Jerry Sweeney
Analyst · Evercore ISI. Your line is now open
Yes, it certainly, Rob. Hey, good morning. Right now, we are working on Phase 1, which will ultimately consist of two buildings. We anticipate one building will be life science with a smaller office component kind of innovative office with a retail base with some parking. And the other building will be office and residential, the smaller scale than we have here at FMC. So, less office space about 300 apartment units and we are working through all the – obviously the complications involved in designing and citing those buildings and that was one of the reasons why we went ahead and bought those two land parcels to give us complete flexibility in terms of geo tech work, access, et cetera to make sure we get all the detailed work done. Brandywine is out in the market trying to identify anchored tenants for the office component. We have a nice pipeline of deals which is again providing some visibility for us, Rob, on how much we want to size the office component. Our residential partner has completed all their market due diligence. They are very excited about the site, very excited about moving forward. So we certainly are pleased with that, as the same with our life science partner who believes that Philadelphia is an untapped opportunity for the life science businesses. We think our location and proximity to major anchor institutions, the level of NIH funding coming into the city, the continued growth of the healthcare systems provides a very, very viable program to move forward on. So, in the next couple quarters as we finalize the planning process, we will be able to size the buildings more appropriately. But our overall deal, just to refresh everyone’s memory on Schuylkill Yards, is that, only about half of the square feet that we are anticipating to build would be office. And office in that definition includes traditional office, innovative office, life science and academic space. So, we certainly think within the overall rubric of the five million plus square feet, over a period of time developing two million plus of office space which encompasses those definitions, we’ll certainly be able to be met by market demand and then the ability to devote the other square footage to residential, retail and hospitality, we think really gives us an amazing opportunity to create great neighborhood that is adjacent to the third business train station in the country, as well as a number of premier academic and medical research institutions.