MIAMI-DHL Global Forwarding Americas is relocating itsoperations on the south side of Miami International Airport (MIA),where it currently has 164,000 square feet in the Blue LagoonBusiness Park, to a building in the Miami International CommerceCenter, also near MIA, where it will have 201,399 square feet.

The lease is the largest new lease done in the last two or threeyears in the Airport West/Doral submarket, says Walter Byrd,managing director at Transwestern in Miami, who represented thelandlord, DCT Industrial, a REIT, in the deal, although he notesthat the new space represents only a small expansion for DHL (Doralis an incorporated city). DCT was also represented bymanaging director Ben Eisenberg and senior vice president, ThomasKresse of Transwestern.

DHL Global is slated to occupy the new building by the endof the year. The extra space will allow the company to consolidateits South Florida operations with 220 employees into one facility.The company currently has 15,000 square feet of office space inPlantation, FL, near Fort Lauderdale, FL. The lease, which wassigned in June, is for 10 years.