Related Ross, a developer based in West Palm Beach, has appointed Duncan McCuaig as executive vice president of office leasing. The move comes as the company seeks to fill more than 3.8 million square feet of office space that is either completed or under development.
McCuaig previously spent two decades at Brookfield Properties in New York City and became the firm’s head of leasing in 2023, according to Commercial Observer. While at Brookfield, he played a key role in bringing major tenants to properties such as One and Two Manhattan West in Hudson Yards. His clients included law firms Skadden and Cravath, consulting companies EY, KPMG and Accenture, the National Hockey League, hedge fund D.E. Shaw, Amazon, Citadel, JP Morgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley—securing a 1.3 million-square-foot lease for the latter at One New York Plaza in 2019.
In his new position at Related Ross—a South Florida-focused spinoff of Hudson Yards developer Related Companies led by billionaire Steve Ross—McCuaig will oversee leasing for several buildings: 360 Rosemary, One Flagler, 15 CityPlace, 10 CityPlace, CityPlace Tower, Esperanté Corporate Center, Phillips Point, 515 Fern and 477 Rosemary.
Recent leases signed by Related Ross include Wells Fargo’s plan to move its wealth management headquarters to One Flagler with a 50,000-square-foot agreement. Other tenants added are ServiceNow, Cleveland Clinic and Roger Ferris + Partners from the architecture sector; financial institutions such as Citizens Bank, JP Morgan Private Wealth Management and Metropolitan Commercial Bank have also committed to space.
Steve Ross has publicly stated his goal of turning West Palm Beach into “the Silicon Valley of the future.” As part of this initiative he donated $50 million toward Vanderbilt University’s planned business and technology graduate campus in West Palm Beach—a project moving forward after an initial round of fundraising.
