A plastics engineering and services provider that works with the government and other government contractors, D. Wheatley Enterprises Inc., which has called Aberdeen Tech Center home for the last eight years, more than doubled its occupancy at the property by expanding from 14,400 sf to 36,900 sf. Newcomer Battelle Memorial Institute, a global science and technology concern, signed a lease for 4,800 sf of space. Further terms of the agreements between the occupants and property owner and manager St. John Properties Inc. have not been disclosed.

"D. Wheatley Enterprises has been a long-term and stable tenant at Aberdeen Technology Park and they are making a strong statement by increasing their space requirement by nearly three-fold at the project," says Jerry Witt, St. John VP of marketing and leasing. "We have been extremely successful in attracting companies that are involved in the defense or high-technology industries to this location, and Battelle Memorial Institute represents the latest example in this pattern. We expect interest in office space situated near military installations to increase in the coming years."