• Real Estate

Lease-Related Advice, Property Management, and Brokerage

Attorneys in Beveridge & Diamond, P.C.'s Real Estate Practice Group have extensive experience advising clients in matters involving the negotiation of office, retail, industrial, flex-space, and parking garage leases, ground leases, property and garage management contracts, and commercial brokerage agreements.  Representative examples of their work in this area follow.

• Representing a ground lessee in its ground lease negotiations for a large industrial waste treatment facility in New York.

• Representing a 100,000 square feet tenant in office lease negotiations in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

• Negotiated the District of Columbia Sports and Entertainment Commission’s baseball stadium lease with the Washington Nationals.

• Negotiated space leases of all types (including GSA leases) ranging from under 3,000 to 500,000 square feet in size, ground leases, property management and brokerage agreements, and parking garage contracts for national, regional, and local clients such as office and shopping center developers (including the developer whose project at 1601 K Street, N.W. was a finalist for the Washington Business Journal's award for "Best Urban Office Development of 2005" and whose 155,000 square feet lease with Kirkpatrick & Lockhart which was a finalist for the Washington Business Journal's award for "Best Urban Office Lease of 2003"), privately-held businesses; office, warehouse, and retail tenants; trade and other non-profit associations; asset and property managers; international investment banks; public utility companies; international national law firms; and international manufacturing companies.
• Represented an international defense contractor in its management of its national real estate portfolio of 21 million square feet of leased and owned properties.
• Represented various Fortune 500 and international manufacturers (including life sciences corporations) in their respective negotiations for office and industrial facility leases and economic retention or relocation incentives with state and local governments.
  
  
• Negotiated a public utility’s Washington, D.C. headquarters office lease for 335,000 square feet.

• Represented the owners of over 25 Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania shopping centers in their retail lease negotiations.

• Represented a national developer with $6 billion under management in its initial ground lease negotiations with the Bridgeport Archdiocese for a proposed 1 million square foot mixed-use project in Stamford CT.

• Negotiated synthetic lease transactions for publicly traded international software and electronic data companies.