Hunter retained for Staten Island office project

Real Estate Weekly, Nov 14, 2001

Serving as Owner's Representative for Zim-American Israeli Shipping Co., which included the relocation of 250 people on Sept. 5 from the 16th floor of the World Trade Center to newly built headquarters in Norfolk, VA, Hunter Management has now been retained to implement the build-out of a 5,000-SF office in Staten Island for the 35 staff members who remained in the New York offices and escaped the Sept. 11 attack, announces James Pirot, principal of Hunter Management Corp.

The New York staff, which comprises the shipping company's Northern District Sales & Marketing Department, will move into its new offices at the Nicotra Group Development Complex in Staten Island in early January 2002. The department was originally slated to occupy a portion of Zim-American's 45,000-SF office at the World Trade Center, and the balance of the space was to be subleased.

Since the attack, the group has been located in the company's Elizabeth, N.J. offices.

Zim-American has taken a ten-year lease at the Staten Island office, which was negotiated by Hunter Management.