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EMMES Realty Services of California LLC Announces CPC Strategy Expanding into Three Full Floors at Downtown High-Rise 707 Broadway

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Innovative Companies Continue to Expand Their Urban Footprint
SAN DIEGO, CA–(Marketwired – October 04, 2017) – As downtown San Diego is becoming synonymous with innovation and entrepreneurship, creative companies continue to expand their urban footprint. One of them is digital marketing and retail solutions firm CPC Strategy, which recently signed a lease to expand onto another full floor at 707 Broadway. CPC Strategy will now occupy three full floors of the high-rise, with a total of 27,445 rentable square feet.”Working downtown has been a huge asset to both our culture and our recruiting initiatives. From a culture perspective, the downtown area offers a variety of offsite team-building options in walking distance,” said Brianne Kennedy, human resources director at CPC Strategy. “Teams can go see a movie at Horton Plaza, catch a game at Petco Park, or easily coordinate a group lunch or happy hour. It’s also close to public transportation, which has been huge when we have team builds like our Day at the Races up in Del Mar. From a talent acquisition perspective, it has greatly contributed to the success of our recruitment marketing and has proved to simplify the interview process for candidates who are considering relocation to San Diego.”CPC, which relocated from Mission Valley to downtown in 2016, currently has 112 employees and plans to add 60 new office seats with the additional floor. About 25% of the company’s staff lives in or around downtown and many employees stay downtown after work to enjoy the different activities and restaurants in the area. CPC employees also frequently take advantage of the 707 gym and the local discounts offered through the EMMES Advantage Program.

Home to many creative companies, the 18-story 707 office building is known as the workplace of the future, with many millennial-attracting amenities, such as a basement game room and fitness center, a “bark park,” a ground floor with an upgraded patio and lobby, a trendy sandwich shop, 30 electric vehicle charging stations, bike storage space in the garage, healthy vending, upgraded conference room, and techno-art murals.

“We are delighted that companies such as CPC are making downtown their home,” said Mark Kuske, EMMES asset manager. “We hope to continue to attract and foster a creative workforce at 707, as well as our other downtown buildings in an effort to fuel the innovation economy.”

About EMMES

EMMES Realty Services of California LLC is a member of The EMMES Group of Companies. Founded in 1992, with offices in New York and California, The EMMES Group of Companies and its affiliates are engaged in principal real estate investments, funds management and real estate services. The downtown San Diego EMMES portfolio is comprised of four high-rise office properties: 1 Columbia Place, 2 Columbia Place, 701 B Street, and 707 Broadway, along with a large parking and retail facility, which was recently rebranded to 6th & A Parking. For more information, visit www.emmesco.com .

EMMES Realty Services Signs Multiple Floor Lease for Growing Video Game Developer Psyonix

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1 Columbia Place — Downtown San Diego’s Innovation Hub Attracting High-Tech Firms

SAN DIEGO, CA— EMMES Realty Services of California LLC announced a multiple floor lease today with a high-tech tenant who will be relocating and expanding to its 1 Columbia Place property in downtown San Diego.

The tenant, highly respected video game development studio Psyonix, will be expanding within the downtown EMMES portfolio from a 9,000 square-foot office space at 707 Broadway to a 40,000 square-foot office at 1 Columbia Place. Psyonix, which was represented by Jordan Williams of Strom Commercial for its new lease, will occupy two contiguous floors in the high-rise section of the 27-story building. Psyonix’s expansion highlights both the flexibility within the downtown EMMES portfolio to accommodate significant tenant growth and downtown San Diego’s continued attractiveness to growing, innovative companies, which are capitalizing on the area’s rich amenity base and deep talent pool.

“We are thrilled for Psyonix’s success and for its continued growth within the downtown EMMES portfolio,” said Jordan Johnson, vice president of EMMES Realty Services of California LLC. “Downtown San Diego has arrived as a dynamic hub for innovation-oriented companies and EMMES is working hard to design, upgrade and improve our buildings to fit today’s innovation companies’ cultures and needs.”

Johnson added that this includes superior technology infrastructure such as enhanced Wi-Fi coupled with a Building-Wide Fiber Optic Network, as well as amenities such as expansive terraces with hotel-style lounge seating, in-building retail shops and restaurants, banking, multiple state-of-the-art building conference/meeting rooms, an indoor cycling studio, secure tenant bike storage, as well as shower and locker facilities.

