Law Firm Negotiates 200,000-SF Office Lease

WASHINGTON, DC-Leading law firm Piper Rudnick is working through the ins and outs of a deal with Boston Properties to lease 200,000 sf of a proposed 300,000-sf building at 9th and E streets. “We’ve reached a tentative agreement; we’re still negotiating terms,” Piper Rudnick Washington Office managing partner Theodore D. Segal tells GlobeSt.com.

If all goes as planned, the transaction will mark the city’s largest office lease of 2004 to date, knocking law firm Collier Shannon Scott’s recent 117,000-sf lease renewal deal at Washington Harbour out of the park, and beating law firm White & Case’s take at One Metro Center by 100,000 sf. Such a sizable commitment from Piper Rudnick would mean developer Boston Properties could move forward with constructing the $120-million office property.