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Transactions - DECEMBER 18, 2019

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Blackstone JV closes data center acquisition in Virginia

by Andrea Zander

Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) has completed a second transaction with Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust (BREIT).

COPT sold 90 percent of its interest in two single-tenant data center shell properties that contain 297,160 square feet of warehouse space to BREIT.

BREIT and COPT will hold the centers in a joint venture previously announced on June 20, 2019.

The aggregate property value implied from the transaction is approximately $80 million. COPT received $77 million in proceeds that it will deploy into its 2.6 million square foot pipeline of active development and redevelopment projects that, as of Oct. 9, 2019, were 82 percent pre-leased.

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