ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. — Footwear and apparel retail giant Foot Locker Inc. has officially moved its corporate headquarters from New York City to the Tampa Bay city of St. Petersburg. The Feil Organization has signed the retailer to a 110,998-square-foot office lease at 570 Carillon Parkway, a Class A office building within Carillon Business Park. Feil recently renovated the office building’s lobby and common areas. Amenities at the five-story, 250,000-square-foot office building include a café and a fitness center. Lee Winter and Caleb Lewis of JLL represented Foot Locker in the lease negotiations. Barry Hanerfeld and Molly Molloy Catlett of CBRE represented Feil alongside in-house representative Andrew Wiener.
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Royal Tulip Investments Buys Newport Victoria Plaza Office Building in Costa Mesa, California
by Amy Works
COSTA MESA, CALIF. — Royal Tulip Investments has acquired Newport Victoria Plaza, an office building located at 2183 Fairview Road in Costa Mesa. A Beverly Hills, Calif.-based private seller sold the asset for $7.1 million, or $165 per square foot. The buyer plans to relocate its offices to the 43,250-square-foot building and lease out the remaining space. At the time of sale, the property was 35 percent occupied. Eric Smith of Voit Real Estate Services represented the buyer, while Anthony DeLorenzo, Sammy Demo and Bryan Johnson of CBRE represented the seller in the deal.
WAYNE, PA. — CBRE has negotiated a 32,600-square-foot office lease in Wayne, a western suburb of Philadelphia. The tenant is Comcast Cable Communications Management, and the space is located within the 200,000-square-foot, freshly renovated building at 1111 Old Eagle School Road. Scott Gabrielsen of CBRE represented the landlord, De Lage Landen Financial Services, in the lease negotiations. Jay Joyce of Savills represented Comcast.
NEW YORK CITY — The Legal Aid Society has signed a 29,467-square-foot office lease renewal and expansion on Staten Island. The expanded space includes suites on the second, third and eighth floors of the building at 60 Bay St. Christopher Mansfield, Craig Reicher, Greg Maurer-Hollaender and Julia Passantem of CBRE represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Bill Bergman internally represented the landlord, Muss Development.
The “flight to quality” trend has been ensconced in the embattled office sector for much of the post-pandemic era, and it’s showing little sign of slowing in the major markets of Texas. With overall tenant demand depressed in the aftermath of COVID-19, opportunities existed in droves for office users to upgrade their spaces and move into buildings with desirable amenities and vibrant surrounding neighborhoods. In doing so, these companies sought to incentivize their employees to come back to the office. Simultaneously, owners that invested in wellness features and activation programs for their properties sought to gain a leg up on the competition — and make tough conversations with lenders a bit more palatable. Whether or not those initiatives worked as intended undoubtedly varies greatly from company to company and owner to owner. But after multiple years of stagnant occupancy and rent growth, the targeting of seemingly superior buildings and locations has come to represent more than just opportunistic decision-making by tenants. It’s a movement that has created visible delineation among winning and losing submarkets, a strategy that embodies basic financial prudence and perhaps a necessary evil — assuming that office usage is finally starting to rebound in a meaningful …
PACE Loan Group Provides $22.4M C-PACE Refinancing for Creative Office Building in Los Angeles
by Amy Works
LOS ANGELES — Center Capital Partners and Abramson Investors have received a $22.4 million C-PACE loan from PACE Loan Group to refinance improvements completed on the borrowers’ newly constructed creative office development in Los Angeles. The C-PACE loan will amortize over 30 years, allowing payback for original investments during construction. The loan will be used to retroactively finance energy conservation improvements completed during the building’s construction, including building envelope, seismic retrofits, elevators, lighting, plumbing, HVAC, irrigation and stormwater mitigations. Located at 5237 W. Jefferson Blvd., the three-story, 72,000-square-foot property offers 9,700 square feet of of private terraces, a landscaped rooftop deck with seating and a barbecue area, 176 subterranean parking spaces and open-floor plans with wraparound windows.
WAYNE, PA. — CBRE has negotiated a 38,572-square-foot office headquarters lease in Wayne, a western suburb of Philadelphia. The tenant is iPipeline, a software provider for the financial services and life insurance industries, and the space is located within the 200,000-square-foot, freshly renovated building at 1111 Old Eagle School Road. Scott Gabrielsen of CBRE represented the landlord, De Lage Landen Financial Services, in the lease negotiations. Mitch Reading of Tactix Real Estate Advisors represented the tenant.
HOUSTON — Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP has signed a 52,000-square-foot office lease at Texas Tower, a 47-story skyscraper in downtown Houston. The global law firm will occupy space on two floors beginning in April 2026. Michael Anderson with Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, a partnership between Hines and Ivanhoe Cambridge, in the lease negotiations. Mark O’Donnell of Savills represented the tenant. The deal brings the 1.2 million-square-foot building to 99 percent occupancy.
NEW YORK CITY — RD Management has subleased 17,363 square feet of office space at 1745 Broadway in Midtown Manhattan. The space spans part of the seventh floor of the 26-story, 780,525-square-foot building. Richard Bernstein, Adam Ardise, Stephen Bellwood, Lei-Lani Keelan and Troy Elias of Cushman & Wakefield represented the sublandlord, Penguin Random House, in the negotiations. Ben Shapiro, Bill Levitsky and Matt Augarten of Newmark represented RD Management. Invesco Real Estate owns 1745 Broadway.
Barker Pacific Group, Kingsbarn Realty Capital Buy Mission Ridge Office Property in California for $32M
by Amy Works
MISSION VIEJO, CALIF. — Barker Pacific Group and Kingsbarn Realty Capital have acquired Mission Ridge, two four-story office buildings in Mission Viejo, from Barings for $32 million. Situated on 10.2 acres at 27101 and 27201 Puerta Real, Mission Ridge offers 233,531 square feet of multi-tenant office space. The property was originally built in the early 2000s and renovated in 2021. Renovations include new lobbies, refreshed restrooms, a new conference center and tenant lounge, and a refreshed fitness facility with showers and locker rooms. Sean Sullivan, Todd Tydlaska, Anthony DeLorenzo, Sammy Cemo, Bryan Johnson and Grant Goldman of CBRE Investment Properties represented the seller in the deal. CBRE’s Sullivan, Tydlaska, DeLorenzo, Mike Longo, Grant Goldman, Bryan Johnson and Melissa Moock handled the transaction for the buyer. Greg Grant and Pete Obradovich of CBRE secured acquisition financing for the buyer. BPG will manage the property, while the existing CBRE lease team was retained to handle leasing for the asset.