PHOENIX-Chrysler Group LLC has signed a six-year lease for 16,212 square feet at Paradise Village Office Park. The Auburn Hills, MI-based automaker will use the class A office space for a new administrative office to serve its local dealerships.

“Chrysler was in a hurry to get the office open, and they were only looking at class A and B+ space, so they were somewhat limited in their choices,” says Cooper Sutherland of Lincoln Property Company. He represented the building owners, Sterling American Property and Lincoln Property Company, along with Jerry Noble, Pat Devine and Greg Mayer of CBRE’s local office. Dev Gupta of UGL Equis Corp.’s local office represented Chrysler.

Sutherland tells GlobeSt.com that Sterling and Lincoln’s ability to close the deal quickly (using Chrysler’s lease form), along with being able to provide temporary space, were the keys to winning Chrysler as a tenant. “There are a lot of owners that aren’t willing to move quickly or be flexible,” he notes. “But this wasn’t the first time we had to expedite things and to push our lawyers and lender to move quickly. Quality tenants like Chrysler don’t come along all that often.”