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The experienced team of commercial real estate experts at Wolf Commercial Real Estate provides up-to-date, detailed information about office space in Malvern to help clients and prospects achieve their real estate goals.  As a premier Malvern commercial real estate broker, Wolf Commercial Real Estate exemplifies the highest quality of service and proven expertise in Malvern commercial real estate services.

The Malvern commercial real estate brokerage firm of Wolf Commercial Real Estate helps owners sell and/or lease their office space in Malvern through a defined marketing process that is tailored to fit the individual characteristics of each property.  Our winning marketing strategy efficiently matches buyers and tenants with available Malvern office space.

Clients in the market for new office space in Malvern and throughout Chester County rely on the team at our Malvern commercial real estate brokerage firm to find available Malvern office space that best suits their needs.  With solid expertise in Malvern commercial real estate services, we are able to assess the sale or lease terms for your new office space in Malvern to verify that they are the best fit for your commercial real estate goals.

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Vanguard Buys Office Building in Malvern

Vanguard Group has expanded its footprint in Malvern by buying 1400 Atwater Drive, a pair of connected five-story buildings totaling 300,000 square feet near the Pennsylvania Turnpike’s Route 29 interchange.

Since 2018, the investment firm has leased two floors, or 48,000 square feet, at the property. About 300 employees are currently in the space. 

*Article courtesy of Philadelphia Business Journal

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Endo International’s Bankruptcy Maintains a Presence with its Malvern HQ

Endo Industrial Malvern Office Headquarters

Endo International, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Wednesday, continues to maintain a small presence in Malvern where it has its U.S. headquarters.

Endo, domiciled in Ireland, has had an unusual relationship with its U.S. headquarters, which it had built for itself. The pharmaceutical company’s warnings about the possibility of a Chapter 11 filing recently spooked a potential buyer from acquiring the complex, according to sources familiar with the situation. 

In late 2011, Endo signed a long-term lease to have the $85 million headquarters developed at Atwater Corporate Center in Malvern, deciding to consolidate its local operations. The development team consisted of a partnership between Trammell Crow Co. and Chambers Street Properties.

Building the new complex at 1400 Atwater Drive involved developing two, connected five-story buildings totaling 320,000 square feet and a parking garage that accommodates 420 vehicles on a parcel that overlooks a 60-acre lake created by an old limestone quarry. Ground was broken in early 2012 and by January 2013 Endo moved its 700 local employees into the new headquarters. 

Its occupancy was short-lived. 

*Article courtesy of Philadelphia Business Journal

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Equus Capital Partners sells Microsoft-anchored office building in Malvern for $36.3M

Equus Capital Partners Ltd. has sold 45 Liberty Blvd., a three-story, 136,977-square-foot office property in Malvern, for $36.3 million. 

FLD Group, a real estate company from Lakewood, New Jersey, bought the property that was 95% occupied and Microsoft Corp. is an anchor tenant. This is the second building FLD has purchased in the Great Valley Corporate Center. In 2019, it bought 100 Deerfield Lane, a 91,190-square-foot office building, for $15.5 million. 

The building at 45 Liberty was built in 1999 and Equus bought it in 2018 as part of a larger, seven-building portfolio it acquired from Liberty Property Trust for $92 million. The Newtown Square real estate company undertook $4.1 million in upgrades to the building including to the common areas, lobby, restrooms among others. 

*Article courtesy of Philadelphia Business Journal

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A Cellulite-Fighting Drug is a Big Part of Malvern-Based Endo’s Plan to Buy BioSpecifics for $658M

Endo Pharmaceuticals, the Malvern-based drugmaker, has agreed to pay around $658 million for BioSpecifics Technologies, a 20-year-old Wilmington company whose collagen-based injection treatments were approved by the Food and Drug Administration earlier this year to fight “moderate to severe cellulite in the buttocks of adult women.”

Endo plans to market the treatment under the brand named Qwo, starting in the spring. Injected through needle shots, Qwo offers an alternative to surgery, scraping, and other more invasive treatments for patients paying to reduce their visible body fat.

Endo shares rose 13.25% for the day to $5.64, the highest the stock has been since February.

BioSpecifics, which employs seven people in its lab and offices at the Bellevue office park just north of Wilmington, had already been collecting large profits by licensing to Endo a collagen-based treatment, sold under the brand name Xiaflex. It fights conditions including Dupuytren’s contracture, which causes involuntarily clenched hands, and Peyronie’s disease, which results in curved penises. The company has applied for other human and animal uses.

