Career Management Firm OKs Long-Term Pact

AUSTIN-Bernard Haldane Associates of New York City has leased 3,075 sf at the class A 100 Congress Ave. in Austin’s CBD. The career management firm is moving from 98 San Jacinto St., also a class A holding in the CBD.

The firm signed a long-term lease in a plan to occupy Oct. 1. Russell Young of Austin’s Commercial Texas LLC represented the tenant. Young tells GlobeSt.com that his client wanted the more “prominent exposure” that 100 Congress offers. The building is “very well located” and “attractive from an amenity standpoint,” he adds. Bernard Haldane has 78 offices in the US and United Kingdom.

The 100 Congress is a 411,536-sf office building owned by Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. John Baird of Dallas-based Lincoln Property Co.’s Austin office represented the building owner. The building, constructed in 1987, currently is 80% occupied. The annual quoted rate is $24 per sf.