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Key Facts
- National overview: On March 6, 2012, the American Bar Association said it entered into a 15-year lease with Washington Square Limited Partnership, LLP at 1050 Connecticut Ave. NW in Washington, D.C..
- National overview: The announcement said ABA would occupy 61,000 square feet within a 707,000-square-foot building at 1050 Connecticut Ave. NW..
- National overview: The announcement linked the 15-year lease to a Dec. 16, 2011 sale of ABA’s historic 175,000-square-foot building at 740 15th St. NW..
- National overview: The announcement said ABA staff and leadership, along with Studley brokers, spent nearly a year reviewing dozens of properties before the ABA Board of Governors approved the lease..
- National overview: The announcement said Studley negotiated both the sale of the 740 15th St. NW building and the new lease..
- National overview: The announcement described the 1050 Connecticut Ave. NW location as having a floor plate of approximately 55,000 square feet..
- National overview: The announcement stated that the new space would house all 250 of the ABA’s D.C.-based staff on one floor..
- National overview: During the recovery run, the legacy ABA Now URL returned HTTP 404 and an American Bar Association news-page URL variant returned an error..
This archive recovery preserves a 2012 announcement and the specific lease-and-move details the American Bar Association publicly described at the time; it does not confirm whether the lease term stayed active, changed, or ended later.
- What the announcement said about the lease deal
- Leased premises and space figures described in 2012
- The lease was tied to a prior ABA sale
- Approval process and broker roles described in the announcement
- Space planning and consolidation details stated for the new location
- What this archive recovery includes and does not include
- Related archive recovery on ABA facilities
- Sources
What the announcement said about the lease deal
In the March 6, 2012 announcement reprinted by EIN Presswire, the ABA stated that it “has entered into a 15-year lease” for space at 1050 Connecticut Ave. NW in Washington, D.C., with Washington Square Limited Partnership, LLP.
Leased premises and space figures described in 2012
The announcement said ABA would occupy 61,000 square feet of the 707,000-square-foot building at 1050 Connecticut Ave. NW, and it also described the location as having a floor plate of approximately 55,000 square feet.
The lease was tied to a prior ABA sale
The announcement presented the 1050 Connecticut Ave. NW lease as following a Dec. 16, 2011 sale of ABA’s historic 175,000-square-foot building at 740 15th St. NW in Washington, D.C.
Approval process and broker roles described in the announcement
The announcement said ABA staff and leadership, together with Studley brokers, spent nearly a year reviewing dozens of properties for lease or purchase before the ABA Board of Governors approved the competitive, long-term lease at 1050 Connecticut Ave. NW, and it said Studley negotiated both the sale of the ABA building and the new lease.
Space planning and consolidation details stated for the new location
The announcement said ABA staff was spread over seven floors in its current facility at the time of the announcement and that the new 1050 Connecticut Ave. NW space would “house all 250” of the ABA’s D.C.-based staff on one floor.
What this archive recovery includes and does not include
This recovery run builds from the EIN Presswire reprint of the announcement (see American Bar Association Enters 15-Year Lease), while the legacy ABA-hosted URLs used for the original post were not retrievable during this run, including the ABA Now legacy post (which returned an HTTP 404) and an ABA news page URL variant (which returned an error).
Related archive recovery on ABA facilities
An additional facility-focused archive recovery is ABA’s earlier headquarters move archive.