Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) announces 265,000 square feet of office leases on behalf of Deluxe Corp.–a global technology and fintech company–in Minneapolis and Atlanta. Deluxe Corp. signed a 94,000-square-foot headquarters lease in the connected 801 Marquette and 121 South Eighth buildings in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company will occupy the two top floors of 801 Marquette and one floor in 121 South Eighth. In Atlanta, Deluxe Corp. signed a 171,000-square-foot lease for a FinTech and Customer Innovation Center at Glenridge Highlands II (5565 Glenridge Connector) in Atlanta, Georgia.
The tenant advisory team of NKF’s Jim Damiani, CCIM, SIOR;Ryan Bohrer and Andrew Commers and Maura Carland represented Deluxe Corp. in its Minneapolis headquarters lease and cooperated with Colliers’ Pete Shelton, Bob Ward, and Drew Levinefor the Atlanta lease. NKF Managing Director Steve Shepherd, SIOR represented Deluxe Corp. in the sale of its former Shoreview headquarters property.
“We are honored to be the trusted real estate partner of Deluxe and to be a part of their organizational and workplace transformation,” said Bohrer. “Our entire NKFteam of brokers, financial analysts, location strategy/labor analytics and economic incentives advisors all played key roles in providing Deluxe with the client service that our firm promises and delivers.Deluxe’smajor announcements in Minneapolis and Atlanta during these uncertain times prove DLX is committed to another 105 years of transformingenterprises, small business and financial institutions.”
With the direction and oversight of Doug Woodley, Deluxe’s Vice President of Real Estate and Enterprises Services, NKF’s Dan Foster, Brooke Perez, and Daniel Oneyof the firm’s Global Corporate Services (GCS) group conducted an extensive national site selection process and portfolio analysis. In this process,the team examined Deluxe’s entire real estate portfolio, operational platforms by business unit, talent availability, workforce needs and overall costs as part of the ‘One Deluxe’ corporate strategy. An outcome of this analysis was to determine optimal locations for the hub business units and supporting functions.
“Deluxe Corp.’s downtown relocation in Minneapolis and establishment of a new office location in Atlanta is a vote of confidence in the office market overall and for both cities,” said Damiani.“Completingthis transaction is a reflection of the hard work, cooperation and commitment to community fromDeluxe and all parties involved. Deluxe Corp. is a nimble company in the changing world of finance and we are proud to work alongside them in real estate endeavors.”
NKF’s financial analysis experts Romel Canete and Daniel Keegan played an integral role in supporting Deluxe Corp.’s real estate, finance and tax teams in considering numerous complex finance and tax implications for the publicly traded company’s headquarter sale, new headquarter lease and FinTech hub space.
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