Damianos signs Farrell Fritz, boosting occupancy at its newest office building

Long Island Business News - November 10, 2026

After acquiring an office property from RXR last year, Damianos Realty Group (DRG) has also just taken one of RXR’s major law firm tenants. 

Farrell Fritz, a long-time tenant at RXR Plaza, has signed a lease for 48,201 square feet at 50 Charles Lindbergh Blvd. in Uniondale, where it will occupy the entire third floor beginning next summer. 

The law firm has been a tenant at RXR Plaza for more than three decades, beginning not long after the two-tower property, then known as EAB Plaza, was developed. It currently leases about 45,000 square feet at the trophy office asset, with a lease that expires in August 2027. 

Farrell Fritz is also a tenant at the Damianos property at 100 Motor Parkway in Hauppauge. The law firm has other offices in Water Mill, Manhattan and Albany, according to its website. 

Farrell Fritz managing partner Robert Creighton said the firm’s decision to leave RXR Plaza was not made lightly. 

“We have had a very positive experience at this building and with RXR as a landlord.  However, as we thought about our needs for the coming decades, we wanted to design space suited to our future needs and we did not want to live through construction in our existing space,” Creighton told LIBN. “We have had terrific experience with Damianos as our landlord at our Hauppauge office and we expect that they will execute a very comprehensive plan to ensure the 50 Charles Lindbergh Boulevard will be a Class A office building for decades to come. We know, too, that the space will be built to our specifications and will incorporate technologies that will work well for us for years to come as we continue to grow the firm.” 

Smithtown-based DRG purchased the six-story, 240,000-square-foot building on 9.1 acres at 50 Charles Lindbergh Blvd. from RXR in Oct. 2025. The land the building sits on is owned by Nassau County and the sale involved transferring the ground lease that RXR had with the county. The building was only about half occupied at the time of the acquisition, when company principal Cris Damianos unveiled extensive renovation plans that included a redesign of the lobby, hallways, restrooms and amenity spaces including the conference facility, fitness center and café. 

With the new Farrell Fritz lease, occupancy at the Uniondale office building climbs to nearly 80 percent. 

While RXR has been shedding many of its Long Island office properties over the last several years, DRG has been growing its Long Island office portfolio over the last decade, continuing its strategy of acquiring and adding value to previously underperforming office assets. Today, the family-run real estate firm owns more than 28 Long Island properties totaling more than 1.5 million square feet dominated by office and medical office assets, with properties in Babylon, Center Moriches, Commack, Hauppauge, Islandia, Lake Grove, Patchogue, Port Jefferson Station, Setauket, Shirley, Smithtown, Stony Brook and Uniondale. 

Founded in 1976, Farrell Fritz has more than 90 attorneys specializing in a variety of disciplines, including real estate, land use, bankruptcy and restructuring, commercial litigation, insurance, labor and employment, trust and estates, property tax certiorari, healthcare, nonprofit, and many others, according to its website. 

Jim Wenk and Brad Wolk of Savills represented Farrell Fritz, while John Finn, DRG’s director of Leasing & Acquisitions, served as in-house representative for the landlord in the Uniondale lease transaction. 

By David Winzelberg