By Billy Gray 3/07 7:45am

Lease Beat

Industry City

Lights Up! Inks 12,000-Squre-Foot Lease at Industry City

The lighting designer and manufacturer Lights Up! has signed a 12,000-square-foot lease at 148 39th Street in Industry City.

The company–which has provided commercial and residential lighting since 1987–will use the space primarily as a manufacturing and wholesale location, and has plans to add a design studio component down the line.

Julius Chabbott, director of real estate at Industry City, represented the landlord. The tenant represented itself. Asking rents were $13 per square foot. Mr. Chabbott was not available for comment. Read More

By Billy Gray 2/27 3:46pm

Lease Beat

Industry City

Colson Patisserie Signs 4,000-Square-Foot Industry City Lease

Colson Patisserie inked a roughly 4,000-square-foot lease at 220 East 36th Street in the Industry City complex, The Commercial Observer has learned.

The space will include a working bakery and a retail cafe component of the Belgian bakery, which opened its first Brooklyn location in 2006 at 374 9th Street in Park Slope. Colson will not be the only Industry City tenant with sweet tooth appeal: Blue Marble Ice Cream and Tumbador Chocolate already produce confections in the 16-building, 1.1-million-square-foot Sunset Park compound.

Julius Chabbott, director of real estate at Industry City, represented the landlord. Colson represented itself. Read More