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Subject: Leases (LSE)
Sale-Leaseback Market Sees Heavy 4Q Activity
A total of $4.71 billion of sale-leaseback transactions were completed during the fourth quarter, according to SLB Capital Advisors. That marked the busiest quarter since the first quarter of 2023, when $4.74 billion of deals were completed.
Starbucks Spurns Seattle, Expanding into Nashville
Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report Starbucks Corp., which was founded in 1971 in Seattle's famed Pike Place Market, is expanding its office footprint—but not in its hometown. Instead, the coffeehouse chain is looking for about 250,000 square feet of ...
Power Generation Company Fully Leases 407,302 SF Industrial Building in Cypress, Texas
REBusinessOnline Enchanted Rock has agreed to fully lease a 407,302‑square‑foot industrial building at 18501 Mound Road in Cypress, Texas, about 29 miles northwest of Houston. The property that the power generation company is leasing is the first completed within the ...
Bank of America Expands to Take All of Manhattan’s One Bryant Park
Bloomberg Bank of America has agreed to take occupancy of all 2.36 million square feet at the One Bryant Park office building in Midtown Manhattan. The 51-story property was constructed in 2008 catercorner to Bryant Park on 42nd Street. It ...
Industrious Expands to 291,600 SF at Manhattan’s Tower 49
Commercial Observer Industrious has expanded its footprint by 51,600 square feet, to 291,600 sf, at Tower 49, giving it nearly half of the space in the 600,000-sf office building in Midtown Manhattan. The coworking company first took space in the building ...
BXP Leases Another 230,000 SF at Manhattan’s 360 Park Ave. South
BXP Inc. has leased another 230,000 square feet at its recently redeveloped 360 Park Ave. South building in Manhattan's Midtown South area. The Boston REIT purchased the 113-year-old structure in 2021 through a venture with two partners for $300 million. ...
Cousins Properties Records Best Leasing Year Since 2019
Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report Cousins Properties Inc. recorded 2.1 million square feet of leasing last year, marking the office REIT's best year since 2019. The Atlanta company has benefited from the corporate migration to the Sunbelt from areas ...
214,000-SF Industrial Lease Signed in Columbus, Ohio
REBusiness Online MMR Group Inc. has agreed to fully lease the 214,000-square-foot industrial building at 2300 McGraw Road in Columbus, Ohio. The electrical and contracting company is taking the space from Founders Properties in a deal that CBRE is brokering. ...
Hunt Electric Affiliate to Fully Lease 606,000-SF Industrial Building in Georgetown, Texas
REBusiness Online Baer Manufacturing has signed a lease for an entire 606,000-square-foot industrial building that's being planned for the Crosspoint Business District in the Austin, Texas, suburb of Georgetown, Texas. The company, a unit of Hunt Electric Corp., is leasing ...
TD Securities Takes More Space at Manhattan’s 125 Park Ave. Office
TD Securities expanded its office footprint at 125 Park Ave. in Midtown Manhattan by 51,081 square feet to a total of 181,447 sf. The investment bank was represented in the latest lease, which has a term of 10 years, by ...
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