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Plaza at PPL Center Sale Hits New Benchmark

ALLENTOWN, PA-An unidentified international syndicate pays Liberty approximately $85 million, more than $325 per sf, for PPL's LEEDs-certified landmark headquarters building.

By Marita Thomas | Updated on December 07, 2006

ALLENTOWN, PA-As expected, Liberty Property Trust’s sale of the Plaza at PPL Center hit a new benchmark for Pennsylvania office property sales outside of Philadelphia. Although the exact price is undisclosed, Mark DeRiemer, managing director in the New York office of Jones Lang LaSalle, tells GlobeSt.com it was “more than $325 per sf and less than $350 per sf,” or “comfortably over $82 million.”

Malvern-based Liberty charged DeRiemer with marketing the eight-story 252,193-sf building this March after energy supplier PPL Corp. declined to exercise its first right of refusal to buy the property. Liberty developed it as PPL’s headquarters at a cost of approximately $60 million and delivered it in July 2003. It was designed by New York-based Robert A.M. Stern Architects and received a LEEDs gold rating from the US Green Building Council.

When the property went to market unpriced, DeRiemer told GlobeSt.com, “it will clearly break a record” for sales in the Lehigh Valley. He speculated that there would be interest from overseas buyers but the most likely prospect would be a domestic buyer. As it turns out, it sold to a combination of both, “a syndicate from different overseas locations with some domestic participants, who want to remain anonymous,” he says.

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