DALLAS — Three tenants — Legacy Knight, Commit Consulting and Mitsui Fudosan America — have signed office leases at Maple Terrace, a mixed-use development in Uptown Dallas. The square footages were not disclosed. Maple Terrace features a 157,000-square-foot office building, a 22-story apartment building and retail and restaurant space. Matt Schendle and Carrie Halbrooks of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, Mitsui Fudosan, which owns Maple Terrace in partnership with McNair Interests and Hines, in the lease negotiations. Grant Henson and Ryan Collier of Rockcap Co. represented Legacy Knight. Jakey Younger of Citadel Partners represented Commit Consulting.
ARLINGTON, TEXAS — Weitzman has negotiated a 9,122-square-foot restaurant lease in Arlington. The Original Roy Hutchins Barbeque will occupy the space at 1600 E. Copeland Road, a freestanding building that is located in the city’s entertainment district. Gretchen Miller of Weitzman represented the undisclosed landlord in the lease negotiations. Jordan Cluff and Turner Hosch of DuWest Realty represented the tenant.
PHILADELPHIA — FS Investments has signed a 117,000-square-foot office headquarters lease in the Schuylkill Yards mixed-use development in Philadelphia. The locally based alternative asset manager will relocate and expand from an 80,000-square-foot space at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, where it has been a tenant since 2015, to the mixed-use building at 3025 JFK Blvd. Tactix Real Estate Advisors represented FS Investments in the negotiations for the 16-year lease. The landlord, locally based REIT Brandywine Realty Trust, was self-represented.
ROSELLE, ILL. — Rieder NA, a manufacturer of concrete facades, has signed a 30,300-square-foot industrial lease at 20 Presidential Drive in Roselle within the North DuPage submarket. Jeff Janda and Mike Plumb of Lee & Associates of Illinois represented Tripar International Inc., which owns and occupies the rest of the 63,978-square-foot building. David Haigh of NAI Hiffman represented the tenant.
ATLANTA — Battery manufacturer Duracell has selected Science Square in Midtown Atlanta for its new global headquarters for research-and-development (R&D). Trammell Crow Co. and Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) jointly own the 18-acre Science Square development, which sits adjacent to Georgia Tech’s campus. Duracell plans to invest approximately $56 million into its new space at 101 Nerem St. NW and create 110 jobs. Civic and utility partners that helped Duracell in its site selection include the Georgia Department of Economic Development’s Global Commerce team, Invest Atlanta, Select Fulton, Metro Atlanta Chamber, Georgia Power and the University System of Georgia. Duracell has had a footprint in Georgia for years. The company currently has a manufacturing facility in LaGrange that has been in operation since 1980 and a logistics and distribution plant in Fairburn that began operations in 2020.
MIAMI — Digiacomo Group and JLL have negotiated the $25.8 million sale-leaseback of a cold storage facility located at 2323 N.W. 72nd Ave. in Miami. The seller, produce distributor Sun Belle LLC, will lease back the 82,261-square-foot property from the new owner, locally based Iconic Equities LLC, which specializes in industrial outdoor storage (IOS) and traditional industrial development. Built in 1978 and renovated in 2019, the cold storage facility sits on a 3.3-acre lot near Milam Dairy Road on the outskirts of the Miami International Airport campus. The property features 30.5-foot clear heights in the warehouse space, 24-foot clear heights in the cooler space, 11 dock-high doors and one grade-level door. Roger Zuniga of Digiacomo Group, along with Cody Brais, Luis Castillo and Taylor Osborne of JLL, represented Sun Belle in the sale-leaseback transaction. Additionally, Christopher Drew, Michael DiCosimo and Jovi Rodriguez of JLL arranged an undisclosed amount of acquisition financing for Iconic Equities.
NEW YORK CITY — New York Cancer & Blood Specialists (NYCBS) has signed a 35,469-square-foot office lease in Upper Manhattan. The oncology practice will occupy three full floors at Radio Tower, a mixed-use building in the Washington Heights neighborhood. Marty Cottingham, Michael Gottlieb, Patrick Steffens, Joel Wechsler and Alexis Odgers of Avison Young represented the landlord, Youngwoo & Associates, in the lease negotiations. Arthur Mirante II of Savills and Ari Malul of Schuckman Realty represented NYCBS.
NEW YORK CITY — SharkNinja will open a 14,296-square-foot office in Midtown Manhattan. The Massachusetts-based product design and technology company plans to occupy an entire floor at 41 Madison Avenue, a 42-story, 560,000-square-foot building. Steven Jacobson of Hopkinson Associates represented SharkNinja in the negotiations for the 10-year lease. Robert Steinman represented the landlord, Rudin, on an internal basis.
GREEN BAY, TWO RIVERS AND MADISON, WIS. — Starbucks has signed three new retail leases in Wisconsin. The tenant leased 2,460 square feet at 1555 W. Mason St. in Green Bay, 2,262 square feet at 1509 Washington St. in Two Rivers and 2,665 square feet at 1609 S. Park St. in Madison. Tony Colvin of Mid-America Real Estate represented Starbucks in all of the leases. The landlords included Military Avenue Partners, DCOLE TR LLC and 1609 S Park St LLC.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Signs 225,000 SF Lease to Anchor Elco Yards Development in Silicon Valley
REDWOOD CITY, CALIF. — The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), one of the largest philanthropies supporting biomedical research and AI-driven science, has signed a 225,000-square-foot life sciences lease in Silicon Valley. The company will fully occupy one of four buildings at IQHQ Inc.’s Elco Yards mixed-use development underway in Redwood City, roughly 25 miles south of San Francisco. Situated along the Caltrain corridor on the San Francisco Peninsula, Elco Yards is a 670,000-square-foot mixed-use development that comprises four buildings offering lab, office and retail space. The project, which began construction in 2021, will deliver additional phases between mid-2025 and 2026. CZI is expected to officially occupy its newly leased space in 2027. The deal brings Elco Yards to 30 percent preleased, according to IQHQ. Founded by Dr. Priscilla Chan and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in 2015, CZI’s purpose is to eradicate disease, improve education and address the needs of local communities, while building a more “inclusive, just and healthy future for everyone,” according to the company’s mission statement. “We are excited to continue to grow our roots in Redwood City with this new space for our biomedical research efforts,” says Marc Malandro, chief operating officer of CZI and the CZ Biohub …