Michael Scarpino, CCIM and Jennifer Scarpino of NAI Rauch Weaver Norfleet Kurtz & Co. represented the landlord in the lease of 28,654 rentable square feet of warehouse, manufacturing and showroom space in the 1551 North Powerline Road Building to Concept Elite, Inc. The lease was completed at the three building, 339,554 square foot Superior Commerce Park.
The tenant was not represented by a broker. The lease term was for 66 months with one, five year option to renew.
With the addition of this tenant, occupancy at has now increased to 83.6%.
Concept Elite is a fabricator of granite countertops for a variety of commercial and residential applications. The company plans to open a showroom of their product lines on the street frontage and warehouse their granite slabs in the warehouse portion of the space. They will also be building a state of the art fabrication line in the rear of their space.
Three bays remain available in the 1551 North Powerline Road Building and one bay remains available in the 1541 North Powerline Road Building.
https://sfoba.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/superior-commerce-park-2.jpg270275SFOBA STAFFhttps://dev.sfoba.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/SFOBA-logo-sharpened-transparent.pngSFOBA STAFF2011-10-06 20:58:062011-10-06 20:58:06Concept Elite, Inc. Leases 28,654 SF
The victory by Republican Bob Turner over Democrat David Welprin in the special election to fill the seat vacated by Anthony Weiner in the New York 9th congressional district has Democrats feeling something close to panic.
Victories by the opposition party in special elections are often seen as harbingers of trouble to come for the party in power. When such a victory occurs in a bluest of blue districts such as New York 9th, that wake-up call should be considered deafening. When one considers that New York’s 9th was once held by Chuck Schumer, now an uberliberal Senator, and that it was last held by a Republican at the beginning of the Coolidge administration, that wake-up call should be seen as the equivalent of a nuclear blast.
The victory by Turner is being touted as being similar to the victory by Scott Brown in the race to fill the Senate seat in Massachusetts vacated when Teddy Kennedy died. It is much more than that. Turner, according to the Washington Post, ran as an anti Obama, deficit and tax cutting, tea party candidate. Turner won by about six points, a convincing win in a district regularly carried by Democrats by double digits.
Turner also attacked Obama’s Middle East policy, especially in regards to Israel. Dan Senor, writing for the Wall Street Journal, suggests that Turner’s win signals a collapse of support for Obama among Jewish Americans, irate at the hostile stance the Obama administration has taken toward Israel. This sentiment was oddly echoed by DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, who blames the prevalence of culturally conservative Orthodox Jews for Turner’s defeat of Obama.
The question now arises, how will the Obama administration and the Democrats respond to the thumping it has received in the New York race and a second special election in Nevada? Obama ignored the Scott Brown victory and went full steam ahead to ram through health care reform. The political tsunami of 2010 resulted in the lost of the House and an erosion of the Democratic majority in the Senate.
If the Democrats ignore what happened in New York and Nevada, perhaps hoping that a nominee like Rick Perry or Sarah Palin could be beaten by Obama, they may set themselves up for a defeat in 2012 of historic proportions, the equivalent of what happened to Jimmy Carter in 1980.
Effective Friday, September 16th, Deanna Lobinsky, Travis Herring and Andy Ackerman have discontinued their association with the four Cabot Investment office buildings they once represented on behalf of the owner.
Corporate Center, located at 110 E Broward Blvd., Ft. Lauderdale
Cypress Creek Tower, located at 800 W Cypress Creek Road, Ft. Lauderdale
Preferred Exchange Tower, located at 3111 University Drive in Coral Springs
Trafalgar Plaza I & II, 5300-5310 NW 33rd Avenue, Ft. Lauderdale
No reason was given for the CBRE team’s departure, but rumors began swirling about a month ago regarding Cabot’s inability to pay brokerage fees in a timely manner. ‘Nuff said.
https://sfoba.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/corporate-center.png270275SFOBA STAFFhttps://dev.sfoba.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/SFOBA-logo-sharpened-transparent.pngSFOBA STAFF2011-09-20 17:33:342011-09-20 17:33:34Lobinsky Herring Team Pulls Out Of Cabot Listings
110 Tower, the 30-story, 391,473 square-foot ‘class-A’ office building located in Downtown Fort Lauderdale’s Central Business District, is pleased to announce that Mayor Jack Seiler and the City Commission of Fort Lauderdale have designated September 7, 2011 as “110 Tower Day” in the City of Fort Lauderdale.