Endo chief executive Blaise Coleman in a statement predicted “significant long-term growth potential” for both Xiaflex and Qwo, which he called “durable” products.

The deal caps a recent effort by BioSpecifics directors to chart a future after emerging from two generations of its founding family’s control.Bottom of Form

In a letter to investors April 29, BioSpecifics board chairman Jennifer Chao had called the company “extremely conservative” and risk-averse since the death of its “innovative” founder, Edwin C. Wegman, in 2007, and during the ensuing years when Wegman’s son and successor, Thomas Wegman, ran the company before his own death last year.

Chao had promised to recruit an energetic management team and “raise [BioSpecifics’] strategic trajectory,” with a “myriad of possibilities” for growing the company.

But BioSpecifics sales fell this year, with the company blaming the drop on the decline in elective medical procedures under anti-COVID-19 virus guidelines that shut or cut hours at medical specialists’ offices, and reduced the use of many treatments. This occurred even as emergency and intensive care staff rushed to contain virus cases amid the onslaught of the pandemic.

BioSpecifics rose sharply to close at $88.69, topping its share price. It was a record high for the stock, which went public in 1991, and a 44% increase over its closing Friday.

The purchase values the BioSpecifics business and its potential future sales at around $540 million, plus around $120 million that the company has piled up as cash from previous years’ profits.

Endo is based in Ireland for tax and legal purposes. But its top executives work on Atwater Drive in offices perched atop a rocky point near a lake in a former limestone quarry north of Malvern. Endo was spun off by DuPont Co. and Merck in 1997 after DuPont dropped plans to invest its chemical profits in developing a powerful pharmaceutical affiliate.

Endo’s share price peaked at $95 in 2015. But the stock lost most of its value later that year as it forecast lower profits. It took its Opana line of opiate painkillers off the market in 2017. DEA agents had called Opana one of the most abused prescription narcotics, and state and local governments and plaintiff lawyers have filed civil lawsuits to recover treatment costs and alleged damages against Endo, Purdue Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson, AmerisourceBergen, and other opioid drugmakers and distributors.

Since then, Endo has speeded up the development of new products. But the two companies’ relationship goes back years earlier: BioSpecifics first agreed to supply Endo with collagen-based products in 2004, as the company sought to build its Endo Aesthetics product lines.

BioSpecifics’ largest owner, the Wegman family heirs, control nearly 13% of the stock and have agreed to sell their shares as part of the deal. Other large holders include the hedge fund Renaissance Technologies LLC, the giant BlackRock investment group, and New York investor Jeffrey K. Vogel.

The deal was unanimously approved by the boards of both companies.

*Article courtesy of Philadelphia Inquirer

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Wolf Commercial Real Estate, a full-service CORFAC International brokerage and advisory firm, is a premier  Malvern commercial real estate broker that provides a full range of Malvern commercial real estate listings and services, property management services, and marketing commercial offices, medical properties, industrial properties, land properties, retail buildings and other Malvern commercial properties for buyers, tenants, investors and sellers.

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Malvern complex housing Saint Gobain’s North American HQ hits market, could sell for $140M

A 321,226-square-foot Malvern office complex housing the North American headquarters of Saint-Gobain and its CertainTeed Corp. subsidiary has hit the market and is expected to trade for as much as $140 million.

The two-building complex at 18-20 Moores Road last traded in February 2016. That’s when a venture between 90 North Real Estate Partners of London and Arzan Wealth of Dubai bought the office property for $123 million.

The property comes up for sale at a time when many office buildings that were on the market prior to the pandemic have subsequently been taken off. Most, if not all, of those buildings are occupied by multiple tenants and, these uncertain times — with unpredictable rents and tenants contracting or not signing new leases — have prompted landlords to hold off on transactions.

In contrast, there’s demand for office assets fully occupied by single-tenants on a long-term basis.

On a smaller scale, net-leased properties housing everything from AutoZone, Dollar General to DiVita Dialysis and other retailers such as Royal Farms have also been active sellers. Low interest rates and predictable rent payments have spurred those sales.

Net-lease properties, those leased to a single tenant on a long-term basis and frequently in free-standing buildings, are also attractive to those looking for a passive investment that generates a consistent, predictable return.

