The building is the first to be constructed in Duke's Park Westbusiness park, with two more buildings planned, says Jennifer Burk,SVP of the company's Indiana Office Group. "The other two buildingswill be similar," she tells GlobeSt.com. "The one directly acrossfrom One West, to be called Three West, we intend to build next, itwill be about the same size as One West. We're in the planningstages for that buildings, I can't say when it will start." Theentire project will take up about 550,000 sf.

The One West building is served by a parking garage and outdoorparking. Duke was asking $23.50 per sf to lease in the building,and sources tell GlobeSt.com that the final arrangement was prettyclose to that figure. The average asking rate for class A officespace in the Meridian Corridor is about $20.37 per sf, according toa second quarter Grubb & Ellis market report.

Burk says as demand warrants, the company also plans a thirdspeculative building, Two West, parallel to the highway. Thatbuilding will be slightly larger than the others, at 190,000 sf,but will be five stories high like the first two offices. "It willhave larger floor plates, and by then we'll build a larger coveredparking garage," she says. "Depending on the market, and given oursuccess leasing up the first building so quickly, we expect to befully developed in three-to-five years." There has already beeninterest in Three West, she says.

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