Brandywine Realty Trust Announces $126 Million in Asset Sales and Pending Acquisition.Business Editors NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 27, 2002 Brandywine Realty Trust Brandywine Realty Trust (NYSE: BDN) is a real estate development trust (REIT) in the United States that buys, sells, leases and manages approximately 225 commercial properties, no more than 25 industrial parcels of land, mixed-use property, and over 200 acres of undeveloped (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : BDN BDN Borland Developer Network BDN Bangor Daily News (Maine, USA) BDN Business Development Network BDN Bell Data Network BDN Bulk Data Network BDN Busy Doing Nothing (band) BDN Buffered Delta Network ) announced today that it has closed on or reached definitive agreement on the sale of approximately $126 million in assets. These transactions are comprised of 22 properties aggregating 1.4 million square feet. Highlights of this activity include: - The sale of an industrial/flex portfolio consisting of 15 buildings totaling 765,887 square feet along with a 2.8 acre land parcel located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. - A definitive agreement to sell Park 80 West Plaza I & II, consisting of two Class A office buildings totaling 476,874 square feet located in Saddle Brook, New Jersey. This transaction is subject to satisfying customary closing conditions, and is expected to occur by the end of the first quarter 2002. Gerard H. Sweeney, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Brandywine Realty Trust, commented, "These sales are a key part of our capital recycling program and reflect our previously disclosed investment strategy of disposing of assets not located in our core markets or our targeted product type of Class A office properties. The execution of this strategy allows Brandywine to continue to grow on a leverage neutral basis by enabling us to take advantage of attractive investment opportunities in the markets which we currently have a concentrated market share and operating economies." Brandywine Realty Trust has also reached a definitive agreement to purchase Plymouth Meeting Executive Campus in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania Plymouth Meeting is a census-designated place (CDP) in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 5,593 at the 2000 census. It is home to the Colonial School District as well as the Plymouth Meeting Mall. , which is a four building office portfolio aggregating 360,250 square feet of space. This transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to be completed by the end of the first quarter 2002. Brandywine Realty Trust, with headquarters in Newtown Square, PA and regional offices in King of Prussia King of Prussia, industrialized suburban area (1990 pop. 18,406), Montgomery co., SE Pa. It has glass and steel fabricating, food processing, printing and publishing, and varied manufacturing (textiles, liquified petroleum gas, water-treatment and electrical , PA, Mt. Laurel, NJ and Richmond, VA is one of the Mid-Atlantic region's largest full service real estate companies. Brandywine owns, manages or has an ownership interest in 303 office and industrial properties, aggregating 20.5 million square feet. For more information, visit Brandywine's website at www.brandywinerealty.com Note: Certain statements in this release constitute forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance, achievements or transactions of the Company and its affiliates or industry results to be materially different from any future results, performance, achievements or transactions expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such risks, uncertainties and other factors relate to, among others, the Company's ability to lease vacant space and to renew or relet space under expiring leases at expected levels, the potential loss of major tenants, interest rate levels, the availability and terms of debt and equity financing Equity Financing The act of raising money for company activities by selling common or preferred stock to individual or institutional investors. In return for the money paid, shareholders receive ownership interests in the corporation. , competition with other real estate companies for tenants and acquisitions, risks of real estate acquisitions, dispositions and developments, including cost overruns and construction delays, unanticipated operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales and the effects of general and local economic and real estate conditions. Additional information or factors which could impact the Company and the forward-looking statements contained herein are included in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company assumes no obligation to update or supplement forward-looking statements that become untrue because of subsequent events. |
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