Lease roundup: Doronin’s OKO opening Wynwood office, PwC moving to Boca Raton

OKO Group | Miami

Billionaire developer Vlad Doronin’s OKO Group plans an office at the Wynwood Plaza mixed-use development.

OKO Group leased 25,200 square feet at 95 Northwest 29th Street in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood, according to a Cushman & Wakefield second quarter office report. JLL’s second quarter report also confirmed the deal, but did not provide the square footage leased.

OKO partnered with London-based Cain International to co-develop the 830 Brickell office tower in Miami’s Brickell, completing it last year. The firm’s website lists its current Miami office at 4100 Northeast Second Avenue in the Miami Design District.

OKO Group’s spokesperson declined to comment, including on whether the firm will close the Miami Design District office.

Oak Row Equities, L&L Holding Company, Shorenstein and Claure Group developed the 1 million-square-foot Wynwood Plaza with a 12-story, 266,000-square-foot office building and a 12-story, 509-unit apartment building with 45,000 square feet of amenities. Wynwood Plaza also has a 26,000-square-foot public plaza and 25,000 square feet of retail.

PwC | Boca Raton

PricewaterhouseCoopers, a global accounting, finance, assurance and tax services firm, will move its downtown West Palm Beach office to Boca Raton.

PwC leased 11,100 square feet at 5100 Town Center Circle, where it will move in the spring, according to a company spokesperson. The firm now is in a 3,300-square-foot office at Related Ross’ two-tower Phillips Point office complex at 777 South Flagler Drive.

PwC’s move to a bigger space is partly geared to future employment growth and collaboration among its South Florida workforce. About half of its 900 South Florida employees live in the northern areas of the tri-county region, and the Boca Raton office will serve as a more centrally located hub, closer to many staff members’ homes.

PwC’s other South Florida office is at the 545Wyn building at 545 Northwest 26th Street in Miami’s Wynwood. The firm is keeping this office.

Macquarie Capital | Principal Finance, a division of Sydney, Australia-based Macquarie Group, and Chicago-based Vanderbilt Office Properties own the 5100 Town Center Circle building. The joint venture paid $95.4 million for this building and the six-story building at 5200 Town Center Circle in 2022.

Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak | Coral Gables

Law firm Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak will open its first South Florida office in Coral Gables.

Holtzman Vogel, a litigation, political and regulatory law firm, leased 6,400 square feet at the Ryder Colonnade building at 2333 Ponce de Leon Boulevard, according to a news release from the tenant’s broker.

Stephen Rutchik of Colliers represented Holtzman Vogel, and Ryan Holtzman of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord.

The law firm is expected to open the office late this year or early next year, according to Rutchik.

Founded by Jill Holtzman Vogel, the law firm’s only existing Florida office is in Tallahassee. The firm is based in Washington D.C. and also has offices in Buffalo, New York; Phoenix; Salt Lake City; Nashville, Tennessee and Haymarket, Virginia.

The 11-story, 205,500-square-foot office building was previously called Colonnade. Its name was updated when logistics firm Ryder System moved its headquarters there last year. Boston-based AEW Capital Management owns the building.

MyBambu | West Palm Beach

Financial technology firm MyBambu expanded its headquarters in West Palm Beach.

MyBambu, which serves Latinos with direct money transfers to Latin America, leased 35,000 square feet at 2751 South Dixie Highway at The Press mixed-use complex in West Palm, according to the tenant’s broker’s news release.

Michael Wernick and Lawrence Epstein were part of the Savills team that represented MyBambu.

Founded in 2016 by Doug Quay, MyBambu is a neobank that offers deposit accounts and Visa cards. It moved its headquarters from Memphis, Tennessee to a 6,500-square-foot space at 221 Clematis Street in downtown West Palm in 2021, according to nonprofit tech publication Refresh Miami and a news release from the Business Development Board of Palm Beach County. The firm has 160 current employees, with plans to expand to 350.

Miami-based Tricera Capital redeveloped the former Palm Beach Post campus into The Press, retrofitting the printing press and distribution facility into the Shops at The Press, and the office building that was already on the site into Workspaces at The Press.

In August, Boca Raton-based Pebb Capital and Irvine, California-based Sabal Investment Holdings bought The Press and an adjacent lot from Tricera for $53 million, records show. As a whole, the buyers plan to spend $80 million on the purchase and capital improvements, they said in an August news release.

Lily’s Handmade Ice Cream | North Miami Beach

The Gilinsky family is expanding its ice cream shop to North Miami Beach.

Lily’s Handmade Ice Cream will open a 1,050-square-foot shop at 14871 Biscayne Boulevard in the Biscayne Commons shopping plaza, according to the tenant’s news release. The store will open on Aug. 8.

Lily’s was started by Ronen Gilinsky and his sons, Ori and Tal Gilinsky, in 2020, opening its first outpost at 4900 Linton Boulevard in Delray Beach. The ice cream shop also is opening soon in Boynton Beach at 3837 West Woolbright Road, according to Lily’s website.

Records show Columbia, South Carolina-based Edens owns Biscayne Commons.

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