Psyonix — best known for the commercial success of its video game, Rocket League®, which has sold more than 8 million copies to date — relocated from North Carolina to San Diego in 2009 and has grown exponentially ever since.

“We have experienced tremendous growth since the launch of Rocket League® in July of 2015. The game’s huge success with more than 22 million players is a big reason why we’re moving into the new office space,” said Dave Hagewood, Psyonix founder, CEO and studio director. “We needed a fantastic modern location like 1 Columbia Place that could better accommodate our increasing team size and loftier goals.”

Hagewood added that the game studio’s prime location downtown will also attract more creative talent to Psyonix.

“The spectacular views, proximity to quality restaurants, and beautiful architecture at 1 Columbia Place are all amazing values for us,” Hagewood said. “San Diego is also an excellent alternative to other large cities in general because of its close proximity to great beaches and family entertainment. There’s definitely a beach vibe all over town, which is perfect for our company culture and mindset.”

About EMMES

EMMES Realty Services of California LLC is a member of The EMMES Group of Companies. Founded in 1992, with offices in New York and California, The EMMES Group of Companies and its affiliates are engaged in principal real estate investments, funds management and real estate services. The downtown San Diego EMMES portfolio is comprised of four high-rise office properties: 1 Columbia Place, 2 Columbia Place, 701 B Street, and 707 Broadway, along with a large parking and retail facility, which was recently rebranded to 6th & A Parking. For more information, visit www.emmesco.com.

About Psyonix

Based in San Diego, CA, Psyonix is a critically-acclaimed independent video game developer and leading expert in Unreal Engine technology. For more than a decade, the studio has been a driving force behind some of the most successful games in the industry, including Gears of War, Mass Effect 3, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Bulletstorm, Unreal Tournament III, Unreal Tournament 2004, and the award-winning Sports-Action hit, Rocket League®. For more information, visit www.psyonix.com.

Trump must not ignore small and mid-sized tech firms

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Co and ghost wrote an OpEd for Kevin Carroll, Executive Director of Tech San Diego for the San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 18, 2107

During a tech summit meeting in December 2016, President-elect Donald Trump pledged his aid in helping top technology executives continue to innovate. It’s alarming, however, that no one sitting at the table represented the heart of the American tech industry — small and midsized companies. Even Twitter was left out, because the social media trailblazer was deemed “too small.”

While Trump himself promised to do “anything we can” to help the tech industry, he must keep in mind that the core of innovation comes from smaller businesses as well, not just from the Silicon Valley elite. If innovation is truly going to be one of this administration’s key pillars, these innovators must have a voice.

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Philanthropy’s role in clean energy economy

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Co and ghost-wrote an OpEd piece for Christian Braemer, co-founder of Benefunder for the San Diego Union Tribune, Dec. 4, 2015

America has come a long way in clean energy — thanks in part to government intervention, big risk-taking entrepreneurs, technological advances and early adopters — but we still have far to go. Today only 10 percent of our energy in the United States comes from renewable sources, a far cry from other leading countries like Denmark and Sweden, which are above 40 percent renewable power on their electric grid and moving toward an aggressive 100 percent; and Germany, which produces 30 percent of its electricity from renewable energy sources.

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Changing philanthropy landscape to fill innovation deficit

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Co and ghost wrote an OpEd for Benefunder co-founder Christian Braemer for the San Diego Union Tribune, Nov. 29, 2014.

While some nonprofits are working toward a “cure” for many diseases, most of the money donated to these charities does not go toward actual research. Why not create a solution that allows more money to directly flow to researchers and less for overhead and other expenses? Wouldn’t it be more impactful to give that money to a researcher who is working on possible treatments for things like breast cancer, chronic pain, heart failure, strokes, and heart attacks?

Consider this: Over half of all wealth created in the United States since World War II can be directly attributed to university research. Technologies like Internet protocol, MRI, lasers, Google, silicon chips and countless lifesaving medicines were all born out of academic labs.

Today, however, the widening gap between available funding for research and the demand for those funds not only threaten American competitiveness, but also our health, economy, security, and overall well-being. These innovations are crucial to economic growth as new companies and industries are born, creating jobs, cures, and treatments.

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