Long Island

Computer Network Solutions has leased approximately 35,000 square feet for its corporate headquarters and managed network operations at 131 Hoffman Ln. in Islandia, NY. Scott Berfas and Chuck Tabone of Newmark Knight Frank represented CNS in lease negotiation, and Newmark’s Jack O’Connor, Brian Lee and Berfas also represented ownership, Matteau! Matteau! Matteau! Realty, LLC. “The 114,000-square-foot office building is being repositioned through comprehensive renovations,” Berfas says in a release. “CNS is moving its headquarters due to demand it is seeing from its account base in the area of colocation datacenter services.”

St. Joseph’s College, with campuses in Brooklyn and Patchogue, NY, has signed a long-term lease for the entire 27,500-square-foot second floor of the new 300 Building at Metropolitan Realty Associates’ Sunrise Business Center in Great River, NY. The private, non-sectarian college founded in 1916, plans to use the Great River space for administrative operations. Christopher E. Stack of CB Richard Ellis represented St. Joseph’s in the transaction. Metropolitan was represented in-house by Eric Englander and by a Cushman & Wakefield leasing team including David Leviton, Robert Kuppersmith, Marisa Karmitz and Zachary Price. Metropolitan’s deal with St. Joseph’s follows the company’s recent announcement that University Support Services, an administrative affiliate of St. George’s University in Grenada, had leased 50,000 square feet at the same property.