DALLAS-Gensler, a seven-year tenant in Lincoln Centre, has reworked its lease nearly two years early to double the office size and tack several more years onto the term. The leading architectural firm will relocate Feb. 1 within the class A complex to get a full floor or 32,383 sf in Tower II.

Greg Biggs, executive director of Dallas-based Cushman & Wakefield of Texas Inc., tells GlobeSt.com that the initial search sized up office buildings from Uptown to North Dallas, but the decision to stay was mortared by the availability of a full floor in the high-profile, 1.6-million-sf office complex, which is at least 94% leased. Gensler is getting the 11th floor of the 19-story Tower II at 5420 LBJ Fwy. and vacating 16,000 sf on the fourth floor of Tower III at 5430 LBJ Fwy.

Gensler plans to completely retrofit the floor into LEED-certified space. “That was an important piece for them,” Biggs says, “and that's going to make their space different from other competing firms.” Judy Pesek, director and managing principal of San Francisco-based Gensler's Dallas office, is leading the design team for the new office for the 90-member staff.