In the larger of the commitments, AARP Financial renewed and expanded into 18,000 sf at Two Highwood Dr., while medical devices company Mitralign Inc. is taking 17,000 sf at Three Highwood Dr. The park has three buildings and a total of 278,000 sf.

"We're very pleased to have these tenants stay at Highwood," says Cushman & Wakefield broker Matt Adams, who negotiated on behalf of BPG along with colleague David Pergola. "It bodes well to be able to keep them." CB Richard Ellis principal Mark Reardon, who represented Mitralign, says the firm mulled alternative locations before opting to sign directly for three years. Reardon cites "great access" and professional management of Highwood Office Park as reasons the complex won out. "They were great to deal with," he says of BPG. Joining Reardon in orchestrating the Mitralign lease were CBRE VP Jason Levendusky and associate Jake Borden.

Exclusive leasing agents for the park, Adams and Pergola also assisted BPG in the AARP Financial lease, a 10-year deal in which the firm doubled in size. Two Highwood Dr. is a two-story, 82,000-sf property that BPG has upgraded substantially since buying the park in 2005, including the addition of a café and fitness center. An ongoing capital improvements campaign is also improving the park's common areas and lobbies, renovating the restrooms and modernizing lights and fixtures. "The buildings are looking really good now," says Adams.