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NEW YORK, NY - November 8, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle has completed construction on two new high-end stores, totaling 153,000 square feet, for Uniqlo Co. Ltd. in Manhattan. The locations include the Japanese clothing retailer’s New York global flagship at 666 Fifth Avenue and another store at 31 West 34th Street. The Uniqlo Fifth Avenue store and the Uniqlo 34th Street site will be the second and third locations in the United States following the opening of Uniqlo on Broadway in Manhattan’s Soho neighborhood in 2006.

NEW YORK, NY - October 28, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- One of the largest U.S. hotel investment sales conducted this year shows investor confidence and a healthy competitive appetite still exist for core product in major hotel markets, as evidenced with the closing of the Paramount Hotel in Manhattan. Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels completed the transaction on behalf of Walton Street Capital and Highgate Holdings and sold the 597-room property to RFR Holding.

NEW YORK, NY - October 28, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle has completed the sale of Peck Slip Station, 1 Peck Slip, on behalf of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to the New York City School Construction Authority for $13.5 million.

NEW YORK, NY - October 26, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- On behalf of the owners of One Madison Park, FKF Madison Group Owner LLC and its affiliated debtors (collectively, the “Debtors”), Jones Lang LaSalle today announced the firm’s special asset services experts have been hired to solicit competing proposals to reorganize the Debtors under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code.

NEW YORK, NY - October 25, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Although not the main driver of Manhattan’s office market recovery that began in mid-2010, Jones Lang LaSalle’s Report found that the resurgence of the high-tech industry has made a substantial contribution. After a significant decrease in 2009 caused by the economic downturn, high-tech employment has been consistently increasing every quarter and creating new office space demand. The growth has been concentrated in Midtown South, which has the lowest vacancy rate in Manhattan at 6.7 percent.

New York, NY - October 25, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Rose Associates announced today that Ace Hardware has leased 8,100 square feet at 312-316 First Avenue in Manhattan, a retail space at Peter Cooper Village/Stuyvesant Town. The store, slated to open in early 2012, will be the third Ace Hardware location of H.Brickman & Sons, a family-owned business that has been in operation for more than 90 years.

New York, NY - October 24, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Rose Associates announced today that it has closed a $125 million loan funded by the issuance of bonds provided by the New York State Housing Finance Agency for the development of a luxury apartment building. Wells Fargo provided the credit enhancement for the bonds. The loan will facilitate the construction of The Larstrand, a development of New York City-based Friedland Properties. Of the Larstrand’s 181 apartments, 37 will be designated as affordable housing.

Fairfield, NJ - October 24, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- David Landau & Associates, LLC, a leading provider of advisory services to private equity, hedge funds, REITs and other public and private real estate and financial services firms, announced that Michael Sullivan has joined the firm as a managing director.

NEW YORK, NY - October 14, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle announced that Michael Bosco has been appointed to serve a one-year term as a member of the New York City Buildings Sustainability Board. He serves as portfolio energy manager with the company’s Energy and Sustainability Services (ESS) group.

NEW YORK, NY - October 14, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle was selected as exclusive office leasing agent for 1140 Avenue of the Americas. The company will be responsible for commercial leasing and marketing efforts for the newly renovated, Class A, boutique, 250,000-square-foot office building.

NEW YORK, NY - October 10, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle announced that despite slower leasing volume over the summer, vacancy rates have fallen in Manhattan in all office building classes and every submarket in the third quarter of 2011. Higher prices for the city’s trophy office buildings fueled a boost in overall and Class A average asking rental rates in Midtown and Downtown office product, while Midtown South office buildings saw rates remain stable.

NEW YORK, NY - October 4, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle reported in its summer 2011 Skyline Review that demand for New York trophy office properties remains strong and steady despite continued economic uncertainty and volatility in the stock market. Manhattan has seen average asking rental rates for tower floors at the city’s prime addresses rise faster than any other segment of the market.

New York, NY - September 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Rose Associates, Inc. has announced that Spirit Halloween recently leased 17,000 square feet of retail space at Chelsea Landmark, the luxury rental property located on Sixth Avenue between 25th and 26th Streets in Manhattan. The short-term lease will allow Spirit Halloween to market its costumes and accessories through the Halloween season.

