LOS ANGELES-Those who follow @GlobeStcom on Twitter may have seen a post teasing the announcement yesterday, but GlobeSt.com has learned that Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, a national, full-service law firm, has signed a 10-year lease renewal of 160,000 square feet of office space at 221 N. Figueroa St. The transaction’s total consideration is estimated at $45 million.
Newmark Grubb Knight Frank’s Clayton Hovivian, EVP of tenant advisory and law firm practice groups, along with Hank Elder, SVP, represented the law firm in its renewal. In recent years, Hovivian also has assisted the law firm with transactions in New Jersey and in San Diego.
“We are very pleased to recommit to a location where our firm has been able to grow over the past several decades,” explains Robert F. Lewis, founder, of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, in a prepared statement. “With Clayton and Hank’s help, we conducted a careful review of the market and determined that 221 N. Figueroa offered the most attractive economics, ample parking for our employees at competitive rates and other concessions we were able to secure.”
According to public records, the building is owned by the L.A. City Council, who purchased the building from a JV between Kennedy Wilson and Broadway Partners for $269 million back in 2007. Studley tells GlobeSt.com that it is unable to provide any building occupancy information at this time. The landlord was represented by Onno Zwaneveld, executive vice president, CB Richard Ellis.
“Market fundamentals in the downtown LA office market saw a small improvement in the first quarter as direct vacancy dropped by 0.02 percentage points,” Tim Miller, SVP of Jones Lang LaSalle, tells GlobeSt.com. Although not involved in this particular deal, Miller explains that the good news for the Downtown L.A. office leasing market is that “Tenants are making decisions and locking in longer term leases as they become more comfortable with long term business plans.” With that being said, Miller continues, “it is still a very competitive submarket with landlords going toe-to-toe to attract tenants that are shopping for space.”
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