Beal, Rockpoint Sign 20,000-SF Office Tenant

BOSTON-Yet another tenant has signed on at Seaport Center, the nine-story, 458,000-sf office building in the city’s emerging Seaport District. A trade group, the International Health Racquet & Sportsclub Association, is taking just under 20,000 sf on the second floor of the building, also known as 451 D St., bringing occupancy to nearly 70%.

“That lease is signed,” relays Robert Doherty of the Beal Cos., the Boston-based real estate and investment firm that acquired the building in May 2006 in partnership with Rockpoint Group LLC. Doherty says Ihrsa will be relocating to the property by year’s end from 263 Summer St., also part of the Seaport District.

Previously known as the Fargo Building, 451 D St. was taken back by its lender prior to Beal and Rockpoint’s acquisition. A plan to convert the building to residential had resulted in the departure of several tenants, but upon buying the asset, Beal and Rockpoint undertook a campaign to restock Seaport Center as an office building. The effort has already yielded a number of sizeable commitments, including a Hart-Hanks subsidiary, the Aberdeen Group, which leased 26,000 sf in the first quarter, as reported by GlobeSt.com.