Listen to this articleThe Federal Aviation Administration has leased 74,679 square feet of office space at One Old Country Road in Carle Place.
The agency will relocate its administrative headquarters from its present location at One Aviation Plaza in Jamaica to the Carle Place office property, where it will occupy about one-and-a-half floors.
After a three-year search, complicated by the COVID pandemic, the FAA and its brokers from CBRE had identified several properties where it could relocate before the agency chose the Carle Place building.
The 320,000-square-foot office building at One Old Country Road was totally revamped between 2020 and 2021 with a $14 million renovation project that was assisted by economic incentives from the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency. After Garden City-based DBD Realty Group purchased the property for $26.5 million in Feb. 2020, it has since installed new windows, updated the elevators, HVAC systems and the cafeteria of the five-story building. Conference rooms that can accommodate up to 40 people were also added and its rehabbed parking garage is now equipped with EV charging stations.
The building is currently undergoing the LEED certification process with the U.S. Green Building Council.
Vincent LaManna, Richard Freel, Maria Kobe and Ralph Giuffre of CBRE represented the FAA, while Kelly Koukou of Lee & Associates represented the landlord, DBD Realty Group, in the lease transaction.
It’s expected the FAA will begin occupying the new offices in Q3 2025, according to Koukou, who serves as the property’s exclusive leasing agent.
