Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Jones Lang LaSalle


Audit overseers triple office space

The agency that oversees the auditing practices of public companies is expanding its offices. The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, a nonprofit created as part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, has tripled the size of its space at 1251 Sixth Ave., between West 49th and 50th streets.

The board signed an eight-and-a-half-year sublease for 33,000 square feet, or the entire 16th floor. The asking rents in the 54-story building, whose largest tenant is Deutsche Bank, range from the mid-$40s to $75 a square foot for top floors.

"We looked at other buildings, but this was the best and most viable option," says Michael Liss, a senior associate at the Trammell Crow Co., which represented the tenant.

Studley represented the sublessor, CDC Ixis, a subsidiary of the French banking concern Groupe Caisse d'Epargne.

--Julie Satow