Brandywine Realty Trust Closes $60 Million Mortgage Loan
08 Juli 2009 - 9:13PM
PR Newswire (US)
RADNOR, Pa., July 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Brandywine Realty
Trust (NYSE:BDN), a real estate investment trust focused on the
ownership, management and development of Class A, suburban and
urban office properties in the mid-Atlantic region and other
selected markets throughout the United States, announced today that
it has closed a $60 million first mortgage financing on One Logan
Square, a previously unencumbered, 594,361 square foot, 99% leased,
class A, office tower in Philadelphia, PA. The loan was provided by
PB Capital Corporation and features a floating rate of LIBOR plus
350 basis points (subject to a LIBOR floor) and a seven-year term
with three years interest only followed by a thirty-year
amortization schedule at a 7.5% rate. The net proceeds were used
for general corporate purposes including the repayment of existing
indebtedness. "We are very pleased to close the $60 million One
Logan mortgage loan," stated Howard M. Sipzner, Executive Vice
President and Chief Financial Officer of Brandywine Realty Trust,
"and together with the $89.8 million mortgage loan we closed in
April 2009 on the adjacent Two Logan Square office building, have
now addressed our entire $150 million mortgage financing goal for
2009. Following today's One Logan closing, we have just $2 million
outstanding on our $600 million revolving credit facility."
Brandywine was advised on the placement of this loan by Eastdil
Secured, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Company.
About Brandywine Realty Trust Brandywine Realty Trust is one of the
largest, publicly traded, full-service, integrated real estate
companies in the United States. Organized as a real estate
investment trust and operating in select markets, Brandywine owns,
develops and manages a primarily Class A, suburban and urban office
portfolio aggregating 37.3 million square feet, including 26.1
million square feet which it owns on a consolidated basis. For more
information, please visit our website at
http://www.brandywinerealty.com/. Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this release constitute "forward-looking
statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known
and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause
our and our affiliates' actual results, performance, achievements
or transactions to be materially different from any future results,
performance, achievements or transactions expressed or implied by
such forward-looking statements. Such risks, uncertainties and
other factors relate to, among others: our ability to lease vacant
space and to renew or relet space under expiring leases at expected
levels; competition with other real estate companies for tenants;
the potential loss or bankruptcy of major tenants; interest rate
levels; the availability of debt, equity or other financing; risks
of acquisitions, dispositions and developments, including the cost
of construction delays and cost overruns; unanticipated operating
and capital costs; our ability to obtain adequate insurance,
including coverage for terrorist acts; dependence upon certain
geographic markets; and general and local economic and real estate
conditions, including the extent and duration of adverse changes
that affect the industries in which our tenants operate. Additional
information on factors which could impact us and the
forward-looking statements contained herein are included in our
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008. DATASOURCE:
Brandywine Realty Trust CONTACT: Investor-Press, Marge Boccuti,
Manager, Investor Relations, +1-610-832-7702, ; or Company, Howard
M. Sipzner, EVP & CFO, +1-610-832-4907, Web Site:
http://www.brandywinerealty.com/
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