DALLAS — Insurance giant Chubb has signed a 50,000-square-foot office lease at Lincoln Centre, a 1.6 million-square-foot campus in North Dallas. Lincoln Centre recently underwent a multimillion-dollar renovation, and the property now offers amenities such as a food hall, lobby lounge, coffee bar, fitness center, conference facilities, a working mothers’ room and a wine lounge. Matt Schendle, Clint Madison and Zach Bean of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, Nuveen Real Estate, in the lease negotiations.
HESPERIA, CALIF. — Progressive Real Estate Partners has arranged a 5,020-square-foot lease for West Coast Dental (WCD) at Hesperia Square in Hesperia, a city in San Bernardino County. WCD has signed a 10-year lease at the property, which Vallarta and Dollar Tree anchor. Albert Lopez of Progressive represented the landlord in the negotiations. Chris Beauchamp of Lee & Associates represented the tenant.
ROCKY HILL, CONN. — Michael Baker Engineering Inc. has signed a 9,158-square-foot office lease at 500 Enterprise Drive in Rocky Hill, a southern suburb of Hartford. The building is located within the 506,500-square-foot Corporate Ridge development, which offers a fitness center, game room, outdoor gathering areas and a full-service cafeteria. Bob Kelly and Jon Putnam of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, KS Partners LLC, in the lease negotiations. The representative of the tenant was not disclosed.
CHICAGO — Antares Capital has signed an 87,586-square-foot office lease for floors 41 through 43 at 320 South Canal in Chicago. Riverside Investment and Development and Convexity Properties co-developed the new 52-story office tower, which was completed in December 2022. Antares is a provider of financing to private equity-backed borrowers and a credit manager with more than $60 billion of capital under management. The firm is relocating from 500 West Monroe where it occupies 69,646 square feet. Designed by Goettsch Partners, 320 South Canal is situated immediately south of Union Station and is now 68 percent leased. Additional tenants include BMO, Skadden Arps, National Futures Association and Ullico. The Green, a 1.5-acre, privately owned outdoor park, sits on the west side of the building. Michael Sessa, Dan Maslauski and Jack Deroche of Cushman & Wakefield represented Antares in the lease. Christy Domin and Drew Neiman represented Riverside on an internal basis.
OVERLAND PARK, KAN. — SomeraRoad Inc. has welcomed the second tenant at Summit52, the recently renovated 300,000-square-foot office building in Overland Park that formerly served as the headquarters of Swiss Re. Blue Chair LLC and its affiliated companies will occupy 21,000 square feet on the third floor of the south building. Blue Chair, a management and holding company for Gragg Advertising, Lever 1 and IntegriShield, plans to move into its new space in the second quarter. Existing tenant IAC signed a lease for 60,000 square feet last year. Evan Warwick of Colliers represented Blue Chair in the lease. Ross Simpson and RC Jensen of Colliers represented SomeraRoad, which acquired the property in summer 2020.
Once bypassed by national developers and investors for larger, metropolitan cities like Miami, the real estate community is now realizing what locals have known for years: Tampa is trending. Tampa Bay’s recognition as one of the country’s top places to live has trickled into the region’s office market, which as of the first quarter of the year, has continued to reap the benefits. While some credit the Tom Brady effect to Tampa’s rise into the national spotlight, the Tampa Bay region is seeing growing demand in other economic sectors beyond sports, including housing, business and leisure. In fact, Time Magazine just featured Tampa as one of only four U.S. cities in its highly coveted 2023 list of the “World’s Greatest Places.” Flurry of activity to start 2023 For the first time in five quarters, the Tampa Bay office market recorded positive absorption of more than 55,000 square feet thanks to more companies moving into space rather than vacating it, JLL’s first-quarter Office Insight Report for 2023 shows. This can be largely attributed to Reliaquest’s move into its 140,000-square-foot headquarters located at Thousand & One Water Street, where it is currently occupying 120,000 square feet, and which made up the lion’s …
HOUSTON — Colliers has negotiated a 116,161-square-foot office headquarters lease at West Memorial Place I, a 331,000-square-foot building in Houston’s Energy Corridor area. The building is one of two at a complex that offers a fitness center, conference center, walking trails and an onsite restaurant and bar. David Carter and Jay Kyle of Colliers represented the tenant, MODEC International Inc., a supplier of mooring and fluid transfer systems for offshore energy companies, in the lease negotiations. Johnny Knight, Stewart Smith and Aaron Ander of Fuller Realty represented the undisclosed landlord.
HOUSTON — Houston-based energy firm Black Stone Minerals has signed a 55,082-square-foot office lease renewal at 1001 Fannin, a 47-story, 1.3 million-square-foot building in downtown Houston. Brad Beasley and Chip Colvill of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, JMB Realty Corp., in the lease negotiations. Trey Strake, David Guion and Chris Oliver, also with Cushman & Wakefield, represented the tenant. The building, which includes 25,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, recently underwent a capital improvement program that added new amenities, including a coffee shop, tenant lounge areas and a fitness center.
BOSTON — Stuf Storage, a company that converts unused portions of office buildings into self-storage space for tenants, has opened a 2,400-square-foot space at 18 Tremont Street, a 12-story building in downtown Boston. The deal marks the Boston debut of Stuf Storage, which also operates facilities in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Atlanta, Boston, Seattle and Washington, D.C.
KANSAS CITY, MO. — AesthetiCare Med Spa has opened its new headquarters at 9225 Ward Parkway in Kansas City. The new space totals roughly 20,000 square feet and combines three of the company’s offerings into one location. AesthetiCare also owns MINT Aesthetics, a national training center for Botox, dermal fillers, laser treatments and general aesthetics. Jeff Winters of Colliers represented AesthetiCare in its site selection, acquisition and tenant build-out. AesthetiCare employs a staff of 22 registered nurses and aestheticians, making it the largest med spa in metro Kansas City.