Alterra Property Group Market Street Deal Falls Through

Alterra Property Group Deal Falls Through

Alterra Property Group’s deal to buy the office building at 1701 Market St. from LXP Industrial Trust, with plans to convert it into apartments, has fallen through.

Philadelphia-based Alterra went under contract on the Center City property in the fall, Alterra Managing Partner Leo Addimando said. The company terminated the contract three weeks ago, said Addimando, citing rising development costs. 

The 305,170-square-foot, 18-story building has been the longtime Morgan Lewis & Bockius headquarters. The law firm is vacating the entire property and moving to a new 19-story building at 2222 Market St. in late summer or fall.

*Article courtesy of Philadelphia Business Journal

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Completion Approaches in Center City Market Street

Office Philly YIMBY Completion

Philadelphia YIMBY’s recent site visit has observed that construction work is nearing completion at the 295-foot-tall, 19-story office development at 2222 Market Street in Center City West. Designed by Gensler and developed by the Parkway Corporation (alternately Parkway Commercial Properties), with IMC Construction as the contractor, the development will feature 329,100 square feet of tenant floor area, with 324,826 square feet of Class A office space and 4,274 square feet of retail, as well as a 47-car underground garage.

The structure is being built as the new headquarters for Morgan Lewis, a major law firm. Building features will include ten-foot-high ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows, several landscaped outdoor decks, flexible workspace plans, a conference center, a fitness center, Zoom conference rooms, expanded areas for servicing out-of-office visitors, and rooms with advanced audio technology to facilitate virtual court hearings.

*Article courtesy of Philly YIMBY

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4-Building Old City Portfolio on the Market, Including the Bourse

Offices Old City Hit the Market

MRP Realty is looking to sell its four-building Old City portfolio, a listing that comes seven years after the Washington, D.C., company acquired the properties and entered the Philadelphia office market. 

The buildings total 713,000 square feet and are collectively 52% occupied.

*Article courtesy Philadelphia Business Journal

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BET Investments Purchases Ambler Office Building Lot Next to SEPTA

BET Investments Purchases Ambler Lot next to SEPTA

BET Investments Inc., known for mixed-use developments in the Philadelphia suburbs, has purchased an office building and adjacent parking lot in Ambler next to the SEPTA Regional Rail station.

Property records show the company paid $12.8 million for the two-story, 66,500-square-foot office building at 100 W. Butler Ave. and the parking lot across South Maple Street next to the train station.

The approximately 3.5 acres sit in a prime spot for redevelopment, but for now, BET Investments President Michael Markman is comfortable with the building’s two occupants, Hatch LTK and Precis Engineering, both engineering firms with long-term leases.

*Article courtesy of Philadelphia Business Journal

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Ensemble Investments Purchases Two Wayne Office Buildings

Ensemble Buys Wayne Offices

Ensemble Investments LLC is expanding its local reach outside of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, buying two top-tier office buildings in Wayne totaling 204,000 square feet. 

The Long Beach, California, real estate firm purchased 650 and 680 E. Swedesford Road from Prologis Inc. The latter picked up the buildings in its $13 billion acquisition of Liberty Property Trustin 2020. 

Ensemble Investments did not disclose how much it paid for the buildings. 

*Article courtesy of Philadelphia Business Journal

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Chubb Announces Plans for New Philly Office

Chubb new Office in Philly

Chubb, the world’s largest publicly traded property and casualty insurance company, today announced its plan for a new Philadelphia office that will occupy a state-of-the-art building to be constructed at 2000 Arch Street, reaffirming a commitment to the City of Philadelphia and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that can be traced to 1792. Designed with the highest standards for sustainability, the new 18-floor, 438,000 rentable square foot structure is being developed in partnership with Parkway Corporation. Construction will commence in February 2023.

*Article courtesy of CityBiz

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Philadelphia Growth Remote Work

Office Space Philadelphia

It turns out people don’t decide where to live solely based on where they work, and that’s good news for Philadelphia’s coffers and the city’s small business recovery — at least for now.

“The core of the downtown, while not fully restored because [we’re still] missing 45% of office workers… is coming back relatively strongly,” said Paul Levy, president and CEO of the Center City District. “The tide is largely coming back.”

*Article courtesy of BillyPenn

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Alterra Property Group Nears Deal with Vacated Morgan Lewis Building

Alterra Nears Deal with Morgan Lewis

Alterra Property Group is nearing a deal to acquire 1701 Market St. with plans to convert the longtime Morgan Lewis & Bockius headquarters building into apartments, according to industry sources.

The 305,170-square-foot property in the heart of the Central Business District has been up for sale as Morgan Lewis plans to vacate the entire space and move five blocks west into a new 19-story building at 2222 Market St. in 2023.

The 18-story 1701 Market building is owned by an entity affiliated with LXP Industrial Trust (NYSE: LXP), previously known as Lexington Realty Trust. The New York company rebranded last year as it sheds its office portfolio to focus solely on industrial properties. 

Alterra declined to comment on 1701 Market. 

*Article courtesy of Philadelphia Business Journal

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Alterra Property Group to Acquire Previous Morgan Lewis Building

Alterra Property Group Philly

Alterra Property Group is nearing a deal to acquire 1701 Market St. with plans to convert the longtime Morgan Lewis & Bockius headquarters building into apartments, according to industry sources.

The 305,170-square-foot property in the heart of the Central Business District has been up for sale as Morgan Lewis plans to vacate the entire space and move five blocks west into a new 19-story building at 2222 Market St. in 2023.

The 18-story 1701 Market building is owned by an entity affiliated with LXP Industrial Trust (NYSE: LXP), previously known as Lexington Realty Trust. The New York company rebranded last year as it sheds its office portfolio to focus solely on industrial properties. 

*Article courtesy of Philadelphia Business Journal

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CBIZ Relocates Office to West Conshohocken

CBIZ Relocates to West Conshohocken

CBIZ Inc. has signed a 10-year lease for 50,850 square feet in West Conshohocken with plans to relocate more than 200 employees from Plymouth Meeting.

The global accounting and financial services firm will become the largest tenant at Keystone Development & Investment’s 1K1 building at 1001 Conshohocken State Road, taking up the entire sixth floor and part of the fourth floor. 

Cleveland-based CBIZ (NYSE: CBZ) plans to make the move in the third quarter of 2023 and will have as many as 240 employees at the new location, company spokesperson Mark McGuriman told the Business Journal in an email. Of those, 15 to 25 will be new hires while the rest will move from the firm’s Plymouth Meeting office at 401 Plymouth Road.

McGuriman said CBIZ has outgrown its space in Plymouth Meeting. Though the 54,000 square feet the company currently occupies is slightly more than what it is leasing in Conshohocken, he said some divisions have had to be split between multiple floors. At the 1K1 building, CBIZ’s benefits and insurance divisions, as well as its accounting tax and advisory groups, will all be on the same floor.

*Article courtesy of Philadelphia Business Journal

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