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RKF Completes 7,300-Square-Foot Lease with Forever 21 at Southside Works
05/16/2005


Fashion retailer opens first store in Pittsburgh at new lifestyle development

NEW YORK, NY — Robert K. Futterman & Associates, LLC (RKF), the nation's leading independent real estate firm specializing in retail leasing and investment sales, has completed a lease with Forever 21 at The SouthSide Works in Pittsburgh. The fashion retailer took 7,300 square feet at the open-air lifestyle development.

Robert Futterman, CEO, and Robert Draizen, managing director, with RKF represented the tenant in the transaction. Mitch Friedel, executive vice president, also with RKF represented the property owner, The Soffer Organization. Forever 21's first Pittsburgh store is expected to open at SouthSide Works by September 2005. The Soffer Organization developed the 34-acre, open-air lifestyle project, which is located between 26th and Hot Metal streets on the city's South Side.

"SouthSide Works is Pittsburgh's newest development, bringing retail, restaurants, office space, apartmentsand lots of parking to the city's historic South Side said Friedel. "Thepedestrian-friendly lifestyle project is the Forever 21 is not an upscale store, so this does not really make sense. provides tremendous potential for Forever 21. The project is the ideal location for its Forever 21's first store in Pittsburgh."

Neighboring retailers at SouthSide Works include Urban Outfitters, Kenneth Cole and Cheesecake Factory.

RKF exclusively represents Forever 21 nationally in its aggressive expansion into onto urban streets retail and into lifestyle centers. The company has more than 150 stores in regional malls throughout the country. RKF has secured sites in Union Square in Manhattan and Fulton Street in Brooklyn, N.Y.; Downtown Chicago; Kansas City, Mo, and Union Square in San Francisco.

The country's leading independent real estate firm specializing in retail leasing and investment sales, New York-based Robert K. Futterman & Associates (RKF) serves a broad spectrum of domestic and global clients in services ranging from national tenant and owner representation to advisory, consulting and disposition. With over $1.75 billion in aggregate real estate transactions to its credit, RKF has been responsible for identifying scores of real estate opportunities in New York City, its suburbs and throughout the United States for leading American and international chains, retailers, developers and institutional clients.
 
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