NEW YORK CITY—A new tenant has joined the Alexandria Center for Life Science. Nestlé Skin Health has inked a 30,400-square-foot, full-floor lease in the Midtown South facility's West Tower for 16 years. CBRE Group's John Isaacs, EVP and New York City life science practice leader, represented the tenant.

Cushman & Wakefield has negotiated a 15-year, 20,344-square-foot, two-level lease with Anthropologie at 195 Broadway on behalf of the building owner, L&L Holding Co. C&W EVP Alan Schmerzler and vice chairman C. Bradley Mendelson, together with L&L EVP David Berkey represented the landlord. Wade McDevitt and Stephen Plourde of McDevitt Co. represented Anthropologie, a division of publicly traded Urban Outfitters.

A NoHo building has reached full occupancy after two leases were brokered for 50,725 square feet at the property. The first of the two deals at 400 Lafayette St., was a five-year, 23,456-square-foot lease for DraftKings while the second deal was a seven-year, 27,269-square-foot lease for SeatGeek. In both transactions Jay Caseley, Joseph LaRosa and Charles Conwell of ABS Partners Real Estate represented the landlord, Sand Associates. Greg Wang, Joe Perlson and Eric Cagner of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank represented DraftKings while Jack Petrie and Eva Shuh of Office Leasing Center represented SeatGeek in the other. Asking rents were in the high $60s per square foot.

Trader Joe's is making its sophomore effort in Brooklyn. The grocer is opening its second store in the borough—this time in Williamsburg, according to Crain's New York Business. The 18,000-square-foot store will serve as the anchor tenant in a mixed-use building at 206 Kent Ave. Purchased as a vacant lot in Jan. 2014 by Alliance Private Capital, the site will have a 45,000-square-foot mixed-use building with ground-floor retail and office space upstairs.

DTZ has secured a 15-year, 14,126-square-foot lease for Nonprofit Finance Fund, a community development financial institution at Five Hanover Square. The national not-for-profit organization is relocating from 70 West 36th St., where it has been for almost 20 years. DTZ's David Lebenstein, senior managing director, Janet Woods, executive managing director and Nicholas Woodhull, senior associate, represented the tenant. Newmark Grubb Knight Frank's Todd Stracci, Hal Stein and Travis Wilson of represented the landlord.

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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.