NEW YORK CITY — Marketing and design firm Harper + Scott has signed a 17,456-square-foot office lease at 3 World Trade Center in Manhattan. The company currently operates out of 915 Broadway in the Flatiron District and will occupy a portion of the 40th floor of the building beginning in spring 2020. Jeff Fischer and Joe D’Apice of CBRE represented Harper + Scott in the lease negotiations. Jeremy Moss and Camille McGratty of Silverstein Properties represented the landlord, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Mary Ann Tighe, Ken Meyerson, Adam Foster, Evan Haskell, Steve Eynon, David Caperna and Rob Hill of CBRE assisted the Silverstein Properties team.
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NEW YORK CITY — American Friends of Hebrew University (AFHU) has signed an 11,000-square-foot office lease in Manhattan. AFHU will move into a portion of the 11th floor of 199 Water Street in June 2020. Lauren Davidson, Lindsay Ornstein and Samantha Schrenker of Transwestern represented AFHU in the lease negotiations. Brett Greenberg and Adam Rappaport represented the landlord, Jack Resnick & Sons, on an internal basis.
NEW YORK CITY — Equity firm General Atlantic Service Co. will expand its Manhattan headquarters lease to 93,500 square feet. The company currently occupies 62,340 square feet across the 32nd and 33rd floors of Park Avenue Plaza and will incorporate the entire 31,200-square-foot space of the 31st floor beginning in July 2020. Robert Martin of JLL represented General Atlantic in the lease negotiation. Marc Packman and Clark Briffel represented the landlord, Fisher Brothers, on an internal basis.
NEW YORK CITY — JLL has negotiated a 27,000-square-foot, 15-year office lease for public relations firm MWWPR in Manhattan. MWWPR will take occupy the entire third floor of the Nomad Tower, located at 1250 Broadway. Alexander Chudnoff, Benjamin Bass and Kristen Morgan of JLL represented MWWPR in the transaction. Paul Glickman, Mitchell Konsker, Diana Biasotti and Harley Dalton of JLL represented the landlord, Global Holdings Management Group, along with Craig Panzirer of Global Holdings.
NEW YORK — National self-storage investment firm Clutter has purchased The Storage Fox, a smaller self-storage firm based in New York, acquiring four-property self-storage portfolio in for $152 million. The acquisition included 5,240 storage units across four properties located at 5601 Foster Ave. in Brooklyn; 3046 Northern Blvd. in Long Island City; 1 Holland Ave. in White Plains; and 280 Fullerton Ave. in Yonkers. Combined, the properties comprise approximately 500,000 square feet with a rentable area of 320,000 square feet.
NEW YORK CITY — Warby Parker, a retailer of prescription glasses and sunglasses, has signed a 1,350-square-foot retail lease in Brooklyn. The two-story building is located on North 6th Street in the Williamsburg neighborhood, and the store is the retailer’s second location in the borough. The store is open now. Brian Katz and Scott Sher of Katz & Associates represented Warby Parker in the lease negotiations. Hank O’Donnell of Good Space represented the landlord, RedSky Capital LLC.
NEW YORK CITY — Inked Magazine, a tattoo lifestyle publication and a division of Quadra Media, has signed an 8,500-square-foot retail lease at 150 West 22nd St. in Manhattan. The new location will house a tattoo studio, art gallery, photography studio and retail store offering apparel, branded merchandise and art. The store will be Inked Magazine’s first retail property. Eli Someck of and Justin Myers of Redwood Property Group represented Inked Magazine in the lease negotiations. Someck also represented the landlord, M. Rapaport Co.
NEW YORK CITY — Lee & Associates has negotiated a 5,962-square-foot lease for WiredScore in Lower Manhattan. WiredScore has leased the entire second floor of 155 Wooster Street for three years, starting in September 2019. The company is more than doubling its office size from its previous location at 494 Broadway, where it occupied 2,700 square feet. Dennis Someck, Justin Myers and Conor Krup of Lee & Associates represented WiredScore in the negotiations. Someck and Myers also represented the landlord, Centurion Realty.
NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $1.6 million sale of a multifamily property in Brooklyn. The six-unit apartment building is located at 276 19th St.. Jakub Nowak, Matthew Resenzweig and Jesse Kay represented the seller, a private individual, in the transaction. The team also secured and represented the buyer, an undisclosed limited liability company.
NEW YORK CITY — JLL has brokered the $44.1 million sale of an industrial development site with three adjacent warehouses in Brooklyn. The property consists of three adjacent, single-story warehouses totaling 51,155 square feet and can support an additional 97,910 square feet of new development. Brendan Maddigan, Stephen Palmese, Winfield Clifford, Michael Mazzara and Ethan Stanton of JLL represented the seller, EcoRise Development LLC. The JLL team also represented the buyer, 473 President LLC.