{"id":1020731,"date":"2026-08-24T10:09:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T10:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1020731\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T10:09:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T10:09:16","slug":"circle-realty-secures-38k-sf-of-new-leases-at-14-penn-plaza-commercial-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1020731\/","title":{"rendered":"Circle Realty Secures 38K SF of New Leases at 14 Penn Plaza \u2013 Commercial Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/circle-realty-group\/\" title=\"Circle Realty Group\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Circle Realty Group<\/a><\/b> has closed on 37,600 square feet of new leases in Midtown, Commercial Observer has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The two largest deals at <b>225 West 34th Street<\/b>, also known as <b>14 Penn Plaza<\/b>, were for civil engineering company <b><a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/bohler-engineering\/\" title=\"Bohler Engineering\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bohler Engineering<\/a><\/b>, which expanded from 8,000 square feet to 14,000 square feet, and cybersecurity firm <b><a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/tm-usa\/\" title=\"T&amp;M USA\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">T&amp;M USA<\/a><\/b>, which took 14,000 square feet, according to Circle Realty.<\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2026\/08\/whole-foods-509-third-avenue-lease\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Whole Foods to Open Daily Shop at Murray Hill\u2019s 509 Third Avenue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bohler signed a 10-year lease and asking rent in the building was $67 per square foot. The length of T&amp;M\u2019s lease was unclear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese tenants came to me because we\u2019re at the center of transportation and we have a first-class property,\u201d Circle Realty President <b>Jay Futersak <\/b>told CO. \u201cTenants know that what we promised is what we deliver.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Futersak represented his own firm in-house and both tenants in the deals.<\/p>\n<p>Smaller recent deals in the building were for accounting and advisory firm <b>Calibre CPA<\/b> <b>Group<\/b>, which signed a 10-year, 6,100-square-foot lease and is relocating from<b> 462 Seventh Avenue<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Mark Furst <\/b>and<b> Benjamin Saftler<\/b> of <b>Kaufman Leasing<\/b>, the brokerage arm of the <b><a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/kaufman-organization\/\" title=\"Kaufman Organization\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kaufman Organization<\/a><\/b>, handled the deal for the Washington, D.C.-based accounting firm and did not immediately comment.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, discrimination law firm <b><a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/fitapelli-schaffer\/\" title=\"Fitapelli &amp; Schaffer\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fitapelli &amp; Schaffer<\/a><\/b> is also relocating from <b>20 Liberty Street <\/b>to 14 Penn with a new 3,514-square-foot lease.<\/p>\n<p><b>Robert Gallucci<\/b> of <b><a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/colliers\/\" title=\"Colliers\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colliers<\/a><\/b> negotiated on behalf of the law firm and did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Futersak repped ownership in-house in the Calibre and Fitapelli deals.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Hallum can be reached at <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2026\/08\/circle-realty-leases-14-penn-plaza-bohler-engineering\/mailto:mhallum@commercialobserver.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mhallum@commercialobserver.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Circle Realty Group has closed on 37,600 square feet of new leases in Midtown, Commercial Observer has learned.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1020732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[408419,408420,5229,408421,408422,7745,408423,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,49428,408424,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1020731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-14-penn-plaza","tag-225-west-34th-street","tag-america","tag-benjamin-saftler","tag-jay-futersak","tag-leases","tag-mark-furst","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-office-leases","tag-robert-gallucci-channel","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117149942887598176","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1020732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}