Lance A. Benson, Vice President, Grubb & Ellis Tenant Advisory Group, represented Independent Living Systems, a healthcare management services company, in a long-term lease of 34,080sf at 5201 Blue Lagoon Drive in Waterford at Blue Lagoon.
Steven J. Medwin will head the Jones Lang LaSalle’s brokerage business for South Florida. His responsibilities will include managing the landlord and tenant representation teams for both office and industrial real estate.
Office leasing has increased each quarter this year, with banks and law firms making moves. This is a boost for Miami-Dade’s office market, which was slow in 2009. But new office buildings, coupled with fewer tenants coming into the market, are adding to vacancies, as existing tenants are signing most of the deals.
Cushman & Wakefield recently announced that Wachovia Financial Center was named Outstanding LEED EB Project by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) South Florida Chapter’s Galaverde Awards.
The Palm Beach County-based medical device company will relocate its offices from Palm Beach County to a 15,000 square foot corporate office in the UM LSTP’s first building.
Catarina Jimenez, Gavin Macphail and Richard Schuchts of Jones Lang LaSalle will lead leasing and marketing efforts for the 252,000sf phase one building of the University of Miami’s Life Science & Technology Park in Miami.
The former Bank of America Tower at International Place, more recently known as Miami Tower, located in downtown Miami, is for sale and could fetch as much as $120 million.
Transwestern South Florida announced the 14,434sf lease expansion for Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial, LLC at SBS Tower, a 22-story Class A office building located at 2601 South Bayshore Drive in Coconut Grove.
Just days after unveiling that 1450 Brickell now has 226,000 square feet of office space leased, the project’s developer announced today that the ‘class-A’ building has been awarded LEED Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council. This makes 1450 Brickell the Downtown Miami/Brickell market’s first and only office tower to achieve LEED Gold status in the core and shell category, which applies to new construction.
Cushman & Wakefield announced that Mirta DeCespedes has been named senior research associate for the firm’s South Florida offices.