HOUSTON – (Realty News Report) –The law firm that anchors the newest office tower in Downtown Houston has leased another floor in the Norton Rose Fulbright Tower.
Norton Rose Fulbright relocated to its new Houston headquarters in June 2024, initially occupying floors 20 through 26. The firm is now adding an additional floor totaling 21,000 SF.
New Skyscraper is Now 70% leased
The expansion brings the 28-story Norton Rose Fulbright Tower to approximately 70% leased.
Developed by Skanska, the 387,000-SF office tower, is located across the street from the Discovery Green park.
“Norton Rose Fulbright has been integral to the vision of this building since day one,” said Matt Damborsky, executive vice president for Skanska USA Commercial Development in Houston. “We look forward to seeing how they bring the next phase of their vision to life.”
The new space increases the global law firm’s lease to eight floors and a total of 139,000 SF.
The law firm previously engaged the Rottet Studio design firm for the initial build-out of its Houston headquarters and plans to partner with the Houston-based studio again for the additional office space.
Other new tenants in the tower include Third Coast, a Houston-based energy infrastructure company; the move-in of Hicks Johnson, a litigation boutique; and the mid-October opening of Zaranda, a new restaurant by Houston chef Hugo Ortega.
Ortega’s 7,000-SF restaurant, designed by Houston-based Gin Design Group, has seating for 180 indoors and 50 outdoors. Zaranda’s menu is rooted in the concept of “Las Californias”—a term once used to describe the unified region stretching from Northern California to Baja.
Before Norton Rose Fulbright became the anchor tenant, the building was called 1500 on The Green. 1550 on the Green is the first phase of Skanska’s plan for Discovery West, a three-building campus on 3.5 acres of downtown land purchased in 2019.
The tower, 1550 Lamar Street, was designed by an architecture firm named Bjarke Ingels Group – also called BIG, is based in Copenhagen. The project, which began in 2021, is BIG’s first tower in Texas. Austin-based Michael Hsu Office of Architecture designed the interior and amenity spaces.
Oct. 29, 2025 Realty News Report Copyright 2025
Image: courtesy Skanska
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