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Brandywine Realty Trust Announces Sale of Park 80 West in Saddle Brook, NJ.


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SADDLE BROOK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 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

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), announced today the sale of the Park 80 West office complex in Saddle Brook, New Jersey Saddle Brook is a township in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 13,155.

Saddle Brook adopted its current name on November 8, 1955, replacing Saddle River Township.
 to Transwestern, acting on behalf of an Asian pension fund.

The sale price was $74.6 million. Stonebridge Advisors represented Transwestern, while Legg Mason represented Brandywine Realty Trust in this transaction.

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, "The sale of Park 80 West is in keeping with our strategy of concentrating our interests in the Central and Southern New Jersey and Greater Philadelphia marketplaces. As the dominant landlord and developer in this region, we are able to capitalize on economies of scale and excellent synergies which are byproducts of our in-market consolidation program."

Brandywine acquired Park 80 West, a Class A office park consisting of two buildings totaling 464,000 square feet, in December of 1997. Upon Brandywine Realty Trust's acquisition of Park 80 West, the facilities underwent a significant repositioning and are now approximately 98% leased. Notable tenants at Park 80 West include New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 Life Insurance, Unilever and Insignia/ESG.

Located in Bergen County, Park 80 West is strategically situated at the interchange of Route 80 and the Garden State Parkway The Garden State Parkway is a 172.4-mile (277-km) limited-access toll parkway that stretches the length of New Jersey from the New York state line at Montvale, New Jersey, to Cape May at the southern tip of the state. Its name refers to the state nickname, the "Garden State". . The complex features a structured parking deck and such on-site amenities as a fitness center, full-service bank with ATM, 5,000 square foot cafeteria, valet dry cleaner, copy center and convenience store. Other services include shoeshine service and car wash/detailing.

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 310 office and industrial properties, aggregating 21.2 million square feet.

For more information, visit Brandywine's website at www.brandywinerealty.com

Note: Certain statements in this release constitute forward-looking statements 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 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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