Real Estate Watch: Drafters dodge to Union Square site; Architects at Mancini Duffy fed up with downtown after WTC attack.(Pioneer Realty buys vintage loft building and Athena Group moves to oust pizzeria from Liberty Warehouse)(Brief Article)

Crain's New York Business, December, 2001 by Croghan, Lore

Mancini duffy is relocating to Union Square. The architecture firm, whose office at 2 World Trade Center was destroyed on Sept. 11, signed a 10-year lease for 25,000 square feet at 39 W. 13th St. The asking rent was in the low $40s per square foot. The space, formerly occupied by staffing-software firm Opus360 Corp., is fully built-out and has phones and furniture.

Having endured the bombing of the trade center in 1993 as well as the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, Mancini Duffy executives refused to rent a new office downtown. They wanted to be in the midtown south area-somewhere interesting where architectural firms congregate and convenient to transportation hubs, says the firm's tenant broker, Brian Waterman, a principal at Newmark & Co. Real Estate Inc....

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