On a much larger scale are office buildings such as 18-20 Moores. The complex had originally been 236,704 square feet and occupied by Aegon, an international life insurance and pension company with a local presence.

E. Kahn Development Corp., J. Loew & Associates and Aegon affiliate, Aegon U.S. Realty Advisors, spent $80 million redeveloping what had been a 1960s vintage office complex for Saint Gobain and CertainTeed. The total gut redevelopment included connecting those two structures at 18 Moores Road, which totals 43,891 square feet, and 20 Moores Road, which totals 277,335 square feet.

The redevelopment of the complex involved creating a modern corporate office environment that incorporated many of the materials that the companies manufacture. It also includes an R&D facility and showroom for many of the companies’ products.

Saint-Gobain and CertainTeed each signed 15-year leases on the complex and moved in 2015. There are 10 years remaining on each of the leases with the expirations in the third quarter of 2030.

The property totals 60 acres just off of Route 202. However, what is up for sale involves the 36 acres upon which the headquarters building sit. Saint Gobain owns 14 additional acres and has plans to build a day care and meeting center on that parcel. The remaining land is owned by the seller and can be purchased separately.

*Article courtesy of Philadelphia Business Journal

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Wolf Commercial Real Estate, a full-service CORFAC International brokerage and advisory firm, is a premier  Malvern commercial real estate broker that provides a full range of Malvern commercial real estate listings and services, property management services, and marketing commercial offices, medical properties, industrial properties, land properties, retail buildings and other Malvern commercial properties for buyers, tenants, investors and sellers.

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Malvern office complex backfills space once occupied by Unisys 

Nearly a year after negotiating an exit for Unisys Corp. from its decades long home at the Great Valley Commerce Center in Malvern, the landlord is steadily backfilling the 123,000 square feet the technology company vacated and putting the office complex back on stable footing.

The 33.5-acre Great Valley Commerce consists of two office buildings. One property totals 280,000 square feet at 2476 Swedesford Road and another structure, which totals 80,000 square feet, at 1000 Cedar Hollow Road.

Unisys (NYSE: UIS) built the complex in 1968 and until about 2009, it had been called the Unisys Technology Center as a result of the company occupying all of its space.

When Apex Financial Advisors Inc. bought the complex just off Route 202 for $78 million in 2017, Unisys occupied 123,000 square feet at 2476 Swedesford Road and 19,000 square feet at the Cedar Hollow building. It was then that Apex began negotiations with Unisys about its eventual departure. The lease was expected to expire this December.

“As their business changed, they needed less and less space,” said Joe Weidenburner of Apex. “These big tech companies needed a much bigger footprint than they do now.”

Last August, Unisys vacated space and relocated those operation to its headquarters in Blue Bell. Apex then moved forward with gutting the interior space, installed a new roof and mechanical systems and launched an effort to lease up the vacant 123,000 square feet of space. So far, the Yardley real estate company has spent $15 million on those combined efforts and it has paid off.

It landed Zoetis Inc., (NYSE: ZTS) an animal health spinoff from Pfizer Inc. based in Parsippany, New Jersey. The company signed a 10-year lease on 65,179 square feet that started in April.

BioTelemetry Inc., which was in 1000 Cedar Hollow and had a lease expiring in March 2021, needed more space. Apex negotiated an 11-year lease on 25,000 square feet lease for the company to relocate to 2476 Swedesford. BioTelemetry’s (NASDAQ: BEAT) began to occupy the space this month. The company also extended its lease on 60,529 square feet at Cedar Hollow in a deal that will commence April 2021.

There’s about 30,000 square feet left to be leased at 2476 Swedesford.

Though it relocated the bulk of its Malvern operations to Blue Bell, Unisys still occupied 19,000 square feet at the Cedar Hollow building. On March 13, at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) of Reston, Virginia, closed on a $1.2 billion cash deal to acquire Unisys Federal, a cloud operating business unit that occupied that space. SAIC last month renewed that lease until 2023.

Exeter Property Group bought the Great Valley Commerce Center in 2009 for $19.5 million from Unisys and launched a multimillion-dollar renovation to the buildings and renamed it the Great Valley Commerce Center. A couple of years after that DaVita Inc., which operates DaVita Dialysis, leased 120,000 square feet of office space at 2476 Swedesford and later expanded by another 16,000 square feet in the building.

