CBRE gets to art of the DaVinci deal at Pratt Institute.DaVinci & Co. Artists' Supplies, a joint venture of the Manhattan-based book store Shakespeare & Co. and Kevin Lavin, general manager of prominent art supplier PEARL Paint, has committed to 2,860 square feet of retail and 800 square feet of lower level space at 138 West 14th Street, Pratt Institute's Manhattan Campus. The CB Richard Ellis CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. NYSE: CBG is a multinational real estate corporation currently based in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.. On December 20, 2006, the corporation, also known as CBRE, completed acquisition of Trammell Crow Co. in a transaction valued at $2. Tri-State Retail Services team of Eric Gelber and Joshua Gettler represented both the tenant and The Pratt Institute Pratt Institute, at Brooklyn, N.Y.; coeducational; chartered and opened 1887. Founded by Charles Pratt as a school for practical training, it now offers general and professional studies, including programs in fine arts, art education, art history, library and in the 16-year transaction. The ground-floor space at 138 West 14th Street represents DaVinci & Co.'s first New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. retail location. The independent retailer will be actively merchandising art supplies to area customers as well as the 4,400 students attending the Pratt Institute, the largest school of its kind. "DaVinci & Co. is an outstanding tenant for The Pratt Institute," noted Mr. Gelber. "It is not only a wonderful addition to the exciting 14th Street retail corridor and the surrounding areas of Greenwich Village Greenwich Village (grĕn`ĭch), residential district of lower Manhattan, New York City, extending S from 14th St. to Houston St. and W from Washington Square to the Hudson River. and Chelsea, but is also an ideal enhancement to the school's existing student services and amenities." "The retail space at Pratt Institute presented us with the perfect opportunity to make our first foray into Verb 1. foray into - enter someone else's territory and take spoils; "The pirates raided the coastal villages regularly" raid encroach upon, intrude on, obtrude upon, invade - to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate; "This new colleague invades my the market," said Mr. Lavin. "We are extremely thrilled with the central location the space provides as well as the prospect of serving the students and the existing customer base in one of the Manhattan's most vibrant and dynamic neighborhoods." Internationally recognized for its excellence, The Pratt Institute is comprised of the schools for Art and Design, Architecture, Liberal Arts liberal arts, term originally used to designate the arts or studies suited to freemen. It was applied in the Middle Ages to seven branches of learning, the trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, and the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. , and Information and Library Sciences. |
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