AvocatGroup

We help corporations make smarter real estate decisions.

[AvocatGroup @AvocatGroup]

A strong way to close out Q2!

Avocat Group was proud to receive two CoStar Power Broker Awards for the second quarter, recognizing our work on both the largest office lease and the largest industrial lease completed in the Tampa/St. Petersburg market.

Those two projects were certainly highlights, but they were also part of a much broader quarter of work across office & industrial relocations, renewals, and long-term planning projects for the tenants and buyers we represent.

Each assignment had its own priorities, timing, challenges, and business goals. The common thread was helping our clients make real estate decisions that supported where their businesses are headed, while creating leverage and savings along the way.

None of this happens without great clients who trust us to help them navigate important decisions for their businesses. We are grateful for that trust and for the partners who helped keep these projects moving forward.

We’re proud of our team and the results, and grateful for the opportunity to keep helping the tenants and buyers we represent make smarter real estate decisions and create meaningful savings along the way.

Thank you to everyone involved, and to @CoStarGroup for the recognition.

[AvocatGroup @AvocatGroup]

Avocat Group recently completed an office renewal project in Tampa's Westshore submarket. Congrats, Tim Hurless, for leading this project!

The goal was to evaluate the path forward and make sure the space continued to support the team, their customers, and the next chapter of the business.

Westshore remains one of Tampa’s most active office corridors, and even with office vacancy recently reported in the mid-teens, the right building, timing, terms, and long-term fit still matter.

Renewals can look straightforward from the outside, but ensuring a fair deal still requires market knowledge, preparation, and a clear understanding of what the business is trying to accomplish.

A special thank you to Tripp Guin in Charlotte for trusting us with the relationship here in Tampa. We appreciate the partnership and the opportunity to help carry the project forward locally.

[AvocatGroup @AvocatGroup]

Right now, our team is helping clients with active projects across the country, from Phoenix to Dallas, Kent, Washington to Tampa, and many places in between.

Each project has its own market dynamics, property type, timeline, and business need, but the starting point is always the same:

What is the business trying to accomplish, and how should the real estate support that vision?

That is where our ClarityKit™ tools help bring structure to the process.

Whether a company is evaluating an office lease, industrial facility, warehouse, land site, or data center project, the goal is to create alignment early, compare the right options, and make decisions with clarity.

We are proud to support tenants and buyers wherever their business takes them.

If your company has a real estate decision coming up, Avocat Group can help you think through it, wherever that project happens to be.

[AvocatGroup @AvocatGroup]

Today, we pause to remember and honor. 🇺🇸

On this Memorial Day, Avocat Group pays tribute to the brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to their country. Their courage and dedication will never be forgotten.

To the fallen heroes and their families: thank you. 🙏🏻

[AvocatGroup @AvocatGroup]

Real estate decisions get harder when they start too late.

As a lease expiration gets closer, options narrow. Leverage fades. The “easy” renewal can quickly become the only realistic path.

That is why we built ClarityKit™ to help companies get aligned early.

Three tools work together at the front end of a project:

Real Estate Pathfinder™ helps evaluate the big-picture paths: renew, relocate, expand, buy, build, or other alternatives.

Project Compass™ defines what success looks like, including the physical, image, location, economic, and strategic requirements that matter most.

Site Analyzer™ scores real market options against those requirements, so teams focus only on spaces that actually fit.

The goal is simple: Start earlier. Create better options. Make smarter decisions.

If your company has a lease expiration or real estate decision on the horizon, we would be happy to talk through how ClarityKit™ can help. DM us for the free links.

[AvocatGroup @AvocatGroup]

Avocat represented a longtime client on a new lease for approximately 10,000 SF of office space.

This was a special one for our team. We’ve had the privilege of representing this client for more than 20 years, and we’re grateful for the continued trust.

Like every project, we started by looking at what the space needed to do for the business, then analyzed renewal vs. relocation options to help align the real estate with the company’s long-term goals.

The result: an economic savings package of approximately $1.12 million, including free rent, tenant improvement dollars, and long-term rent savings.

Proud of the outcome and even more appreciative of the relationship.

Real estate is never just about space. It’s about making the right decision for the business.

[AvocatGroup @AvocatGroup]

20 years of excellence. 20 years of leadership. 20 years of Matt. 🎉

Belated happy birthday to Matt Sultenfuss, and congratulations on 20 incredible years with Avocat Group.

Your expertise, leadership, and dedication continue to shape our team, clients, and culture!

[AvocatGroup @AvocatGroup]

Great things happen when great people share what they know.

Congratulations to Matt Sultenfuss for being named a Top LinkedIn Influencer in Commercial Real Estate by CREi Summit!

What makes this recognition so meaningful is what it represents: a commitment to showing up, adding value, and making the commercial real estate community stronger for everyone in it.

At Avocat Group, we believe real estate is ultimately about people. Matt embodies that every day, and we're grateful to celebrate this milestone alongside him.

We're proud of you, Matt! 🎉

[AvocatGroup @AvocatGroup]

Wishing you and your loved ones a joyful day filled with peace, hope, and renewed spirit.

