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CommonGrounds Comes to Philly with 1700 Market Lease

Flexible workspace provider CommonGrounds Workplace is expanding to Philadelphia, signing a long-term lease for 62,461 square feet at 1700 Market in Center City. The workplace is scheduled to open late January 2020.

This is the sixth CommonGrounds lease signed in 2019, as part of the company’s $100-million Series A funding expansion program. The company will build its new space over two floors at the 875,000-square-foot office tower.

“As a former resident of Philadelphia, it is an honor to announce our new location coming to 1700 Market,” said CommonGrounds CEO Jacob Bates. “The Center City location is fantastic, sitting just a few blocks between City Hall and Rittenhouse Square.”

CBRE’s Joseph Wolff, Kevin Maloney, George Cauffman and David Mendez represented 1700 Market’s owner, Shorenstein Company. Jim Suber with Strategic Real Estate Advisory and Michael Gallagher with The Flynn Company represented CommonGrounds in the negotiations.

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About Paul Bubny

Paul Bubny serves as Senior Content Director for Connect Commercial Real Estate, a role to which he brings 16-plus years’ experience covering the commercial real estate industry and 30-plus years in business-to-business journalism. In this capacity, he oversees daily operations while also reporting on both local/regional markets and national trends, covering individual transactions across all property types, as well as delving into broader subject matter. He produces 7-10 daily news stories per day and works with the Connect team and clients to develop longer-form content, ranging from Q&As to thought-leadership pieces. Prior to joining Connect, Paul was Managing Editor for both Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com at American Lawyer Media, where he oversaw operations at both publications while also producing daily news and feature-length articles. His tenure in B2B publishing stretches back into the print era, and he has served as Editor in Chief on four national trade publications. Since 1999, Paul has volunteered as the newsletter editor of passenger rail advocacy groups (one national, one local).

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