According to Eileen Newman, spokesperson for Fidelity Capital, Foley, Hoag & Eliot LLP will take an additional 58,000 sf for a total of 230,000 sf and Nutter, McClennen & Fish LLP will add 19,000 sf to its original lease for a total of 130,00 sf. Fidelity is developing the 525,000-sf building with Pembroke Real Estate, its Boston-based real estate arm, and the Drew Co.

Newman declined to disclose the lease rate for the additional space, which was taken for another 10 years, but reportedly it is in the mid $50-a-square-foot. Both firms had until June 1 to make their decision, and now that they have, Newman tells GlobeSt.com, "We will aggressively start marketing." Newman adds that the developers see no problem lining up tenants for the building, which will come online in the summer of 2002.

These lease deals--and State Street Corp.'s recent one million sf leasing deal at 1 Lincoln St.-- make any talk of a slowdown in this market seem light years away. It was just a year ago when Breakaway Solutions pulled out of the 90,000 sf it had leased at World Trade Center East, which opened in 2000 down the street from Trade Center West. That space was eventually put back on the market for significantly more than Breakaway had leased it for, but Trade Center East is still not fully leased.