LONDON-Local retailer Debenhams has agreed to pre-lease 145,000 square feet for a new headquarters at 10 Brock St. in the 2.2-million-square-foot Regent’s Place project owned by British Land. The building is being developed as part of the developer’s 500,000-square-foot mixed-use portion of the northeast section of Regents.

The building will include 340,000 square feet of office, 40,000 square feet of retail and 120,000 square feet of multifamily. About 70% of the apartments have been pre-leased, according to a British Land statement. The new complex should be complete by the summer of 2013, with Debenhams occupying the first four floors for a 25-year lease. The retailer, now located at One Welback St., has 153 stores across the United Kingdom and Ireland, and 65 stores outside these two regions.

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Tim Roberts, head of office at British Land, said in the statement that the new lease secures long-term income on the lower floors, “leaving the opportunity to attract premium rents on the higher floors closer to the building’s completion date.”