NEW YORK CITY — JLL has brokered a new, direct lease for AKF Group LLC at One Liberty Plaza in Lower Manhattan. The engineering firm signed a 15-year lease for 57,018 square feet of space at the 2.3 million-square-foot commercial office building owned by Brookfield. AKF will occupy the entire 44,378-square-foot 22nd floor and a portion of the 23rd floor at the building, which is located across from the World Trade Center. The firm is consolidating its presence downtown from locations at 1501 Broadway and 330 West 42nd Street in Midtown. Paul Mas, Michael Shenot, Ruby Hwang and Roxanne Tehranian of JLL represented the tenant in the transaction. Brookfield was represented in-house by Jeremiah Larkin and Duncan McCuaig, along with David Falk, Peter Shimkin, Hal Stein and Nick Berger of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank.
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