Cushman & Wakefield Negotiates Renewal for Grant Thornton

By admin • December 7, 2009

Metropark Corporate Campus Provides Image, Accessibility for High-Profile Firm

EDISON, N.J., Oct. 30, 2009 – Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. has negotiated a long-term, 16,000-square-foot lease renewal for Grant Thornton, LLP at 399 Thornall Street, Metropark Corporate Campus in Edison. The company, which has been located at the Class A property for 10 years, is the U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton International Ltd, one of the six global audit, tax and advisory organizations.

Richard Baumstein and Matthew Seltzer of Cushman & Wakefield’s East Rutherford, N.J., office, and Mitchell Barnett of the firm’s Manhattan headquarters, headed the assignment. Cushman & Wakefield has been working with Grant Thornton for more than 25 years and orchestrated the company’s original lease at 399 Thornall Street in 1999. M. Alfieri Company owns the Metropark Corporate Campus and was represented in-house.

399 Thornall Street serves as Grant Thornton’s main New Jersey office. Headquartered in Chicago, the company maintains locations nationwide. Grant Thornton International is one of the world’s leading organizations of independently owned and managed accounting and consulting firms, providing assurance, tax and specialist business advice to privately held businesses and public interest entities.

“Grant Thornton is a major, high-profile organization, and Metropark Corporate Campus provides the quality image and responsive landlord service it requires,” Baumstein said. “Beyond that, the property’s central New Jersey location and easy accessibility make it a perfect base for Grant Thornton in terms of efficiently serving its regional customer base.”

The four-building, approximately one million-square-foot Metropark Corporate Campus sits just off Exit 131 of the Garden State Parkway and Route 27, with easy access to the New Jersey Turnpike and I-287. 399 Thornall Street shares a striking glass atrium with its sister building, 379 Thornall Street. The two 14-story structures together provide more than 660,000 square feet of Class A office accommodations.