Approvals are complete for a 120,000-sf facility at 2660 Audubon Rd. in Valley Forge Corporate Center as soon as the company locks in a corporate tenant or build-to-suit client, BPG SVP Stephen Spaeder, tells GlobeSt.com. "While 1000 Continental will reach completion within 14 months of ground-breaking, we could deliver the Valley Forge building earlier, within a year," he says.
The marketing of the Valley Forge property is assigned to Scott Gabrielsen, SVP of locally based Binswanger, who tells GlobeSt.com the rental rates are in the mid- to high-$20s per sf. It will be a four-story building. Spaeder says the cost is approximately $22 million, or about $180 per sf. There is just one other property available in the area with this much contiguous space, so we see this as an alternative for a corporate user." BPG won't break ground until Gabrielsen finds one, though, because of progressing with 1000 Continental.
The all-in cost for this six-story, multi-tenant spec building is $42 million, "about $210 per sf," Spaeder says. John Susanin and Doug Newbert of GVA Smith Mack are handling the leasing. Spaeder says, "rates will be in the range of $29.50 to $30 per sf." BPG is the operating affiliate of locally based Berwind Property Group. It has a diverse portfolio of more than 20 million sf of commercial real estate space throughout the US.
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