The Proclamation, presented by Commissioner Romney Rogers during the City Commission meeting on September 7, was issued in recognition of 110 Tower earning the prestigious LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), and comes merely two weeks after 110 Tower also won the GalaVerde award in the LEED for Existing Buildings category presented by USGBC’s South Florida Chapter.
110 Tower is currently the only option for tenants seeking a LEED Gold certified building within a multi-tenant high-rise office tower in Downtown Fort Lauderdale. Less than 300 buildings worldwide have received 110 Tower’s high-level distinction. In addition, 110 Tower achieved an ENERGY STAR® rating from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the only building in the Central Business District to earn this recognition.
David Castilla, president, GenCap Partners, representing the owner of 110 Tower, accepted the proclamation on the team’s behalf, thanking the City of Fort Lauderdale for their unwavering support and reinforcing the team’s commitment to strong sustainability policies in order to afford tenants and surrounding neighbors the long-term benefits their investment provides.
110 Tower is in the midst of a comprehensive $15 million renovation program that includes upgrades to the ground floor lobby, new interior and exterior retail spaces, upgraded upper-floor common areas, restroom and other interior spaces, replacement and improvement of all building primary mechanical systems, and a unique exterior lighting system. Since coming on board as the building’s property management and commercial leasing team in 2009, Transwestern has leased more than 200,000 square feet of office space of which 90,000 are new tenants. 110 Tower’s onsite property management team utilized the expertise of Transwestern Sustainability Services, a LEED consulting firm based in Milwaukee, to achieve their goals for 110 Tower. The team included AECOM, City Construction, Coastal Building Maintenance, ECO and DebonAir Mechanical.
In order to achieve the heightened standards of LEED Gold from USGBC, GenCap Partners and Transwestern incorporated a number of enhanced eco-friendly strategies, resulting in an even greater environmental impact. These features included:
Energy Efficiency: The Tower’s Energy Star score was 86, placing it in the top 14% of similar buildings nationwide. The building emits 33% less greenhouse gas emissions than an average building, and is saving more than $198,000 on utility bills annually.
Sustainable Site: A highly reflective roof surface and an 8,798 square-foot vegetated roof area reduces the urban heat island effect, and minimizes the impacts of microclimates on humans and wildlife.
Water System Efficiency: The implementation of a water efficiency program, including plumbing fixture retrofits, accomplished a 35% reduction of water use in all fixtures.
Green Cleaning: The Tower utilizes products and equipment that are toxin-free to preserve air quality in the building.
Recycling: Implementation of a waste stream audit and occupant education programs to increase the amount of recycling and waste diversion in the building.
Purchasing: The Tower uses a green office supply purchasing program to minimize the environmental impacts related to energy use, resource depletion, and waste.
If you haven’t heard about it, “projection mapping” is defined by Mashable as “a relatively new technology that animates stationary objects with 3D video.” While researching this “new technology”, it appears to be the latest and greatest. Still, it seemed to me an awful lot like projecting a video on a really big surface, which is hardly “new technology.”
Then I took a few minutes and actually watched some video examples. Wow! Absolutely incredible! When done well, projection mapping creates the powerful illusion of a building actually coming to life. Take a look for yourself. Below is a video of an Architectural Projection Mapping production in London:
Architectural Projection Mapping is a fancy term for playing a light show on a building. The designer plans out the show for each buildings architectural features. Think in terms of marketing building renovations!
Evan Grant of Seeper, an Arts and Technology firm based in East London that specializes in projection mapping productions, explains the technology this way, “In simple terms, we take the architectural plans of a building — or if they don’t exist, we create them. Using these plans, we recreate the building as a 3-D model using computer software. Using super-bright projectors and our custom software, we project the model onto the building, aligning it to the architectural details.”
Introducing South Florida’s newest electronic database – FloridaCIE.
ePropertyData has introduced FloridaCIE, a new commercial real estate information exchange specifically for the Miami Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties, providing members with access to professional marketing tools, plus organized, analytical data for research and sales. For just $65 monthy, (yep, you got that right…only $65!) members have access to:
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FloridaCIE is “property-centric,” meaning that the database that underlies the CIE system is structured and patterned upon an inventory of all the commercial parcels and buildings in the tri-county market. A property -entric system produces more accurate data! The system allows for historical sale and lease transaction tracking in addition to current data. Sale and lease listing systems cannot compare.
