NEW YORK CITY-The NYC Department of Design and Construction has signed a 233,000 square foot lease renewal and expansion at the Queens Atrium, in Long Island City. The department will occupy multiple floors of the six-level facility, located at 30-30 Thomson Ave.
The 15-year agreement is a renewal of the department's existing approximate 210,000 square feet space plus an expansion of 23,000 square feet. The DDC will remain in what is an up-and-coming area of the city, says Randall Briskin, VP of leasing at the Feil Organization, which brokered the deal on behalf of the landlord.
The area is rapidly changing with residential construction. Long Island City is slated to see the construction of over 8,000 units of residential housing, as well as a flurry of new stores and restaurants,” Briskin says. “Additionally, there has been a migration of 'back office users' looking to mitigate the rising occupancy costs of Manhattan.”
The tenant was represented by CBRE's SVPs Doug Holowink and John Reinertsen; senior project managers Rachna Desi-Jain and Keith Thompson; VP John Morrill; senior associate Michael Lee and transaction specialist Sean Wilson.
A former industrial building that dates back to the first quarter of the century, Queens Atrium has been artfully redeveloped into office and conference space, as well as a showroom. The building is ideally located in the heart of Long Island City, minutes from Long Island and midtown Manhattan in an emerging residential and commercial section of Queens.
Formerly occupied by the American Chiclet Company, Queens Atrium was master planned by I. M. Pei, the world-renowned modernist architect. It features a restaurant, conference facilities, concierge desk and lobby security cameras. It is one of the few buildings in the city with its own bus service operating continuously throughout the day to local transportation hubs, including the 7, E, F, G, N and R subway lines, three bus routes and the Long Island Railroad Hunters Point station.
“Dealing with the unique demands of a governmental agency can always be challenging,” Briskin says. “This deal was long and arduous, but all parties rose to the occasion in the spirit of insuring that our existing relationship as landlord to the agency could be continued for the next 15 years.”
The DDC is the city's primary capital construction project manager and provides communities with new or renovated structures such as firehouses, libraries, police precincts, courthouses and senior centers, as well as roadway, sewer and water main construction projects in all five boroughs.
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Rayna Katz
Rayna Katz is a seasoned business journalist whose extensive experience includes coverage of the lodging sector, travel and the culinary space. She was most recently content director for a business-to-business publisher, overseeing four publications. While at Meeting News, a travel trade publication, she received a Best Reporting award for a story on meeting cancellations in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.
