Bedford Office Sector Heating Up

BEDFORD, MA-A wave of late-summer leasing activity is poised to wash over this suburban community just north of Boston, as three significant CRE deals are said to be in the works that collectively exceed a quarter million sf of transactions. Two are located at the Bedford Business Park, owned by Boston Properties, while the largest is unfolding at 125 Middlesex Turnpike where upwards of 150,000 sf is in play.

Calls to Boston Properties and the Bedford Business Park’s prospective tenants were not returned by press deadline, but industry sources claim Zink Imaging and Citrix Systems have each committed to taking space at the 22-acre, 470,000-sf campus. Presently headquartered in Waltham, Zink Imaging is a cutting-edge digital printing firm that is expected to lease about 60,000 sf at Building 4G. Sources say the company will take over sublease space left by the departure earlier this year of Affymetrix, a life sciences company that consolidated operations in California. Zink has agreed to extend its term beyond the end of that sublease, add industry sources. The brokers for Zink are reportedly Brooks Murphy and Neil Ross of Staubach Co., who did not respond to inquiries.