6th and 11th floors at 369 Lexington Ave., a 28-story, 175,000-square-foot office tower. Aziz Kabbaj and Robbert Chattah of Sitt Ventures represented Knotel in the transaction. The landlord, Triangle Assets, was represented in-house. Knotel, which was founded in 2016, designs, builds and operates custom spaces for companies of 50 employees or more.
HOUSTON — The Finial Group has negotiated a 15,750-square-foot industrial lease at 15250 West Drive in Houston. Doc Perrier and Jason Gibbons of Finial Group represented the landlord in the lease negotiations. The tenant is food supplier Las Delicias Import LLC.
ST. CHARLES, MO. — Several new retail tenants are slated to open this spring and summer at The Streets of St. Charles, a mixed-use community near St. Louis owned and managed by Cullinan Properties Ltd. Cherry Blow Dry Bar opened on Wednesday, March 6. Next on the list is Play Street Museum, an interactive play environment set to open on Monday, March 25. Also scheduled to open this spring and summer are Narwhal’s Crafted, a frozen cocktail bar, and YogaSix. Cullinan Properties previously announced the addition of Elekta as the newest office tenant. The Streets of St. Charles is a 27-acre mixed-use development.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Holt Lunsford Commercial has negotiated an industrial lease at Meachum Crossing, a 183,832-square-foot industrial facility in Fort Worth. Meachum Crossing features 30- to 32-foot clear heights, 31 overhead dock doors, 22 trailer parking spaces and an ESFR sprinkler system. Donnie Rohde and Matt Carthey of Holt Lunsford represented the landlord, Mapletree, in the lease negotiations. Bob Scully of CBRE represented the tenant, ITW Food Equipment.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Team ProMark, a supplier of licensed sports merchandise, has relocated its headquarters from Colorado to Fort Worth, signing a 24,506-square foot office/warehouse lease at 5001 North Freeway. Nick Talley of Bradford Commercial Real Estate Services represented Team ProMark, which will occupy roughly half the space at the property for seven years, in the lease negotiations. Jeff Givens and Todd Hawpe of Transwestern represented the landlord, 5001 North Freeway LLC.
NEW YORK CITY — Marketing technology company Contently has signed a 13,146-square-foot lease at 44 Wall St. in Manhattan’s financial district. The company will relocate its headquarters from 598 Broadway to a portion of the 13th floor of the 24-story tower. Contently is the content marketing solution for a number of brands, including American Express, Bayer, Dell Technologies, JPMorgan Chase, Marriott and Walmart. Contently was represented in the transaction by Freddie Fackelmayer, Anthony Dattoma, and Zach Breit of CBRE. The building owner, EQ Office, was represented by Zachary Price, Michael Rizzo, Jeffrey Fischer and Caroline Merck of CBRE.
NEW BERN, N.C. — Columbia Development has signed leases with HomeGoods and Rack Room Shoes to anchor Phase II of New Bern Marketplace in New Bern, a town situated along the Neuse River near the Atlantic Ocean. HomeGoods will occupy 22,000 square feet of space while Rack Room Shoes will occupy 6,139 square feet. Phase II is underway with both stores expected to open in early 2020. Columbia Development is developing the 330,000-square-foot neighborhood center and recently opened the nation’s largest Harris Teeter, as well as other tenants including Academy Sports + Outdoors, Hobby Lobby, Ross Dress for Less and Ulta Beauty. Located at the intersection of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and South Glenburnie Road, New Bern Marketplace is 90 percent leased. The Shopping Center Group represented the landlord in the lease transactions.