Good morning and welcome to Boston Properties third quarter earnings call. (Operator Instructions) At this time I would like to turn the conference over to Mr. Arista Joyner, Investor Relations Manager for Boston Properties. Please go ahead.

Good morning, and welcome to Boston Properties third quarter earnings conference call. The press release and supplemental package were distributed last night, as well as furnished on Form 8-K. In the supplemental package, the company has reconciled all non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measure in accordance with Reg. G requirements. If you did not receive a copy, these documents are available in the Investor Relations section of our website at www.bostonproperties.com. An audio webcast of this call will be available for 12 months in the Investor Relations section of our website. At this time, we would like to inform you that certain statements made during this conference call which are not historical may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Although Boston Properties believes the expectations reflected in any forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, it can give no assurance that its expectations will be attained. Factors and risks that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by forward looking statements were detailed in Tuesday's press release, and from time to time in the company's filings with the SEC. The company does not undertake a duty to update any forward-looking statements. Having said that, I'd like to welcome Mort Zuckerman, Chairman of the Board; Ed Linde, Chief Executive Officer; Doug Linde, President, Ray Ritchey, Executive Vice President and National Director of Acquisitions and Development, and Mike LaBelle, Chief Financial Officer. Also during the question-and-answer portion of our call, our regional management team will be available to answer questions as well. I would now like to turn the call over to Doug Linde for his formal remarks.

Good morning everybody, and thanks for joining us for our third quarter conference call. Many of you were visiting with us and Boston last month for our investor conference, or some of you may have listened to the webcast, and you had the opportunity to hear Mort give a pretty in depth and frank assessment of the issues that are facing our financial system, as well as what he referred to as the adverse feedback that will be felt as the real economy contracts over the foreseeable future. In a few minutes Mort’s going to be on the phone to continue with that discussion. We, at Boston Properties, had our regularly scheduled board meeting last week, and one of our board members asked the question at the beginning of that meeting, “So, what keeps you all up and night?” And, I thought that this would be a pretty good place to begin my comments this morning. Last month we saw Lehman Brothers, who pays us $43 million a year in annual rent, file for bankruptcy, and Heller Ehrman, which pays us about $7.7 million, vote to dissolve. These events clearly came as a shock to us, and it made it clear that at the moment you can’t take anything for granted, and no organization as immune from significant disruption. So, what keeps me up at night are concerns about the stress our tenants are feeling and how their individual predicaments might affect our monthly receipt of rent. Now, I gain some comfort from the following facts. Our largest gross rent comes from Citibank, who pays us $77 million a year, the U.S. government that pays us $60 million, Lehman is third at $42 million, and Lockheed Martin is fourth at $33 million. In our portfolio of almost 1200 tenants, we…

Thanks, Doug. Good morning everyone. I want to start by discussing the leasing activity that we experienced this quarter. There’s been a dramatic deceleration of decision-making exhibited by tenants in the market since early September, when the financial crisis really entered an elevated state. Despite the pause in activity, we were successful with over 600,000 square feet of new leases commencing during the quarter. On average, these leases have rents that are 75% higher on a net basis than the prior leases. These rent increases were spread across Boston, New York, and San Francisco. Are weighted average transaction costs were $29.57 per square foot, in line with our projections, but higher than our prior quarters due to 40% of our leasing being in New York City at strong rents, but with commensurately high leasing commissions. While the terms of most of these leases were negotiated several months ago, it does point to the wide spread between in place rents and new transactions. Even if rents decline, we still expect a healthy mark to market across the portfolio. As Doug mentioned, we’ve not yet seen empirical evidence of widespread declines in taking rents, but we are expecting downward pressure and have reduced our market rents for analytical purposes. Even with our adjustments, the current mark to market on the portfolio remain significant at $8.69 per square foot, which includes our economic share of our joint ventures. Speaking of our joint ventures, in August we closed on the remaining assets from the Macklowe Organization, including 540 Madison Avenue, 125 West 55th Street, and 2 Grand Central Tower, as outlined in our press release. The accounting for these joint ventures, in which we owns 60%, is identical to the GM acquisition, and these assets will be treated as unconsolidated joint ventures. These buildings…

