BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Boston Properties, Inc. (NYSE: BXP), a real estate investment trust, announced today that the Company has signed an agreement to sell its Carnegie Center portfolio located in Princeton, New Jersey for approximately $468.0 million. The buyer is a joint venture between Normandy Real Estate Partners and The Landis Group. Carnegie Center is a sixteen building Class A office park set on 560 acres of professionally landscaped grounds and totaling more than 2.0 million net rentable square feet. Boston Properties acquired the Carnegie Center portfolio in 1998 and in addition to managing and leasing the portfolio, the Company completed approximately 300,000 square feet of new development.
Under the terms of the agreement, either party may terminate the agreement at any time without any cost or payment to the other party. If the closing does not occur on or prior to June 21, 2011, which is the date by which the Company must complete the sale in order to include it as part of a "like kind exchange" under Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code, then the agreement will terminate. There can be no assurance that the sale will be consummated on the terms currently contemplated or at all.
Boston Properties is a fully integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust that develops, redevelops, acquires, manages, operates and owns a diverse portfolio of Class A office space, one hotel, two residential properties and three retail properties. The Company is one of the largest owners and developers of Class A office properties in the United States, concentrated in five markets – Boston, Midtown Manhattan, Washington, DC, San Francisco and Princeton, NJ.
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