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Old Posted Jun 3, 2015, 5:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Larry King View Post
who the hell is leasing all of this office space
From the Inquirer article for which I posted the link:

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Combining the properties to be developed as a whole gives the partners greater flexibility that can help them build facilities for the big corporations that they hope to attract, said Stephen Tang, the center's chief executive.

"We've got more options in terms of pure real estate," said Tang, who declined to provide a budget for the projects. "The thing that we are very excited about is this ability to create an anchor tenant corporate headquarters or significant corporate site."

Tang mentioned Cambridge, Mass., which has attracted big life science and medical entities such as the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, as a model of what the Philadelphia center is trying to achieve.

Google's placement of a laboratory in Pittsburgh to tap technology talent from Carnegie Mellon University was another example.

"I think those are great candidates for the kind of company we'd love to have here in University City to collaborate with the great institutions that are all around us," such as the University of Pennsylvania, Drexel University, and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, he said.
http://www.philly.com/philly/busines...Mx9C1O5cf73.99
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