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Novak and Damond of CPEX Real Estate Office Sales & Leasing Team lead team in 3,410 s/f

Brooklyn, NY The CPEX Real Estate Office Sales & Leasing Team has completed a lease agreement to relocate New York City Explorers, a child care collective, to Fort Greene.

Rich Novak,
CPEX Real Estate

 

Gina Damond,
CPEX Real Estate

 

New York City Explorers will occupy 3,410 s/f across the ground floor and lower level at 36 Saint Felix St., a 6,260 s/f mixed-use property between Fulton St. and Dekalb Ave. 

CPEX’s Office Sales & Leasing Team, led by managing director Rich Novak and associate director Gina Damond, represented the landlord and procured the tenant. 

Currently operating out of 1,300 s/f downtown, the added space will allow New York City Explorers to serve a greater number of children and families with its preschool, universal pre-kindergarten, child care, and afterschool programming. 

New York City Explorers has also been featured in The New York Times and Crain’s New York Business for its unique co-working model that provides child care services for parents using its shared workspace.

“This was a perfect match between the space and use,” said Novak. “Its location in a diverse community, steps from Fort Greene Park and the Brooklyn Cultural District, makes it an ideal place for New York City Explorers to expand their services and continue growing alongside the Fort Greene community.”

CPEX Real Estate provides a full range of transactional services for both real estate and business owners, including sales, leasing, acquisitions, and advisory. CPEX takes a team-based approach in which each of our skilled teams specializes in one particular property type covering a specific market in the greater New York metropolitan area. Since being founded in 2008 by Brian Leary and Timothy King, CPEX has completed over 550 assignments totaling over nine million s/f and $2.5 billion in aggregate value. 

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