Search commercial real estate for sale and for lease. Search commercial land and multi-family listings. Access listing information for Office, Industrial and Retail product.
Members also have access to tenant information, iPad Mobile App, fastFlyer, National Haves and Wants Database and Investit Lite software – all FREE with their paid subscription!
Come see for yourself! CRE-sources will be co-hosting a demo of FloridaCIE along with Liberty Property Trust on Wednesday, September 14th at Sunset Plaza, located at 13621 NW 12th Street in Sunrise. A light breakfast will be served.
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Concept Elite, Inc. Leases 28,654 SF
/in Done Deals/by SFOBA STAFFMichael Scarpino, CCIM and Jennifer Scarpino of NAI Rauch Weaver Norfleet Kurtz & Co. represented the landlord in the lease of 28,654 rentable square feet of warehouse, manufacturing and showroom space in the 1551 North Powerline Road Building to Concept Elite, Inc. The lease was completed at the three building, 339,554 square foot Superior Commerce Park.
The tenant was not represented by a broker. The lease term was for 66 months with one, five year option to renew.
With the addition of this tenant, occupancy at has now increased to 83.6%.
Concept Elite is a fabricator of granite countertops for a variety of commercial and residential applications. The company plans to open a showroom of their product lines on the street frontage and warehouse their granite slabs in the warehouse portion of the space. They will also be building a state of the art fabrication line in the rear of their space.
Three bays remain available in the 1551 North Powerline Road Building and one bay remains available in the 1541 North Powerline Road Building.
NY Congressional Defeat a Wake-Up Call for Obama, Democrats
/in News/by SFOBA STAFFThe victory by Republican Bob Turner over Democrat David Welprin in the special election to fill the seat vacated by Anthony Weiner in the New York 9th congressional district has Democrats feeling something close to panic.
Victories by the opposition party in special elections are often seen as harbingers of trouble to come for the party in power. When such a victory occurs in a bluest of blue districts such as New York 9th, that wake-up call should be considered deafening. When one considers that New York’s 9th was once held by Chuck Schumer, now an uberliberal Senator, and that it was last held by a Republican at the beginning of the Coolidge administration, that wake-up call should be seen as the equivalent of a nuclear blast.
The victory by Turner is being touted as being similar to the victory by Scott Brown in the race to fill the Senate seat in Massachusetts vacated when Teddy Kennedy died. It is much more than that. Turner, according to the Washington Post, ran as an anti Obama, deficit and tax cutting, tea party candidate. Turner won by about six points, a convincing win in a district regularly carried by Democrats by double digits.
Turner also attacked Obama’s Middle East policy, especially in regards to Israel. Dan Senor, writing for the Wall Street Journal, suggests that Turner’s win signals a collapse of support for Obama among Jewish Americans, irate at the hostile stance the Obama administration has taken toward Israel. This sentiment was oddly echoed by DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, who blames the prevalence of culturally conservative Orthodox Jews for Turner’s defeat of Obama.
The question now arises, how will the Obama administration and the Democrats respond to the thumping it has received in the New York race and a second special election in Nevada? Obama ignored the Scott Brown victory and went full steam ahead to ram through health care reform. The political tsunami of 2010 resulted in the lost of the House and an erosion of the Democratic majority in the Senate.
If the Democrats ignore what happened in New York and Nevada, perhaps hoping that a nominee like Rick Perry or Sarah Palin could be beaten by Obama, they may set themselves up for a defeat in 2012 of historic proportions, the equivalent of what happened to Jimmy Carter in 1980.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Source: Yahoo! News
Lobinsky Herring Team Pulls Out Of Cabot Listings
/in News/by SFOBA STAFFEffective Friday, September 16th, Deanna Lobinsky, Travis Herring and Andy Ackerman have discontinued their association with the four Cabot Investment office buildings they once represented on behalf of the owner.
No reason was given for the CBRE team’s departure, but rumors began swirling about a month ago regarding Cabot’s inability to pay brokerage fees in a timely manner. ‘Nuff said.
September 7th Designated “110 Tower Day”
/in News/by SFOBA STAFF110 Tower, the 30-story, 391,473 square-foot ‘class-A’ office building located in Downtown Fort Lauderdale’s Central Business District, is pleased to announce that Mayor Jack Seiler and the City Commission of Fort Lauderdale have designated September 7, 2011 as “110 Tower Day” in the City of Fort Lauderdale.