From all of us at Avocat Group, have a blessed and beautiful Easter. 🐣

[AvocatGroup @AvocatGroup]

Proud moment for the Avocat Group team! 🎉

Congratulations to Victoria Pereiro, Matt Sultenfuss, and Tim Hurless, on earning CoStar Power Broker recognition for Q4 2025 in the industrial sector.

What makes this especially meaningful for us is that every transaction behind this recognition was completed exclusively on behalf of tenants and buyers. Our team is built around representing occupiers only, without taking landlord listings, so our focus stays fully aligned with the companies we serve.

To be recognized among the top brokers in the market while staying true to that model says a lot about the strength of tenant representation when it’s done with discipline and purpose.

Well deserved, and grateful for the clients who trust us to advocate for their best interests every step of the way.

#CoStarPowerBroker

[AvocatGroup @AvocatGroup]

Valentine’s Day reminder: don’t fall in love with the first space that flirts back. 💘

A lease is a multi-year commitment, with real money hiding in the terms, not the tour. When you go in solo, it’s easy to end up with higher rates, vague language, and “standard” clauses that quietly shift risk to you.

With tenant representation, you’re not just shopping, you’re negotiating from leverage:

- market-backed rate + comps
- incentives/TI + free rent structured correctly
- clear, protective language (CAM, options, restoration, assignment, etc.)

Choose better. Happy Valentine’s Day. 💙

[Mr.DataCenters™ @MrDataCenters]

If you’re deciding whether @DataCenterWorld is worth the trip, here’s the simplest way I think about it:

2026 is the year where power, timelines, and rack density stop being “planning variables” and become the limiting factors for growth.

The value of DCW gives you an opportunity to get in the same conversations as the people actually solving (or running into) the constraints: utility coordination, campus expansion, AI-ready design, retrofits, procurement, and delivery timelines.

We’ll be there in Washington, D.C. (April 20–23, 2026), and if you’re planning to attend, you can lock in $300 off your conference pass with promo code MRDATACENTERS.

[AvocatGroup @AvocatGroup]

This helps explain why commercial builders are increasingly “hungry” for data centers (big, complex, power-heavy projects) while other categories cool.

In 2026, what’s the bigger bottleneck for your next site: power, or the physical inputs that carry power (transformers/switchgear/copper)?

[AvocatGroup @AvocatGroup]

Every time someone says “we just need another 50MW,” I picture the other line item no one put on the slide: copper.

A typical data center can consume ~27 metric tons of copper per MW across power distribution, cabling, and cooling. Scale that to a 1GW campus and you’re talking about a material footprint that starts to look like an infrastructure program and not a construction project.

[AvocatGroup @AvocatGroup]

BHP’s view is directionally blunt: copper used in data centers could rise ~6x from 2025 to 2050, and they flag a world where only ~70% of 2035 copper demand is met under current trajectories. The AI buildout is becoming a supply-chain and power problem as much as a “who has GPUs?” problem.

[AvocatGroup @AvocatGroup]

But the tradeoffs are real:

→ You’re swapping “grid uncertainty” for fuel / supply chain / permitting / environmental complexity
→ You inherit operational responsibility for a mini-power plant (reliability, redundancy, maintenance, compliance)
→ And if you don’t design for flexibility, you can end up with stranded load or stranded generation

Power has moved from a line item to the first screen, and BTM is what happens when the first screen fails.

[AvocatGroup @AvocatGroup]

“Skipping the grid” is starting to look less like a fringe tactic and more like a default development strategy.

Per Cleanview’s project tracker, developers announced 48 GW of behind-the-meter (BTM) data center projects in 2025—and ~33% of planned capacity is now expected to come from BTM sites.

[AvocatGroup @AvocatGroup]

That’s a big signal about what’s actually broken in the market: BTM isnabout de-risking timelines when interconnection queues, upgrade scope, and utility sequencing become the schedule killer.

[AvocatGroup @AvocatGroup]

"100 GW/year of satellite data centers in space” is the kind of sentence that makes every power planner on Earth sit up a little straighter.

Here’s the real question. What’s harder: getting compute into orbit, or running it like a data center should be run?

Because in space, the boring stuff gets spicy fast:
✔️ Launch cadence & mass budgets
✔️ Heat rejection (radiators are your new chillers)
✔️ Radiation/SEUs & maintenance
✔️ Bandwidth back to Earth (and who owns the spectrum)
✔️ Orbital debris, insurance, and regulation

It’s a wild idea… but the direction is real that when grids can’t deliver, builders start looking for “power” in unconventional places.

[Tesla Owners Silicon Valley @teslaownersSV]

Imagine deploying 100 gigawatts per year of satellite data centers in space.

That future might be closer than we think.

[AvocatGroup @AvocatGroup]

Meanwhile, on Earth, “power-first” site strategy is still the gating factor for the next wave of AI capacity. The market is short on deliverable megawatts on a real timeline, not capital or demand.

[AvocatGroup @AvocatGroup]

Space is about to become the newest zoning board.

SpaceX applying to launch up to 1,000,000 satellites for “orbital data centers” is a loud signal that the AI power crunch is forcing everyone to redraw the map, including the map above our heads.

[AvocatGroup @AvocatGroup]

You swap permitting for launch cadence.

You swap substations for spacecraft thermal engineering.

You swap NIMBYs for debris risk, collision risk, and spectrum coordination.

You swap power bills for mass-to-orbit economics and serviceability.