It is a pleasure to provide the most outstanding reference I can for both Tim and his firm, who have represented us since 1988, in one capacity or another. Please feel free to call me directly at 412-681-7930.

A. Richard Nerberg
President and CEO

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Grant Street Associates, Inc. has represented us for over five years and recently completed two lease transactions in DDI Plaza One. We are pleased with their efforts and results in getting DDI Plaza back to 100% occupancy.

Raymond H. Goodrich
Treasurer

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I wanted to personally say thank you for all of your hard work on this deal (Snap Fitness, Greengage East -Greensburg, PA). There were a lot of exceptions that came along with this deal and I thought you did a fantastic job of handling them and communicating them with your client. I certainly hope that THF proved that we were an easy company to deal with and hope to do more deals with you in the future.

Keep up the great work and once again, if you ever need anything from me in the Pittsburgh market, don't hesitate to call.

Best Regards,

Bill Drumm
Leasing Agent

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Leedsworld, Inc.

Leedsworld, Inc., one of the top-five suppliers of promotional products and advertising specialties in North America, recently retained the services of Grant Street Associates - Cushman & Wakefield for the purpose of handling Tenant's Representation for our operational expansion. I am pleased to say that Grant Street Associates exceeded our expectations.

Leed's selected Grant Street Associates based on their reputation in the community, their knowledge of the real estate market both locally and regionally and their affiliation with Cushman & Wakefield, whose Consulting unit guided our site selection process. They presented us not only with options in Western Pennsylvania, where we are headquartered, but also coordinated with their Alliance partners in Ohio and with their broker network in Central Pa., West Virginia and Maryland to provide us with an extensive selection of buildings from which to choose.

From start to finish, Grant Street Associates' professionalism in providing clear and honest assessments of the advantages and disadvantages for each possible property enabled us to simplify a complicated assignment. Their coordination of pertinent information, as well as their ability to negotiate with public and private entities involved, further revealed their level of expertise and integrity. As a result, Leed's obtained the best possible location for our needs at an attractive lease rate.

I will recommend Grant Street Associates as a provider of commercial real estate services in the Pittsburgh area. If I may answer any particular questions, please feel free to contact me at (724) 334-9000.

Sincerely,

Jim Epstein
Chief Development Officer

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In early 2001, we contracted your services to review options available to us relative to our desire to lease approximately 16,000 square feet in the City of Pittsburgh. Your team was selected based on the talent and professionalism you exhibited during negotiations against some of our previous lease renewals. Besides the identified buildings we jointly decided to review your team continued to inform us of other opportunities that arose over the 9 months we spent finalizing our decision and negotiation the contract for office space in Horizon Center.

Your knowledge of the office market industry and the people working in it was very a valuable resource. Your honest assessments of the various facilities, offers presented, and quick counter proposals really kept us on schedule and focused on the end product. Your implementation of the final negotiating strategy delivered real dollar value for our lease term.

James W. Boyd
President

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Jim Dawson, Rob Geiger, Tim Goetz and Jack O'Donoghue embody what we would consider to be the best characteristics of model leasing agents. They truly represent their client in their endeavors. They have shown a unique attention to detail and a thorough knowledge of the market. However, their greatest strength is in the service that they provide to their client.

We in the Corporate Real Estate area of Mellon Financial Corporation are extremely pleased with the relationship that continues to exist between our firms in this contract agreement.

A. Dana Garcia
Former Vice President

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Grant Street represents us on all of our Pittsburgh properties and has done so since the formation of their company in 1993. I can say without any hesitation or qualification that Grant Street is at the top of the list as the finest brokerage firm in Pittsburgh. They have always been able to go the extra distance to ensure us every opportunity at landing the deal. They also stick with it until the deal is done. The second, is their professionalism. In a business where many are willing to compromise ethics, whether it be for or against their clients, the partners at Grant Street have always shown themselves to be unwilling to take anything but the "straight" path. It is because of this that Grant Street maintains an unparalleled reputation among the brokerage community and a major reason why our company values its relationship with them.

Aaron D Stauber
Director of Real Estate

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Turner Construction Company

I am pleased to say that Grant Street Associates did a tremendous job from start to finish and that I would highly recommend them.

I found their reputation in the community and knowledge of the local real estate market to be unmatched by any local or national firm. We were expeditiously shown several buildings that met our needs and [Grant Street] provided a very honest assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of each, which helped streamline our already ambitious office search schedule. Numbers were presented in a clear format taking into account any variations that I may expect, which provided me with a very useful document to present to our corporate office for final approval of capital allocations.

Being an individual with a significant amount of construction and office build-out experience I was skeptical that any realtor could bring any added value to my search for office space, but Grant Street Associates proved me wrong. Grant Street Associates provided an enormous amount of expertise in local market knowledge, furniture products, moving, contract leases and operating expenses. Several individuals in the Grant Street Associates' office were always available to support my needs along the way from building search to move in.

Joe Milicia Jr.
Vice President & General Manager

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