Leasing Activity

RALEIGH, N.C. — CBRE | Raleigh has arranged leases with the first tenants at Crabtree Terrace, a 173,000-square-foot office building under construction in Raleigh. Coworking company Spaces signed a lease for 31,794 square feet of office space, Longleaf Law Partners signed a lease for 8,000 square feet and a high-end, large-format restaurant signed a lease for 12,500 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Chapel Hill-based East West Partners is developing Crabtree Terrace, which will include 145,000 square feet of office space and 28,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space upon completion in the fourth quarter of 2019. The building will be situated adjacent to a luxury hotel and conference center that will house a rooftop bar and full-service restaurant. Architecture firms Gensler and Kimley-Horn are designing the building, and Brasfield & Gorrie is the general contractor. Citizens Bank is providing construction financing for the project, and Northridge Capital LLC and SilverCap Partners are providing equity financing.

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FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Lee & Associates has negotiated a 65,814-square-foot industrial lease at 4395 Diplomacy Road in east Fort Worth. Adam Graham and Mark Graybill of Lee & Associates represented the landlord, ML Realty Partners, in the lease negotiations. Matt Carthey of Holt Lunsford Commercial represented the tenant, Factory Blue.

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BARTLETT, ILL. — Clarke Packing & Crating Co. has signed a 108,163-square-foot industrial lease at Brewster Creek Business Park in Bartlett. Clarke will occupy space within a new 186,000-square-foot facility that features a clear height of 32 feet, 35 exterior docks and parking for 224 cars. Clarke currently leases 63,000 square feet at 4150 Chandler Drive in Hanover Park. Elise Couston, Adam Marshall and Mark Deady of Newmark Knight Frank represented the owner, Barings Real Estate, in the lease transaction. George Pappas of Hartford Associates represented the tenant.

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SOUTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Cushman & Wakefield has secured a 450,000-square-foot, full-building lease for moving services provider Clutter at 1065 Cranbury South River Road in South Brunswick. The newly constructed facility is a speculative development by IDI Logistics. Andrew Stypa and Daniel Badenhausen of Cushman & Wakefield represented Clutter in the transaction. Cushman & Wakefield’s Jason Goldman, Andrew Siemsen and Marc Petrella represented IDI Logistics. Clutter will move into the facility by the end of Summer 2018.

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ATLANTA — Avison Young has arranged a 41,288-square-foot sublease for Instacart, an on-demand grocery service, at Ponce City Market in Atlanta. Phil Barry, Hilton Barry, Steve Cook and Jack Kerrigan of Avison Young represented the sub-landlord, Athenahealth, in the five-year lease transaction. Sam Pruitt of Site Selection Group, along with Michelle Galvani and Shan Morris of Wildmor Advisors, represented Instacart. The creative loft office space is located on the eighth floor and includes an outdoor deck area. The 2 million-square-foot Ponce City Market is an adaptive reuse of the 1920s-era Sears, Roebuck & Co. building on Ponce de Leon Avenue, which is located along the Atlanta Beltline’s Eastside Trail in Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward district. In addition to creative office space, the mixed-use development includes a food hall, loft apartments and retail space. Founded in 2012, San Francisco-based Instacart operates as a same-day grocery delivery service. Customers select groceries through a web application from various retailers and the order is delivered by a personal shopper.

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CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO — CBRE has negotiated a lease renewal for 277,424 square feet of warehouse and distribution space within Finsa Industrial Park in Ciudad Juarez, the sister city of El Paso. Anthony Mash of CBRE represented the tenant, Intermatic, a producer of energy control devices, in the lease negotiations. The landlord, Finsa – Cibanvo SA Institucion DE Banca, was self-represented. The new lease term is seven years.

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BENTON, ARK. — GBT Realty Corp. has signed six new tenants to The Shoppes of Benton, a 170,000-square-foot shopping center in Benton, roughly 25 miles southwest of Little Rock. Fast-casual restaurant chains Red Robin and Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers just opened at the center, and Flowers + Home, Avalon Nails, Mathnasium and Hotworx opened this summer. The new retailers are joining existing tenants including Hobby Lobby, T.J. Maxx/HomeGoods, PetSmart, Ulta Beauty, Tuesday Morning, Rack Room Shoe’s, Maurices’s and Texas Road House. With the new storefronts, The Shoppes of Benton is 97 percent leased.

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CHICAGO — Iterum Therapeutics US Limited, a subsidiary of Iterum Therapeutics, has signed a 10,318-square-foot office lease at 200 S. Wacker Drive in Chicago to relocate its American headquarters. The Ireland-based pharmaceutical company develops anti-infectives aimed at combatting multi-drug resistant pathogens. The U.S. subsidiary of Iterum Therapeutics is relocating from 200 W. Monroe St. Geoffrey Kasselman, Matthew Whipple, Bob Chodos and Steve Levitas of Newmark Knight Frank represented the tenant in the lease transaction. John Hancock Real Estate owns the building.

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HOUSTON — Home furnishings and appliances retailer Conn’s HomePlus has signed a 656,658-square-foot lease to be the sole occupant of Central Green Distribution Center in north Houston. Liberty Property Trust is the owner of the center, which is situated on 36 acres near George Bush Intercontinental Airport. Building features include 36-foot clear heights, 133 dock doors and a 500-foot building depth. Rob Stillwell and Chris Malherbe of NKF Capital Markets represented Conn’s in the lease negotiations. Conn’s is based in The Woodlands, a master-planned community located north of Houston.

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GARLAND, TEXAS — Quest USA Inc., an affiliate of Canadian window producer Quest Window Systems, will open a 329,000-square-foot manufacturing and distribution facility in Garland, a northeastern suburb of Dallas. The facility will be located within Jupiter Miller Business Park, an 800,000-square-foot project at the site of the former Raytheon campus. The move is expected to create more than 320 new jobs. The date by which the facility is expected to be operational was not disclosed.

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