Five Below Inc. is trying to sublease 42,000 square feet at its Philadelphia headquarters, deciding it no longer needs the space it grabbed two years ago for future expansion. If possible, it wouldn’t mind getting rid of an additional 26,000 square feet for a grand total of 68,000 square feet. The company is “evaluating a hybrid model… Read more »
Dechert has signed a short-term renewal on about 109,000 square feet of office space over four floors at Cira Centre. Dechert, one of Philadelphia’s largest law firms, had been in discussions for some time with the building’s landlord, Brandywine Realty Trust, to occupy four floors in the upper section of Cira Centre. The firm had… Read more »
Biomeme Inc., a diagnostic startup behind a rapid Covid-19 test, has signed a lease on 44,000 square feet to relocate its headquarters, lab and production space to 401 N. Broad St. in Center City. The company is currently housed in about 20,000 square feet at 1015 Chestnut St. and has grown during the pandemic as… Read more »
The Wanamaker building is facing 500,000 square feet of vacant space after Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia exercised an option to terminate its lease at the building and two other tenants decided to move out. The 1.4-million-square-foot building at 100 Penn Square East in Center City has 950,000 square feet of office space and the remainder… Read more »
A Charlotte real estate firm has paid $9.45 million for a 78,000-square-foot building at 1400 N. Howard St. in Philadelphia and plans to invest another $8 million to redevelop it. While the Charlotte real estate firm owns several High Street retail properties near Rittenhouse Square including 1704 Walnut St., it also has a growing presence… Read more »
Axlata Coating Systems Ltd. plans to close its Center City global headquarters office and move out of the 36,000 square feet it has occupied at Two Commerce Square for the last seven years. Employees working out of Philadelphia will relocate to either its 55,000-square-foot North American headquarters off Applied Bank Way in Glen Mills or… Read more »
The properties being marketed are: 656-676 E. Swedesford Road, a two-building complex that totals 147,000 square feet; and the Valley Forge Office Center, which includes 480 E. Swedesford Road, a 49,000-square-foot building, and 500 E. Swedesford Road, a 61,000-square-foot property. No prices have been set for the buildings. The complex at 656-676 E. Swedesford was… Read more »
As many as 85% of tenants in one office landlord’s buildings across the country are still working from home, and its executives say large employers are realizing they may have more of a struggle on their hands in getting everyone back than first anticipated. Brandywine Realty Trust executives are finding that even as some tenant… Read more »
Imvax expected to host an event in April or May to unveil its new headquarters at The Curtis in the Old City section of Philadelphia, but the ongoing pandemic scuttled those plans. “Covid-19 clearly got in the way,” said John Furey, the former Spark Therapeutics executive who was hired as CEO of Imvax last year. “Once… Read more »
Rubenstein Partners is moving forward with a $50 million repositioning of Chesterbrook, which is what the real estate company is now calling and branding the Tredyffrin business park it bought in the summer of 2019. The Philadelphia real estate company has five of the 14 buildings totaling 1.1 million square feet it bought under some… Read more »
