- March 28, 2024
Loading
The 36-story SunTrust Financial Centre in downtown Tampa has been subject to a few changes lately, not unlike the colors of its electronically lit cupola in the night skyline.
For starters, an adjustment has been made to the Australian half of the joint venture that has owned the 527,000-square-foot building for the last three years. Macquarie Group Ltd., which partnered on the $114.5 million purchase with Fort Lauderdale-based Stiles Corp., transferred its real estate assets to Charter Hall Group earlier this year.
Coinciding with that transaction is the hiring of Jones Lang LaSalle as the leasing agency for the SunTrust building, replacing Cushman & Wakefield. Sharon Bragg, a local office leasing veteran most recently associated with Crescent Resources' Corporate Center Four building in Westshore, will take over those duties June 1. The tower is currently 90% occupied.
“It is an amazing opportunity that just doesn't come around often,” Bragg tells Coffee Talk. “With an all-new team, we have the opportunity to view the building with fresh eyes and make sure that it continues to live up to its premier status.”
SunTrust Financial Centre, which opened in 1992 at 401 E. Jackson St., is Tampa's fourth-largest office tower and has SunTrust Bank, law firm Akerman Senterfitt and container shipper Hapag-Lloyd as its largest tenants. It was named “Outstanding Building of the Year” for 2010 by the local chapter of the Building Owners and Managers Association.