Houston trial firm Yetter Coleman is trading up in a big way downtown, nearly doubling its office footprint with a roughly 44,000-square-foot sublease at the JPMorgan Chase & Co. Tower. The boutique is taking over the 53rd and 54th floors at 600 Travis Street, a jump from its current roughly 25,000-square-foot space at 811 Main. The move gives the firm contiguous, move-in-ready space in the heart of Houston's central business district as it continues to grow.
The deal
As reported by Bisnow, CBRE represented Yetter Coleman in the transaction, with executive vice president Jon Lee and Claire Douthit named in the release. CBRE also negotiated a direct extension with the landlord, which gives the firm room to expand later without having to fund an expensive build-out from scratch.
Broker's take
Opportunities like this are not exactly growing on trees in downtown Houston, at least according to the people cutting the deals. Jon Lee of CBRE said, "Opportunities like this are increasingly rare in Houston’s central business district," in the release cited by Bisnow. The brokerage also pointed out that the space is already built out for a law firm, which trims Yetter Coleman's timeline to get up and running on the new floors.
About the tower
The 75-story JPMorgan Chase Tower, with about 1.7 million rentable square feet, was completed in 1982 and underwent a renovation in 2022 during Hines and Cerberus' stewardship, according to Hines. It remains the tallest completed tower in Texas and has been repositioned in recent years with refreshed lobbies, upgraded tenant amenities and a new conference center.
Market context
Yetter Coleman's expansion is landing at a time when downtown Houston's much-discussed "flight to quality" is keeping demand tight for move-in-ready trophy space. One example, corporate firm Skadden signed a 52,000-square-foot lease at nearby Texas Tower in 2025, pushing that building toward full occupancy, as reported by REBusinessOnline. Brokers say limited new construction and a scramble for modern, fully built space are giving existing top-tier towers plenty of leverage at the negotiating table.
What this means for Yetter Coleman
The bigger, stacked floors in the Chase Tower put Yetter Coleman closer to major corporate clients and the courts while creating room for additional hiring and more elaborate courtroom support operations. The firm previously shifted downtown into a roughly 24,500-square-foot floor at 811 Main in 2018, according to the Houston Chronicle, and the new sublease marks a significant footprint increase for the litigation-focused boutique.