Hi, everybody, this is Mort Zuckerman speaking. Well, we’ve been in a period of extraordinary turmoil, really unprecedented in anybody’s life time on this phone call, and probably the most dramatic financial collapse or at least collapse of wealth in the history of this country. I would say that the financial collapse in this period of time is and will be greater than what happened during the Great Depression, but the actual decline in the real economy, the Main Street part of the economy, in my judgment, will be considerably less. For all kinds of reasons, I’ll just mention a couple of them. One is that we forget that in 1929 when the market crashed nothing really happened until the beginning of 1933 when, in March, FDR became the president, and things like federal deposit insurance and Social Security all happened in 1934 and ‘35, and that’s what began to improve the economy. But, in that interim period 40% of America’s banks failed, and we had a 1/3 decline in the money supply, which turned what could’ve been a serious recession into a major depression. Obviously, the speed with which the Federal authorities have reacted, both on the monetary side and on the fiscal side, has been quite dramatically different this time around. Nor have we the same kind of fiscal situation, in that, number one, the percentage of GDP in 1929 that the federal government made up was 3%, today it’s 21%, and we have a huge educational and medical complex that are more or less decoupled from the normal business community. And, finally, world trade, which dropped by 2/3 as a response of the rest of the world to the Smoot-Hawley Act in 1930, this time has been one of the strengths of the economy. Having said all…

Okay, I think I will open up the questions now operator, please.

Thank you sir. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the question-and-answer session. (Operator Instructions) Our first question comes from the line of Jay Habermann with Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead. Jay Habermann – Goldman Sachs: Hey, good morning, I’m here with (inaudible 00:45:13) as well. Doug and Mike, you guys gave pretty elaborate details on your 2009 guidance, and obviously assume the Lehman space and Heller Ehrman does remain vacant for the full year? And, you also talked about perhaps 70% of the space, perhaps some interest thus far for the Heller Ehrman thus far. Can you give us some updates, just in terms of where the Lehman space might stand in terms of tenant potential interest, and then, have you even had conversations yet with the potentially the private equity firms looking at that (inaudible 00:45:44) management business?

Well, let me give you the context of why we think the space may be down during 2009, which is that, I’ll use the space at Times Square Tower as sort of a starting point, which is if you’re a 100,000 square foot tenant and you’re looking to make a commitment, you’re probably not looking to make a commitment in two months because you have to be much further out in front of your space requirements. So, the tenants we’re talking to our tenants who are looking to take space at the end of 2009 or in the beginning of 2010. Which is why, even though we may have great activity, and we may actually be in a position where we can have a lease signed and have a commitment, we may not actually see rent commencement until sometime in 2010. With regards to the 399 space and Lehman Brothers, we do not believe that the space that is currently being utilized by effectively their asset management groups is long-term space, because quite frankly, most of their users are out of the building, and these are relatively small compared to the whole. So, we do anticipate that we’re going to get the space back. It’s possible that we may actually receive some income in 2009 from Lehman Brothers, because until they get out of all the space they don’t have the ability to reject the lease, and the good news is that when they went into bankruptcy we did not have any past due rent, so they are current on their obligations with us and they are required to remain current on a going forward basis. So, as long as they’re in the space we’re going to receive rent. We really just don’t have any clarity on how long that’s going to be. Jay Habermann – Goldman Sachs: Okay, and then with regard to, I’m sorry, the Lehman space still, have you seen any interest at this point?

One of the floors has already been sublet, and that was being done prior to the bankruptcy. We know that there was other interest in some of the space, but quite frankly Barclay’s and Lehman Brothers are no longer working cooperatively, and it’s Lehman Brothers Holding, which is the tenant under the lease, and Barclay’s, which is really, it’s assumed the Lehman Brothers people, is sort of doing their own thing. So, I think we’re sort of in a bit of the vortex of decision-making with regards to the entities. Jay Habermann – Goldman Sachs: Okay, maybe just a broader question either for Doug or for Mort. Given that the credit market freeze continues, I mean, have you given further thought to potentially even selling additional assets and raising your cash to deal with maturities in 2010 or 11?