*Article courtesy of Philadelphia Business Journal

For more information about Malvern office space for sale or lease in Philadelphia or about any other Philadelphia commercial properties for sale or lease, please contact the team at  Wolf Commercial Real Estate, a Malvern commercial real estate broker.

Wolf Commercial Real Estate, a full-service CORFAC International brokerage and advisory firm, is a premier Malvern commercial real estate broker that provides a full range of Malvern commercial real estate listings and services, property management services, and marketing commercial offices, medical properties, industrial properties, land properties, retail buildings and other Malvern commercial properties for buyers, tenants, investors and sellers. Please visit our websites for a full Malvern commercial real estate brokerage firm.

 

PNL Companies Sells Suburban Philadelphia Office Building for $15.5M

Dallas Investment Firm Divests Malvern Executive Center

PNL Companies, a full service investment firm headquartered in Dallas, sold a 91,190-square-foot office building in Malvern to a private investor. Malvern Executive Center sold for $15.5 million, or about $170 per square foot.

The three-story structure at 100 Deerfield Lane was built in 2003 and renovated in 2015. The 4-Star property spans nearly an acre less than 25 miles from Philadelphia International Airport.

The Class A building is 73 percent leased to ten tenants including Fox & Roach and USA Technologies.

The property provides both a current, stable cash flow and substantial value-add opportunity through the lease-up of existing vacancy, according to a press release issued by Newmark Knight Frank.

For more information about Malvern office space for sale or lease in Philadelphia or about any other Philadelphia commercial properties for sale or lease, please contact Christopher Henderson (215-799-6900; chris.henderson@wolfcre.com) or Jason Wolf (215-799-6900; jason.wolf@wolfcre.com) at Wolf Commercial Real Estate, a Malvern commercial real estate broker.

Wolf Commercial Real Estate, a full-service CORFAC International brokerage and advisory firm, is a premier Malvern commercial real estate broker that provides a full range of Malvern commercial real estate listings and services, property management services, and marketing commercial offices, medical properties, industrial properties, land properties, retail buildings and other Malvern commercial properties for buyers, tenants, investors and sellers. Please visit our websites for a full Malvern commercial real estate brokerage firm.

Construction Progress Monitoring Services

This article by Steve Sclarow explores the Construction Progress Monitoring (CPM) services being used in the construction of 1919 Market, a new high-rise residential building in Philadelphia.

Construction Progress Monitoring at 1919 Market (PDF)

construction-progress-monitoringPartner Engineering and Science is proud to be providing Construction Progress Monitoring (CPM) services for Philadelphia’s premier new residential tower, 1919 Market, a joint venture between LCOR and Brandywine Realty Trust (NYSE: BDN). Located in the heart of Center City, 1919 Market is a 28-story, 321 luxury apartment unit 455,000 square foot mixed-use development, with an integrated 215 car parking structure.

Innovation and facility functionality in the urban core is driving design decisions in Philadelphia’s residential marketplace. The amenities and features incorporated into 1919 Market reflect these needs including “a state of the art fitness center, clubroom, demonstration kitchen, golf simulator, dramatic outdoor roof entertainment center including a fire pit and infinity pool, tech bar and work pod area, wine tasting room with available wine storage, pet wash, bike storage and more.”

1919 Market’s innovation strategy provides a premier level of sustainability and green building design and the project is in the process of obtaining LEED Gold Certification. Features incorporated into the design will reduce the buildings overall environmental impact while enhancing the overall living experience of residents and tenants alike. LEED design elements include low-flow plumbing fixtures, faucets and showers, energy star rated appliances, energy efficient lighting systems, and operable windows in apartment units. Another distinct design consideration is the green roof located atop the parking structure. The green roof will reduce the developments overall carbon footprint by improving stormwater management, reducing the urban heat island effect and improving air quality. Strategically located above the parking structure, the green roof provides a distinctive vista for the residents of 1919 Market and neighboring tenants at 1900 JFK Boulevard.

The corner of 20th and Market Streets is at the epicenter of the Market West Corridor. 1919 Market solidifies the connection of this corridor to Center City’s urban core through the seamless integration of the five story parking structure and mixed-use residential tower. This will be accomplished by incorporating the tower’s curtain wall and storefront glazing system into the parking structure’s façade. Parking will accommodate residents and be available for daily and monthly public parking.

