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BEAVERCREEK, OH – Gearing up for its 100th anniversary, Woolpert Inc., a locally based engineering firm founded in 1911, has signed a 50,000-sf office lease in the 1,250-acre Miami Valley Research Park on Shakerton Road. Woolpert will move into its new build-to-suit headquarters, which is being developed by Dayton, OH-based Synergy Development, next October.

Jerry Momper, a senior vice president in The Staubach Co.'s Cincinnati office, tells GlobeSt.com that Woolpert's new headquarters is being built in a 28-acre area of the park called the Idea Center at Research Park. Located at Research Boulevard and County Line Road, the mixed-use business community will total 350,000 sf. Tenants of the center will share services and amenities, including an entrance drive, parking, plazas, landscaping, a dry cleaner, copy center, and coffee and sandwich shops.

Momper, Peggy Momper-Duncan and Brian Quinn wth The Staubach Co. represented Woolpert Inc. in its new lease. According to Staubach, the Woolpert search included a detailed analysis of nearly 40 sites in the Greater Dayton area. Woolpert plans to move 200 employees from its current headquarters, which is also east of Dayton.