Bankruptcy Drives New Leasing Team into Action

DALLAS-Jones Lang LaSalle’s Dallas office had a sweetheart of a deal when it got the leasing assignment for a fully occupied class A building in the Platinum Corridor. Then, one of two tenants went belly-up, putting the leasing team on notice that 56,269 sf would become available Aug. 1.

To offset the loss, the Jones Lang LaSalle team is hard at work to find a replacement tenant for Briargrove Place, situated at 17855 Dallas Parkway. “This was a total surprise. It melted down overnight,” Sandie Matejek, Jones Lang LaSalle’s property leasing agent, tells GlobeSt.com. Not to be undaunted, Matejek and general manager Katie Skipworth have put together a marketing plan to alert brokers that the premier office space is coming to market.

The office space being vacated by Marketing Specialists, based in Dallas, includes the entire second floor, where there is 32,756 sf of contiguous space. The marketing firm has been a tenant since Oct. 1, 1998.