NEW YORK, NY - September 21, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Orange Regional Medical Center has completed and opened its new replacement hospital in the Town of Wallkill in Middletown, N.Y. Jones Lang LaSalle's Project and Development Services (PDS) group served as project manager for the 621,000-square-foot, $270 million hospital project starting in the summer of 2007.

NEW YORK, NY - September 16, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle was selected by Princeton International Properties Corp. as exclusive leasing agent for 150 East 52nd Street, also known as Tower 52. The company will be responsible for commercial leasing and marketing efforts for the Class A, 300,000-square-foot office building.

NEW YORK, NY - September 15, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle today announced the firm’s Capital Markets experts have closed the sale of 5000 Corporate Court in suburban New York for Piedmont Office Realty Trust. An institutional investor purchased the Class A Suffolk County office property for $39,250,000.

NEW YORK, NY - September 14, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Empire State Building has been awarded LEED® Gold for Existing Buildings certification as further recognition from the $550 million Empire State ReBuilding program. The Empire State Building is the tallest and most well known building in the U.S. to receive LEED certification.

Firm served as project manager for the Chinese news agency’s new North American headquarters facility NEW YORK, , NY - September 8, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle has completed the interior build-out for Xinhua News Agency’s new North American headquarters on the top floor of 1540 Broadway. The Chinese news agency leased 18,500 square feet on the 44th floor of the 1.1 million-square-foot, Class A office building in mid-2010.

NEW YORK, NY - September 7, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle represented the Greater New York Councils, Boy Scouts of America, in an agreement with The Trust for Public Land to permanently protect the William H. Pouch Scout Camp on Staten Island. The GNYC entered into an agreement with TPL that will result in the preservation of 94 acres from development through a two-phase plan that includes the purchase of a large portion of the site.

New York, NY - September 7, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Rose Associates, Inc., the New York-based full-service real estate firm, has hired Lisa Bulloch-Jones as director of corporate marketing. In this position, she will oversee all marketing initiatives for the company, including communications, branding, corporate advertising and public relations.

NEW YORK, NY - August 31, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle data demonstrates the groundwork has been laid for Lower Manhattan’s next great transformation 10 years past the September 11 tragedy. Having weathered a volatile economy and ongoing cycles of recovery, rebuilding and consolidation, Lower Manhattan is poised to capture demand not witnessed since the beginning of the previous century. According to Jones Lang LaSalle’s report, “Lower Manhattan 10 Years Later,” although the historic district remains the home of Wall Street, local government, professional services, media and technology firms will occupy a greater share of Lower Manhattan office space going forward.

NEW YORK, NY - August 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Children’s Museum of the Arts (CMA) will open its new, expanded space at 103 Charlton Street on Oct. 1, 2011. The 10,000-square-foot former loading dock, located in the Hudson Square neighborhood west of SoHo, will triple the museum’s size and enable it to dramatically expand its arts programming.

New York , NY - August 18, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Rose Associates, Inc. recently signed a 15-year lease with Potbelly at the Metropolis, a property located at 150 East 44th Street in Manhattan. The popular sandwich maker is now open and operating in the 2,462-square-foot space, which was formerly occupied by Benvenuto Café and is adjacent to a Chipotle restaurant.

NEW YORK, NY - August 9, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle has completed a lease renewal and expansion for ABN AMRO Holdings USA LLC with SL Green Realty Corp. at 100 Park Avenue. The bank signed an 11-year lease for a total of 32,259 square feet at the 825,815-square-foot, Class A office building.

CHICAGO, IL - July 28, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels today reported that the volume of hotel investment transactions that closed in the Americas market in the first six months of 2011 reached $7.4 billion—a robust increase of approximately 180 percent on the same prior-year period. The numbers represent preliminary totals from Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels’ Hotel Investment Highlights Americas report due to be released later this month. The firm’s research tracks hotel asset transactions in excess of $10 million, and excludes note sales, recapitalizations and foreclosures.