Leasing

AUSTIN-The Calendar Club already has flipped the page to April when it will be moving into an extra 54,000 sf at the Expo Business Park. The deal's signed and the plans are in the works for the nationwide chain, which now occupies 124,000 sf.

WHITE PLAINS-A panel of Westchester-Fairfield real estate brokers and developers agree that the year 2000 was an exceptional year for leasing volume and absorption and that it will be tough to beat this year.

SAN JOSE-After five years out of the market, the locally based purveyor of channel marketing Websites has re-leased 193,000 sf at Spieker's Creekside Technology Center here on Fox Drive. It also is busy developing office space on property it owns across the street.

SECAUCUS, NJ-The NY-based publisher and distributor of children's books, including the highly successful Harry Potter series, will use the space as its new information services center. Grubb & Ellis brokers arranged the deal.

NEW YORK CITY-Last month alone approximately 1.8 million sf of space was leased or sold in just Manhattan in all of the market sectors. The majority of it was office space.

ATLANTA-The country's largest direct-mail marketing company will move its metro area processing center in April from its current 115,000 sf location in Fulton County to a 144,500-sf headquarters structure at Riverside Business Park.