{"id":258265,"date":"2026-05-04T21:03:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/258265\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T21:03:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:03:45","slug":"software-firm-found-liable-for-fraud-lists-189k-sf-broward-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/258265\/","title":{"rendered":"Software Firm Found Liable For Fraud Lists 189K SF Broward Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A global software and development company based in Sunrise is\u00a0seeking takers for a the 189K SF office building it purchased in 2021 after being ordered to\u00a0pay customers $500K\u00a0in\u00a0a\u00a0fraud lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/placeholder.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Placeholder\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n      1500 Concord Terrace in Sunrise\n    <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Chetu Inc.\u00a0has\u00a0tapped an\u00a0<a class=\"tag tag-333\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/avison-young\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"333\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Avison Young<\/a>\u00a0team of\u00a0Justin Cope, Greg Martin and Lisa Blumer to market its headquarters at 1500 Concord Terrace in Sunrise, Bisnow has learned.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The company occupies a full, 36K SF floor in the five-story office, built in 1995 within the 22-acre Sawgrass International Corporate Park, according to\u00a0a listing on LoopNet. The other four floors have been vacant since at least 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;1500 Concord presents a unique opportunity to occupy an entire building in one of the country\u2019s most robust business ecosystems,\u201d Cope said in a statement. The owner currently occupies a full floor space but is open to relocation if a full-building tenant is interested.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The\u00a0entire space is described as fully built out and available immediately.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The office space, an eight-minute drive to Sawgrass Mills, is being marketed for about $30 per SF on a triple-net basis, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/images1.loopnet.com\/d2\/2QJNV1wiFzQtNsaUbvn_ds8q0BN1GNFNjpIPQhagfRA\/1500%20Concord%20%202026.pdf?_gl=1*k8ntez*_gcl_au*MzI4NjQ0NTIzLjE3Nzc5MDM4OTY.*_ga*MTYwNjY4MjcuMTc3NzkwMzg5Ng..*_ga_2DVXTE8M0Q*czE3Nzc5MjAwMTckbzIkZzEkdDE3Nzc5MjAwNDIkajM1JGwwJGgw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a marketing brochure<\/a>. The building also has a 7,500 SF data center on the first floor.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Chetu and Avison Young didn&#8217;t respond to requests for comment. The move-out was revealed in a <a class=\"tag tag-133979\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/newmark\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"133979\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Newmark<\/a> first-quarter office report.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Bansi Properties, the development company led by Chetu CEO Atal Bansal, paid $25M for the\u00a0building in 2021, according to Broward County\u00a0property records.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">At the time, Chetu, which\u00a0provides custom software for businesses, planned to anchor the building and lease out any remaining square footage to other tenants, <a href=\"https:\/\/therealdeal.com\/miami\/2021\/06\/18\/software-firm-chetu-buys-sunrise-office-property-for-25m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Real Deal reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Next\u00a0to 1500 Concord Terrace, Bansi Properties planned to build a 140K SF, four-story office building with completion set for 2023,\u00a0according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bansiproperties.com\/news\/bansi-properties-announces-new-building-and-office-campus.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a release<\/a> on the real estate company&#8217;s website. Bansi described itself in the 2021 release as\u00a0\u201cSouth Florida\u2019s premier commercial real estate developer,\u201d despite having been founded in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Chetu had developed\u00a0its 63K SF, three-story\u00a0headquarters in Plantation\u00a0and just delivered it in 2019 but said in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chetu.com\/news\/chetu-announces-office-relocation-to-sunrise-amid-growth.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a 2021 release<\/a>\u00a0that its \u201cunprecedented growth has already necessitated a larger venue.\u201d Bansi\u00a0inked\u00a0the IRS\u00a0to a 15-year lease at the building for the agency&#8217;s\u00a0Broward County office.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It is unclear\u00a0where Chetu \u2014 which also has seven offices in the U.S., one office in Europe and three offices in Asia, according to its website \u2014\u00a0has moved its headquarters.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The company, which did not respond to requests for comment, has been caught up in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/investigations\/fast-growing-sunrise-software-company-buffeted-by-lawsuits-complaints\/2911788\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">litigation with unhappy customers<\/a>\u00a0since 2022.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Chetu was ordered to pay more than $500K in October, including punitive damages, to a barbershop chain in Washington state after being accused of a \u201cbait and switch\u201d scheme by promising functional software and not delivering on it while continuing to charge fees, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/investigations\/sunrise-software-company-defrauded-and-hoodwinked-client-federal-judge-finds\/3700697\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBC6 South Florida reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A district court judge wrote in a 72-page opinion following a three-day bench trial that Chetu \u201cdefrauded and hoodwinked\u201d its customer to the tune of $145K.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Chetu appealed the decision in January, arguing that it wasn&#8217;t given a chance to make an oral argument, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The addition of Chetu&#8217;s 189K SF building drove net absorption levels into the negatives in the Broward County office market for the first time since 2022, according to Newmark.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In the first quarter, companies\u00a0emptied 162K SF more office space than they moved into, and the vacancy rate was 18.5%, according to the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A global software and development company based in Sunrise is\u00a0seeking takers for a the 189K SF office building&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[111957,111955,46796,111956,111954,1618,249,251,250,71033,45058],"class_list":["post-258265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-1500-concord-terrace","tag-atal-bansal","tag-avison-young","tag-bansi-properties","tag-chetu","tag-fla","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-newmark","tag-sunrise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}