The Proclamation, presented by Commissioner Romney Rogers during the City Commission meeting on September 7, was issued in recognition of 110 Tower earning the prestigious LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), and comes merely two weeks after 110 Tower also won the GalaVerde award in the LEED for Existing Buildings category presented by USGBC’s South Florida Chapter.
110 Tower is currently the only option for tenants seeking a LEED Gold certified building within a multi-tenant high-rise office tower in Downtown Fort Lauderdale. Less than 300 buildings worldwide have received 110 Tower’s high-level distinction. In addition, 110 Tower achieved an ENERGY STAR® rating from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the only building in the Central Business District to earn this recognition.
David Castilla, president, GenCap Partners, representing the owner of 110 Tower, accepted the proclamation on the team’s behalf, thanking the City of Fort Lauderdale for their unwavering support and reinforcing the team’s commitment to strong sustainability policies in order to afford tenants and surrounding neighbors the long-term benefits their investment provides.
110 Tower is in the midst of a comprehensive $15 million renovation program that includes upgrades to the ground floor lobby, new interior and exterior retail spaces, upgraded upper-floor common areas, restroom and other interior spaces, replacement and improvement of all building primary mechanical systems, and a unique exterior lighting system. Since coming on board as the building’s property management and commercial leasing team in 2009, Transwestern has leased more than 200,000 square feet of office space of which 90,000 are new tenants. 110 Tower’s onsite property management team utilized the expertise of Transwestern Sustainability Services, a LEED consulting firm based in Milwaukee, to achieve their goals for 110 Tower. The team included AECOM, City Construction, Coastal Building Maintenance, ECO and DebonAir Mechanical.
In order to achieve the heightened standards of LEED Gold from USGBC, GenCap Partners and Transwestern incorporated a number of enhanced eco-friendly strategies, resulting in an even greater environmental impact. These features included:
New Trend For 2011: Architectural Projection Mapping
/in Trends/by SFOBA STAFFIf you haven’t heard about it, “projection mapping” is defined by Mashable as “a relatively new technology that animates stationary objects with 3D video.” While researching this “new technology”, it appears to be the latest and greatest. Still, it seemed to me an awful lot like projecting a video on a really big surface, which is hardly “new technology.”
Then I took a few minutes and actually watched some video examples. Wow! Absolutely incredible! When done well, projection mapping creates the powerful illusion of a building actually coming to life. Take a look for yourself. Below is a video of an Architectural Projection Mapping production in London:
Architectural Projection Mapping is a fancy term for playing a light show on a building. The designer plans out the show for each buildings architectural features. Think in terms of marketing building renovations!
Evan Grant of Seeper, an Arts and Technology firm based in East London that specializes in projection mapping productions, explains the technology this way, “In simple terms, we take the architectural plans of a building — or if they don’t exist, we create them. Using these plans, we recreate the building as a 3-D model using computer software. Using super-bright projectors and our custom software, we project the model onto the building, aligning it to the architectural details.”
New Commercial Information Exchange Launches In South Florida
/in News/by SFOBA STAFFIntroducing South Florida’s newest electronic database – FloridaCIE.
ePropertyData has introduced FloridaCIE, a new commercial real estate information exchange specifically for the Miami Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties, providing members with access to professional marketing tools, plus organized, analytical data for research and sales. For just $65 monthy, (yep, you got that right…only $65!) members have access to:
FloridaCIE is “property-centric,” meaning that the database that underlies the CIE system is structured and patterned upon an inventory of all the commercial parcels and buildings in the tri-county market. A property -entric system produces more accurate data! The system allows for historical sale and lease transaction tracking in addition to current data. Sale and lease listing systems cannot compare.
Search commercial real estate for sale and for lease. Search commercial land and multi-family listings. Access listing information for Office, Industrial and Retail product.
Members also have access to tenant information, iPad Mobile App, fastFlyer, National Haves and Wants Database and Investit Lite software – all FREE with their paid subscription!
Come see for yourself! CRE-sources will be co-hosting a demo of FloridaCIE along with Liberty Property Trust on Wednesday, September 14th at Sunset Plaza, located at 13621 NW 12th Street in Sunrise. A light breakfast will be served.
All attendees will receive an exclusive 30-day free trial! CLICK HERE TO REGISTER