According to LCOR President, Thomas O’Brien, “This is an exciting time in Philadelphia, especially with the reinvigoration of Market West, and we are proud to be a part of its vertical growth. With 1919 Market, we take extreme pride in helping to reduce the city’s carbon footprint by creating a building that embodies and promotes green living. The overall goal is to build a space that can enhance the quality of life for our residents and our local community.”

Units are now available for lease with move-in starting in March 2016. For more information about 1919
Market, please visit www.1919marketapts.com 

Partner Engineering and Science, Inc. provides due diligence services for all stages of the real estate transaction. For more information about Partner, please visit www.partneresi.com

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Steve Sclarow, AIA

Project Manager, Construction Services
PARTNER ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE, INC.
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Malvern, PA 19355
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Premier Office Inventory Almost Full in Malvern

The vacancy rate for high-end office properties located along the Pennsylvania Turnpike and U.S. Route 202 in Malvern, PA, rose to almost 25 percent in the wake of the Great Recession, with pharmaceutical firms – including Pfizer and Endo Health Solutions – downsizing their footprints and putting large blocks on space on the market for lease.

But these same office properties in the U.S. commercial real estate market – including Malvern office space – have seen average vacancy rates decline steadily since 2011 and are down below five percent to start the second quarter of 2018 – the lowest level in more than 15 years.

This report on U.S. and Malvern commercial properties is being made through Malvern commercial real estate broker Wolf Commercial Real Estate, a Malvern commercial real estate brokerage firm focusing on Malvern office properties.

Another way to gauge the tightness of Malvern’s high-end office market is by comparing its availability rate – the percentage of office space listed as available for lease on CoStar – with availability rates in the national and Malvern commercial real estate markets. By this measure, Malvern is one of the tightest suburban office nodes throughout the entire Northeast region.

What explains the dramatic recovery in occupancies in these office properties located more than 25 miles from Philadelphia’s CBD?

For starters, recent infrastructure improvements near these national and Malvern commercial real estate properties have played a key role. In 2016, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation completed a three-year project widening Route 202 to six lanes between Conestoga Road and Route 30. This project, combined with an earlier installation of a new interchange between the Pennsylvania Turnpike and Route 29, has made Malvern more accessible to commuters coming in from nearby areas such as Exton, King of Prussia, and Downingtown.

By locating in Malvern, office tenants looking for more value in their U.S. and Malvern commercial real estate listings also can remain close to highly-educated workers in and around the Upper Main Line, while paying lower office rents than tenants in competing suburban submarkets closer to Philadelphia.

For example, at the start of the second quarter, the average listed rent for Four and Five Star office space in Malvern was about $24 per square foot, 20 percent below listed Four and Five Star rents in King of Prussia and 30 percent below listed Four and Five Star rents in Conshohocken.

All these selling points have helped coax firms in information technology, pharmaceuticals and finance to either move into the U.S. commercial real estate market – including Malvern office space – or to expand their existing offices within the area, in recent years.

For more information about Malvern office space and other Malvern commercial properties, please call 215-799-6900 to speak with Jason Wolf (jason.wolf@wolfcre.com) at Wolf Commercial Real Estate, a leading Malvern commercial real estate broker that specializes in Malvern office space.

Wolf Commercial Real Estate, a full-service CORFAC International brokerage and advisory firm, is a premier Malvern commercial real estate brokerage firm that provides a full range of Malvern commercial real estate listings and services, property management services, and marketing commercial offices, medical properties, industrial properties, land properties, office buildings and other Malvern commercial properties for buyers, tenants, investors and sellers.

Wolf Commercial Real Estate, a Malvern commercial real estate broker with expertise in Malvern commercial real estate listings, provides unparalleled expertise in matching companies and individuals seeking new Malvern office space with the Malvern commercial properties that best meets their needs.

As experts in Malvern commercial real estate listings and services, the team at our Malvern commercial real estate brokerage firm provides ongoing detailed information about Malvern commercial properties to our clients and prospects to help them achieve their real estate goals.  If you are looking for Malvern office space for sale or lease, Wolf Commercial Real Estate is the Malvern commercial real estate broker you need — a strategic partner who is fully invested in your long-term growth and success.

Please visit our websites for a full listing of South Jersey and Malvern commercial properties for lease or sale through our Malvern commercial real estate brokerage firm.