Nine-Floor Tenant Takes One More in CBD Tower

HOUSTON-A fixture in the CBD’s legal scene, Andrews Kurth LLP has added 23,000 sf to a 200,000-sf lease at JPMorgan Chase Tower, working out a co-terminus run with a long-term pact inked three years ago.

Charles Gordon, executive vice president with Houston’s CBRE/Trione & Gordon tells GlobeSt.com that the expansion takes up an additional floor in the 75-story, 1.7-million-sf tower at 600 Travis St. He says Andrews Kurth discussed moving its information technology and human resources departments to another building to gain needed space, but the tower’s building owner, Prime Asset Management of Houston, came up with the right incentives to stay. The law firm’s lease spans 10 floors.