Three companies have signed on to join anchor tenant Wolverine Worldwide as tenants at 10 CityPoint, Boston Properties’ new office and restaurant complex under construction in Waltham.

The 230,000-square-foot complex is fetching the some of the highest rents in the Boston suburbs since the recession, with asking rents topping $50 per foot gross, according to commercial brokers.

Data storage provider Infinidat will move its U.S. headquarters to a 23,000-square-foot suite at 10 CityPoint in June, spokeswoman Beth Bryant said, consolidating and expanding from 5,900 square feet at 35 Highland Circle in Needham and 201 Jones Road in Waltham.

The expansion is driven by increased demand for its InfiniBox enterprise storage product, Bryant said. Infinidat was founded in 2010 by Moshe Yanai, an Israeli-born electrical engineer and former high-level EMC executive. It obtained a $150 million investment in April from private equity firm TPG Growth, bringing its valuation to an estimated $1.2 billion. The company also has offices in Colorado and California.

Venture capital firm J.W. Childs, which currently has offices at 1000 Winter St. in Boston Properties’ Bay Colony office park on the west side of Route 128, leased 11,500 square feet at CityPoint, according to a real estate source. Through a spokesman J.W. Childs declined to comment.

And CYS Investments, a specialty finance company currently located at 890 Winter St., leased 15,000 square feet at 10 CityPoint.

Shoe manufacturer Wolverine Worldwide, which is the parent of the Sperry, Saucony, Keds and Stride Rite brands, leased 150,000 square feet at 10 CityPoint last summer, prompting Boston Properties to kick off construction of the 230,000-square-foot complex. Wolverine will relocate from 191 Spring St. in Lexington, part of Boston Properties’ three-building Spring Street office park. Bonefish Grill and Posto pizzeria signed the first two ground-floor retail leases.

10 CityPoint Lands Billion-Dollar Data Company

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