Market Stat: Center City Office Rent Growth Outpaces Manhattan, Downtown Boston and the District of Columbia on a Year-Over-Year Basis The Central Business Districts of global gateway markets such as New York, Washington, D.C., and Boston, have long been perceived as the powerhouses for office rent growth in the Northeastern U.S. But that dynamic appears… Read more »
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Philadelphia’s Unemployment Rate Falls to 30-Year Low
CoStar Market Insights: Tight Labor Market Favors Apartment Rent Growth, but Limits Office Tenant Expansions After another month of job growth, Philadelphia’s economy has reached an important milestone. The metro area’s unemployment rate fell to 3.1% in May, the lowest level of unemployment recorded in Philadelphia since the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) began publishing… Read more »
Corporate Downsizings Are Causing Available Office Space to Accumulate in Philly’s Northern Suburbs
CoStar Market Insights: Office Availabilities Reach 10-Year High in Philadelphia’s Horsham/Willow Grove Submarket The share of Horsham/Willow Grove’s office stock listed as available for lease rose to 15% last quarter, the highest level recorded there since CoStar began tracking the figure in 2005. Toll Brothers was the largest single contributor to the recent rise in… Read more »
Zarwin Baum Devito Kaplan Schaer Toddy P.C. Inks Deal at One Commerce Square
Law Firm Signs Lease at Downtown Philadelphia Office Tower Law firm Zarwin Baum Devito Kaplan Schaer Toddy P.C. subleased 29,724 square feet at One Commerce Square in downtown Philadelphia. The 1.02 million-square-foot tower at 2005 Market St. was built in 1987 and renovated in 2013. The 41-story, 4-Star building spans 1.4 acres one block from the 22nd… Read more »
Industrious Expands Philadelphia Footprint
Flexible Workspace Provider Signs Office Lease at Two Liberty Place Flexible workspace provider Industrious signed a 55,000-square-foot lease at the Two Liberty Place office tower in Philadelphia. Joyce Oh, Mid-Atlantic area manager of Industrious, said in a statement, “Industrious first entered Philadelphia in 2015 and we have continued to witness strong demand for our product…. Read more »
Coworking operator takes space in Two Liberty
Industrius, a coworking operator, has leased 55,000 square feet in Two Liberty Place, an office tower in Philadelphia. It will occupy two floors of the building at 50 S. 16th St. This will be the second Philadelphia location for the coworking operator. The company entered the market in 2015 when it leased two full floors,… Read more »
Sale of Mellon Bank Center closes
Silverstein Properties Inc. has closed on the $451.6 million purchase of BNY Mellon Bank Center, a 54-story, 1.3-million-square-foot office trophy office building in Center City. Silverstein, a New York real estate firm, bought the property in a venture with Arden Group of Philadelphia, and Migdal Insurance, an Israeli-based insurance company and pension fund manager. This… Read more »
Amicus Therapeutics Signs Large Office Lease at New Facility in Philadelphia
Biotech Company Plans to Hire 200 Employees at uCity Square Global biotechnology company Amicus Therapeutics signed a 75,000-square-foot lease at University City Science Center’s Class A office building in downtown Philadelphia. The uCity Square facility at 3675 Market St. will serve as Amicus Therapeutics’ (Nasdaq: FOLD) global research and gene therapy of excellence location, where the company… Read more »
Prime Philly Office Space to Sublease at 2 Penn Center
Wolf Commercial Real Estate, the leading Philly commercial real estate brokerage firm that specializes in Philadelphia commercial real estate listings and services, is offering prime Philly office space to sublease in 2 Penn Center at 1500 John F. Kennedy Boulevard Philadelphia PA. This Philly professional office space – located in the heart of the Philadelphia… Read more »
Ballinger Renews Lease in Downtown Philadelphia
Local Architecture Firm Signs Large Office Lease Local architecture firm Ballinger renewed its 78,951-square-foot lease at HCP’s Class A office building in Philadelphia. The 708,361-square-foot building at 833 Chestnut St. was built in 1926 and renovated in 2006. The 14-story, 4-Star property spans 1.6 acres across from the 8th and Market Street train station. Hether Smith with… Read more »
