Archive for July, 2008
By Connie Gore, GlobeSt.com June 4, 2008
DALLAS- With Preston Commons as the prize, BentleyForbes Group has signed Nicola’s Ristorante Italiano to an 11-year lease as eye candy for its valuable Preston Road frontage. The popular North Dallas restaurateur will open an 8,100-sf signature location by February 2009 Hans Mumper, senior vice president and co-director of asset management for the Los Angeles-based owner, credits BentleyForbes Chairman, C. Frederick Wehba, with the idea to take part of the valued office space and use it for retail.
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July 14 2008 | Uncategorized
Frazier & Deeter LLC, one of Atlanta’s most respected local certified public accounting and advisory firms, has signed a long-term lease agreement with building owner BentleyForbes to renew and expand its headquarters location at Bank of America Plaza to 60,000 square feet of Class A office space. ” The accounting firm’s reputation for excellence is well established in the Atlanta marketplace, and having them continue on and expand as part of the Bank of America Plaza business community is a positive affirmation of the quality of this trophy tower and its tenants,” said BentleyForbes Chairman Fred Wehba.
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Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd., a leading intellectual property law firm, has signed a long-term renewal and expansion lease totaling 70,408 square feet on five floors at Two Prudential Plaza, a 64-story Class A office tower owned and operated by BentleyForbes. Since taking ownership of Prudential Plaza in 2006, BentleyForbes has invested approximately $2 million on capital improvements throughout the towers and shared common areas, said BentleyForbes Chairman C. Frederick Wehba.
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Chicago (August 29, 2007) - International trading firm Optiver has signed a long-term lease to relocate its U.S. trading operations to a full floor encompassing 23,000 square feet of Class A office space at One Prudential Plaza. “BentleyForbes has invested approximately $2 million on capital improvements throughout the building since taking ownership of Prudential Plaza in 2006,” said BentleyForbes Chairman Fred Wehba. The improvements included the necessary infrastructure and maintenance to create a secure operating environment for companies, such as international traders, that cannot have their connectivity interrupted. Prudential Plaza was able to provide Optiver with three levels of power redundancy and supplemental cooling with relative ease, including available space for dedicated generators installed by the trading firm.
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July 14 2008 | Uncategorized
Atlanta’s Bank of America Plaza is immediately recognizable on the Midtown skyline from any approach for its signature 23-karat gold-leafed spire with a lighted, open-grid, stepped-pyramid roof. The building has long been noted for its premier status among Atlanta’s elite business addresses, said BentleyForbes Chairman C. Frederick Wehba. “It is also widely recognized for its roster of notable tenants, which currently include Bank of America, Troutman Sanders, Paul Hastings, Boston Consulting, Hunton & Williams, and Frazier & Deeter.” One of Atlanta’s top 10 accounting firms, Frazier & Deeter LLC, signed a long-term lease in Bank of America Plaza to expand from 50,000 to 60,000 square feet. “What you have is a major tenant that could have gone anywhere in the marketplace, but it concluded that Bank of America Plaza is still a phenomenal asset for them.” said David W. Cobb, CEO of Bentley Forbes.
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July 14 2008 | Uncategorized
BentleyForbes CEO David W. Cobb told Douglas Sams of the Atlanta Business Chronicle that the signature upgrade for Bank of America Plaza in Atlanta would be a white-tablecloth restaurant. “If you look at this building, it has about 5,000 employees when it’s fully occupied,” Cobb said. “There is a great demand for these types of restaurants and additional retail here. And to be part of the development of the Midtown Mile is clearly another reason we are doing this.”
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