LOS ANGELES-USC has renewed for 160,000 square feet at MarinaTowers in Marina del Rey, and law firm BuckleySandler has expandedto 11,967 square feet at 100 Wilshire in Santa Monica in tworecently signed Westside L.A. office leases. The USC deal is thelargest office lease in West Los Angeles this year, according toBrookfield Properties, owner of the Marina Towers.

Marina Towers is composed of two 12 story buildings, one calledMarina Towers North at 4640 Admiralty Way and one called MarinaTowers South at 4676 Admiralty Way that were built in 1972 and1970, respectively. The two towers total 380,000 square feet andare owned by a joint venture between affiliates of BrookfieldProperties and Goldrich & Kest.

The USC space houses the university's Information SciencesInstitute, a research and development center for informationprocessing, computer and communications technologies. The instituteis a unit of USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering, one of thenation’s largest university-affiliated computer researchinstitutes.