Well, I think if we do anything at all, we’ll probably think of the possibility of bringing in a partner in one of the buildings, but that too is something that we would do very reluctantly. We really don’t see that we’re going to be in a position where we have to do it. We might if we do it on the basis of terms are satisfactory (audio gap 00:48:37) a general sort of weariness about this sort of partnership for sale on our part, we sold a lot of buildings, as you know, over almost $4.2 billion worth in the last half of 2006 and the first half of 2007. There isn’t a building that we own at this stage of the game that we really sort of wouldn’t want to hold for the longer term. So, we’re going to look to whatever it takes to maintain the ownership of these buildings, we think, unless we get a very, very attractive offer, which we certainly would be open to, at least on a partnership basis, I don’t think we want to sell any of our buildings. I think we’re just going to work with that assumption, I mean, I cannot tell you what’s going to happen over the next 18 months, but we’re not going to have any financial problems in our judgment over that period of time at all in terms of what we want to do. So, I think we’re just going to play it by ear at this stage of the game. Jay Habermann – Goldman Sachs: Okay, any additional updates on West 55th? I know it’s only been a few weeks since Boston, so.

Yeah, nothing that we can formally announce, but we’re still in serious conversations with various users and the construction is well underway. We’ve gotten through all of our major civic requirements now and we’re just going full speed ahead. Jay Habermann – Goldman Sachs: Okay, thank you.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Michael Bilerman with Citi. Please go ahead. Michael Bilerman – Citigroup: Hi, good morning, Irwin Guzman’s on the phone with me as well. So, in your opening comments, and Mort you just referenced it as well, you talked about partnership opportunities and sort of expanding your discussions with your worldwide contacts. Can you just expand a little bit, in terms of leveraging those discussions, of how you think of that in terms of raising capital? It sounded like you’re not going to move forward on doing joint ventures, but I was just trying to put those two comments together.

You know, it’s what I was saying before, look, we don’t have any hard and fast ideology on this, we’d be completely pragmatic. A lot would depend on what our various options are and what the market looks like. As I say, we’re happy that we have no pressure, whenever, on us to do anything. A lot will depend on whether the banks ever get back into construction financing on a reasonable basis, or whether there’s normal financing available. We have a lot of mortgages on properties that are very, very low in relation to value, which we would be in a position to refinance if that market is available. From our point of view, that’s probably the best way to raise additional capital, which is secured financing on existing assets. We have very, very low ratios in almost, in any number of buildings that, under normal circumstances, would be very easy to finance and on reasonable terms. We don’t know where the market’s going to be and that would be the, at least from our point of view, the easiest way to raise additional capital if we need it. Right now we don’t see that we’re necessarily going to need it, but we have a lot of time in which to look at all these various options. The good news is that you could take on number of major buildings that we have where the financing is in very low percentages in relation to the value, and when I say low on talking about 25, 30, 35%. So, you have all kinds of chances, if that is the easiest and most cost efficient way to raise additional money we would look at that. We would prefer to do it that way, frankly. We don’t want to dilute the equity…

Right, exactly. Michael Bilerman – Citigroup: And, Mort, you’ve talked a little bit about tenants wanting to trade up one they have the opportunity to trade up in a challenging market. Given the fact that this is unprecedented, what we’re in, and there is a significant pressure on trying to maintain costs, do you still think that’s going to be the same in this sort of environment relative to other environments?

