ABOUT COMMERCIAL AGENT Chase Welles

Chase Welles is one of New Yorks preeminent commercial real estate brokers. Hes helped tenants and landlords succeed here since 1984, shaping the citys retail landscape with game-changing lease transactions for such tenants as Whole Foods, Costco, Staples, and Williams-Sonoma. A 2016 Commercial Observer Elite Power 100 member and seven-time Real Estate Board of New Yorks Retail Deal of the Year nominee, three-time winnerhe is often quoted in the Wall Street Journal and other press on a variety of commercial real estate topics. He is a former chair of the REBNY retail committee.

Chase joined Northwest Atlantic (now TSCG) in 1997 to work on the Costco account. He arranged three land purchases in Manhattan and subsequently sold all three for over a million square feet of FAR. Additionally, he was a part of the team that finally arranged the Costco lease at 116th Street and The FDR drive.

Other notable lease transactions include nine Whole Foods in Manhattan, and two in Brooklyn, eight in New Jersey. Chase was responsible for 19 Staples Manhattan leases. He completed a 150,000 square feet deal for Williams Sonoma in DUMBO Brooklyn. From 2004-2007, Chase closed over 100 Washington Mutual leases in New York City.

In addition to his award-winning tenant representation, Chase represents several major NYC developments including Brooklyns ground-breaking Industry City.

Active in the commercial real estate community, Chase has served as Chairperson of the Real Estate Boards Retail Committee and now serves on the Real Estate Board of New Yorks general meeting committee.

A graduate of Columbia University, he is fluent in French, conversational Russian, and has brought several European retailers to the United States.