GVA Advantis and GVA Williams Negotiate 7,678 SF Lease for Wolters Kluwer Company

Tampa - GVA Advantis and GVA Williams, partners in GVA Worldwide, have negotiated a new 7678-square foot, long-term lease for CCH Incorporated, a Wolters Kluwer business, at the Towers at Westshore I in Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida.

Director of Office Services Paula Buffa, CCIM and Associate Lauren Geller, both of GVA Advantis in Tampa, and Mark Friedman of GVA Williams in New York, negotiated the transaction on behalf of the tenant, CCH Incorporated. A business of Wolters Kluwer, CCH Incorporated is a provider of information services, software and workflow tools for tax, accounting, legal and business professionals and is headquartered in Riverwoods, Illinois (www.cch.com).

“We are happy to see Wolters Kluwer, through its CCH Incorporated division, enter the Tampa Bay market,” says Buffa.

The Towers at Westshore I is an eight-story, 101,626-square foot office building in the Westshore Business District. Located at 1410 North Westshore Boulevard, the building is one of two corporate towers connected by an enclosed glass atrium and is owned by Edgewood General Partnership. Situated one mile from Tampa International Airport, the property was built in 1978 and renovated in 2004.

GVA Advantis is a full-service real estate firm that leases, manages and sells office, industrial, retail and other commercial real estate properties and sites. The company also provides tenant representation, corporate real estate, construction and project management services. GVA Advantis employs approximately 400 people, leases and manages more than 35 million square feet of commercial facilities, and had an annual transaction volume of approximately $2.1 billion in 2006. Including its headquarters in Atlanta, the company has 15 regional offices throughout the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. For more information, please visit gvaadvantis.com.

GVA Williams is the third-party brokerage and management division of Williams Real Estate Co. Inc., which has been in business since 1926. The company is a leading provider of specialized realty services, including leasing, property management, investment advisory services, development, construction management, mortgage brokerage, tenant representation and institutional management. GVA Williams, a founding partner of GVA Worldwide Ltd., has offices in midtown and downtown Manhattan, as well as in New Jersey, Boston, Connecticut and downtown and suburban Chicago. For more information, please visit gvawilliams.com.

GVA Worldwide is an international organization of real estate industry leaders serving key markets in 20 countries. The organization comprises more than 3,500 real estate professionals in 90 markets worldwide. In 2006, GVA Worldwide partners collectively completed $26.5 billion in transactions and managed more than 150 million square feet of office, industrial, retail and specialized property.