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Green Office in PA Suburbs Signs First Tenants

KING OF PRUSSIA, PA-BPG Properties leases a total of 47,000 sf to the Hartford and Worldwide Clinical Trials at its newly opened 1000 Continental Dr.

By Paul Bubny | Updated on September 18, 2008

KING OF PRUSSIA, PA-The Hartford Financial Services Group and a clinical research firm are the first office tenants at BPG Properties’ 200,000-sf 1000 Continental Dr. here. The leases revealed by Philadelphia-based BPG total approximately 47,000 sf, with the Hartford and a subsidiary taking the entire third floor of 36,057 sf. Terms of the leases were not disclosed; both companies are expected to move in by December.

For the Hartford and subsidiary Specialty Risk Services, taking the space at 1000 Continental represents a relocation from 150 S. Warner Rd., part of Thomas Properties’ four-building Walnut Hill Plaza also located in King of Prussia. According to published reports, the Hartford also operates a customer-support center at Liberty Property Trust’s 4 Walnut Grove Dr. in Horsham, PA. The financial services firm is that 110,000-sf property’s sole tenant. The lease of a portion of 1000 Continental’s second floor is Beverly Hills, CA-based Worldwide Clinical’s first location in the Philadelphia market, Stephen M. Spaeder, SVP at BPG, tells GlobeSt.com.

Completed in Q3 2007, 1000 Continental is the only office property in its market that’s designed and constructed to meet LEED requirements, according to a release from BPG. “Both tenants were very enthusiastic about the property’s LEED qualifications,” Spaeder says. “As a major insurer, green was important to the Hartford and it ties in with some of the corporate culture they’re interested in promoting. Likewise, Worldwide Clinical also saw it as a big benefit, from an operational viewpoint and in terms of their ability to attract and keep employees.”

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