Bridgeport, CT Avison Young, the world’s fastest-growing commercial real estate services firm, and the new owners of 1000 Lafayette Boulevard, Shelbourne Global Solutions, LLC, signed a new lease for another legal tenant, Connecticut Legal Services, at the class A office building that is now home to more than a half dozen top law firms and other legal tenants. 

Avison Young’s Fairfield/Westchester office was named exclusive agent at the property last summer. Sean Cahill, principal and managing director and vice president Lori Baker, were tasked with marketing the 11-story, 215,000 s/f, class A office building, located in the heart of the central business district.

Connecticut Legal Services, the largest legal aid agency in the state, is the latest law firm to join the growing list of tenants at the property. Connecticut Legal Services signed a long-term lease for 4,800 s/f on the ninth floor of 1000 Lafayette Blvd. DH White Real Estate Services represented the tenant in the deal. 

Similarly, the law firm of Zeldes Needle Cooper, P.C. (ZNC), a 30-year tenant at 1000 Lafayette, and one of the region’s leading law firms providing transactional and litigation counsel to clients ranging from individual entrepreneurs to publicly traded companies, relocated within the building to nearly 16,000 s/f; a newly built space on the seventh floor of the property.

“Shelbourne has assembled a great team for our building, which is exactly what a class A property such as 1000 Lafayette deserves,” said Maximino Medina, Jr., a managing partner of Zeldes Needle Cooper, P.C.

Other legal tenants include the Offices of the United States Attorneys, AHC Law, and Ryan, Ryan Deluca, which signed a new long-term lease for 12,351 s/f on the eighth floor of 1000 Lafayette in the spring.