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Highwoods Renews Lease at Century Center in Atlanta
Jan 18, 2008

Highwoods Properties Inc. has announced that it has renewed a lease for 221,000 square feet at 2800 Century Center in Atlanta. This lease was set to expire in January 2009 and, and was the firm's largest up for renewal. It has been extended through July 2014. The firm also announced that it has signed a 25,000 square foot lease at Highwoods Bay Center I in Tampa. This 208,000 square foot, $42 million, Class A office building started as a 100 percent speculative project in May 2006, and is now 78 percent pre-leased. Highwoods Bay Center I is slated to reach stabilization by year-end 2008. Neither leasees were named in the announcement.

 
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