Partners land exclusive for 475,000 s/f Calif. tower.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif: JRT Realty Group, Inc., along with its strategic partner Cushman & Wakefield, has been appointed as the exclusive leasing agent for Embarcadero Center West, 275 Battery Street in San Francisco.

The 475,138 s/f Class A building, owned by TIAA-CREF is adjacent to the four-building, 3 million square-foot mixed-use Embarcadero Center. The 30-story building, currently 85 percent leased, is located in the heart of San Francisco's financial district and has blue chip tenants such as O'Melveny & Myers, Gordon & Rees, Leiff, Cabraser, Heimann, & Bernstein LLP and Chubb Insurance.

Through an alliance with Cushman & Wakefield, JRT provides leasing and asset management services for a portion of TIAA-CREF's national portfolio, totaling more than 100 buildings and over 11 million square feet of office and industrial space.

Greg Smith, executive vice president of JRT Realty, Christopher T. Roeder and Zach Siegel, both senior directors of Cushman & Wakefield, will represent ownership as leasing agent.

"We are extremely excited to be working with TIAA-CREF on a top tier San Francisco asset with such an excellent tenant roster. This will turn out to be a very successful building for the new ownership," said Christopher T. Roeder of Cushman & Wakefield.

TIAA-CREF is a national financial services organization with more than $370 billion in combined assets under management and the leading provider of retirement services in the academic, research, medical and cultural fields. It is also one of the largest institutional real estate investors with a $59 billion global real estate portfolio.