The buildings are one single-story office building and twoR&D flex/office buildings at GATE, or the Government andTechnology Enterprise project, a 413-acre enclave carved out of theAberdeen Proving Ground for private sector use. GATE consists ofnearly 350,000 square feet of space among six buildings.

Buildings underway include 6245 Guardian Gateway, asingle-story, 31,280 square foot office building; and two R&Dflex/office buildings: 6165 Guardian Gateway, 51,120 square feet ona single story and 6175 Guardian Gateway clocking in with 54,120square feet. All three are designed to LEED Silver standards.

Construction has been underway for some time on the two-phase,2.5-million-square-foot campus to house the Command, Control,Computer, Communication, Intelligence, Surveillance andReconnaissance (C4ISR) Command operations. Expected to deliver inQ3 2011, that building will house 5,000 workers who are relocatingfrom existing facilities at Fort Monmouth, NJ--and will mark thebeginning of a surge of BRAC-related demand for nearby space thatcould last as long as twenty years, according to Jerry Wit, SVP atSt. John Properties. "Our primary objective is to stay ahead of theoffice demand curve and we believe that interest will ramp upsubstantially in conjunction with the completion of the C4ISRfacility.

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Erika Morphy

Erika Morphy has been writing about commercial real estate at GlobeSt.com for more than ten years, covering the capital markets, the Mid-Atlantic region and national topics. She's a nerd so favorite examples of the former include accounting standards, Basel III and what Congress is brewing.