Leasing

HOUSTON-Pathfinder Insurance Group re-ups two years early to get expansion space in a 118,000-sf suburban office building along Dairy Ashford Road. The extra office space, though not contiguous, takes the bottom line to 9,633 sf.

ANNAPOLIS JUNCTION, MD-The 175-acre multi-structure National Business Parkway maintains its 100% occupancy level with the US General Services Administration's leasing of the park's newest 120,000-sf building.

SAN FRANCISCO-Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory LLP next June will move to the Boston Properties office building from 333 Bush, where its lease is up at the end of May.

SAN JOSE-Equity Office Properties Trust names Richard Scott--most recently principal and senior vice president of Commercial Property Services Co. in Santa Clara, CAits managing director leasing in the San Jose region.

DENVER-Even though the corridor is seeing the most activity since April 2001, lease rates continue to fall and concessions continue to rise according to the latest report by CB Richard Ellis.

HOUSTON-General Stevedores, a steel and iron distributor located in a 40,000-sf leased building in east Houston has taken over the lease for the 24,000-sf building next door.

PARSIPPANY, NJ-The company's Global Pharmaceutical Group is using the top three floors at SJP Properties' Morris Corporate Center IV as a regional sales office. GVA Williams put the deal together for the tenant.

LONDON-Greycoat subsidiary City Offices and the German fund CGI have let the 15,600-sf One Paternoster Square, London EC4 to Lexicon Partners at a rumoured pounds 50 ($85) per sf.