COPT Completes Second Close of New Data Center Shell Joint Venture with Blackstone Real Estate
COLUMBIA, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Corporate Office Properties Trust (“COPT” or the “Company”) (NYSE: OFC) has completed the second and final close of its new joint venture with funds affiliated with Blackstone Real Estate (the “Blackstone Funds”), which was previously announced on November 2, 2020. The Blackstone Funds acquired a 90% interest in six data center shell properties that contain 979,000 square feet and were valued at $203 million. COPT received approximately $84 million of equity value from the transaction for its 40% interest. The remaining equity value was distributed to a prior investor who held a 50% interest in these assets. The completion of this transaction follows the Blackstone Funds’ earlier acquisition of a 90% interest in two of COPT’s wholly owned data shell properties valued at $90 million.
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Blackstone Mortgage Trust, Inc. (NYSE: BXMT) declared a dividend of $0.62 per share of class A common stock with respect to the fourth quarter of 2020. This dividend is payable on January 15, 2021 to stockholders of record as of the close of business on December 31, 2020.
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Blackstone (NYSE: BX) today announced that Blackstone Property Partners Life Sciences (“BPPLS”) will acquire a best‐in‐class, 2.3 million square foot portfolio of lab office buildings from a Brookfield Asset Management real estate fund for $3.45 billion. BPPLS is Blackstone Real Estate’s long-term, perpetual capital, core+ return life sciences strategy that owns BioMed Realty, Blackstone’s life science real estate portfolio company. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2021 subject to customary closing conditions.
Approximately 90% of the portfolio being acquired is concentrated in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Following the completion of the transaction, Blackstone will become the largest life science office owner in Cambridge, and BioMed Realty, which will have an enterprise value of approximately $20 billion, will have two-thirds of its platform concentrated in the Boston