Antares establishes 26,000 s/f Stamford center.

Antares Investment Partners, LLC, a real estate development and management firm founded ten years ago in Greenwich, is expanding its operations into Stamford by leasing 26,541 s/f at the Stamford Harbor Park office complex.

The company will maintain a significant presence in Greenwich by retaining its fully staffed financial investment division at 52 Mason Street. The company's Greenwich contingent also includes' on-site management teams in Greenwich at the Greenwich Place and Greenwich Oaks, two luxury residential complexes purchased by Antares in February in one of the largest real estate transactions in state history.

In addition to housing a number of corporate activities, Antares' Stamford office will also serve as the base of operations for a project team undertaking the 82-acre, $2 billion master-planned development of Stamford's South End, one of the most extensive development projects now underway in the United States.

"Antares is proud to retain our historic commitment to Greenwich," said James P. Cabrera, principal of Antares. "At the same time, our additional office in Stamford reinforces our belief in the promising future of the city's South End."

"Antares will now house a large portion of our operations in Stamford," said Antares principal Joseph Beninati. "At the same time, we will keep our vibrant investment group in Greenwich, where Antares is undertaking two major condominium conversions and where additional luxury residential development is now underway."

Antares will sublease the entire, 26,541 s/f eighth floor of the north tower of Stamford Harbor Park, a 400,000 s/f premier office complex on Stamford Harbor. The company will sublease space from Nyfix, a technology firm, for an eight-and-a-half-year period. Ted Lane, Antares' senior vice president of acquisitions and leasing, represented Antares in the transaction, which takes effect October 1.

"This is one of the largest office leases in Stamford this year, and the additional space will accommodate the firm's significant growth," said Lane. "The new Antares operations center is situated in a prestigious office building located on the Stamford waterfront, a district that itself will soon be transformed by the Antares redevelopment initiative."

Antares officials noted that two internationally recognized firms, Cooper, Robertson & Partners of New York and Sasaki Associates Inc. of Boston, were recently chosen as the South End project's master planners.