Yeah. I mean, on one level I could say that I don’t know, but here’s the situation, for example, and we see this right now as we speak and we’re negotiating with tenants on this basis, there are tenants that are growing and they are in buildings are fully occupied, they have no expansion space in that building therefore they have to move. There are very few options available, if you want to move into good space. So, this is what makes our development, that are three years, or three and a half years, or even four years out, an attractive opportunity. The market in general may be tough, but the ability to find 300 to 400 to 500,000 square feet is very limited and you cannot, if you’re going to have to move in three or four years when your lease is up, and you’ve got 300,000 feet now and you’ll know you’re probably going to need 350,000 feet, you think you’re going to need 450,000 feet, you’ve got to go into a new building or at least into another building. That space at this point, say, for example, in New York City, in prime buildings, it’s just unavailable, and that has been typical. And, that’s why you have the opportunity, if you want to look at our 55th Street development, that’s what really, our experience, and we have experienced it. We’ve been very cautious, we have the opportunity, and this is the other side of the thing, if these financial sources begin to ease up we think we will be in a position to take advantage of them a lot sooner than everybody else, and there are tremendous acquisition opportunities available to us. We haven’t factored any of that in, because frankly we don’t know where the bottom is yet and therefore we’re not going to take any chances with all the liquidity and capital and equity that we have. You can’t be as bullish as we were a year ago, but we’re still moderately bullish going forward. Michael Bilerman – Citigroup: Okay, great. Thank you.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Mark Beffort with Oppenheimer and Company. Please go ahead. [Mark Beffort – Oppenheimer & Company]: Good morning guys. I guess my question, Doug, relates to the statement you made about taking a meaningful haircut to rents during the quarter, and I’m just wondering how long would it take for market rents to fall closer to in place rents if this is an extended down turn, say a year or two, and if you have any estimates, or what you’ve been hearing from tenants in terms of layoffs in each of your markets, and how much of that is built into your guidance for next year?

You know, I wish I was clairvoyant and could answer that question. I, unfortunately don’t have an ability, and quite frankly I think that it would be in our worst interest to predict the most dire circumstances associated with what’s going on in the markets we are in. I can tell you that a market like suburban Boston, rents haven’t dropped one iota, in fact, there are transactions that are being discussed today, rents that are at all time highs. In Washington, DC the rents that we’re talking about for 2200 Pennsylvania Avenue are probably 10% to 15% higher than the rents we achieved when we built 505 Ninth Street which opened up earlier this year. Now, in Manhattan, things are obviously going in the other direction, and although the range in differences is dramatic, and the difference between what the change in value might be on a building on Park Avenue or a building like the General Motors building, I think, are going to be very different than the range of what’s going to happen on a building on Third Avenue or building that doesn’t have the kind of capital behind it, from an ability to do transactions and maintain building infrastructure like our buildings and I think the weak and the strong are going to clearly be differentiated. I can’t answer the question in terms of how long or what the numbers might be.

Let me mention one other thing, in addition to that. You know, tenants do not easily shop around for building to building. Why, because there are huge tenant improvement costs that are affiliated with any move, and tenants don’t want to take on those additional costs. So, what you have is a situation where, even when your space comes up, you have an advantage when a tenant is in place and has already spent all his TI costs to renew and to renew at a rent that, in a sense, takes into account that he, the tenant, doesn’t have to pay, who knows, 75 to 100 to $125 a foot of additional improvement costs. So, you always have that advantage, and all of those moving costs really are able to be reflected in a higher renewal rent. Secondly, you look at the Heller Ehrman space, that lease was done quite a number of years ago. The rents have moved up dramatically since then. So, the difference between what the rent was then, and even what any kind of reduced rate may be now, it’s still a positive number for us. So, it doesn’t mean that every time we have space that comes on that the rents are going to go down. Very often, in fact, the rents will go up. They may not go up as much as they would have otherwise gone up, but they will go up, I think, in buildings like that which were completed seven or eight years ago. There’s no question that they will go up. So, the picture is always a little bit different than the reality of it, than it sounds when you look at it on an overall basis. The specifics of a building, and the specifics of a rent, and where the space is in the building really make a huge difference. I mean, the Lehman Brothers space, for example, is basically space that is below $100 a foot in 399 Park. 399 Park is one of the best buildings in the city of New York. So, we have the chance to really be competitive in the Lehman space. As I say, we’re not counting on it for the next year, but we have the chance to be competitive in the leasing space simply because of where the rentals are. And, those are the kinds of things that, on one level it sounds worse and it really is, it doesn’t mean we’re going to find a tenant, but it does mean that we’re going to get the advantage of where the Lehman rent was originally done, which was quite a number of years ago. [Mark Beffort – Oppenheimer & Company]: Okay, thanks, and then, we’re already in development, I’m just wondering what your expectations are in terms of yields looking ahead, given the expectation for higher interest costs and also the slower lease up expectations.

I’ll answer the question in a bit of a cagey manner, which is the yields are a lot higher than they were a year and half ago. When cap rates on existing assets were between, call it, 4.5 and 6%, developed yields of 7.5 and 8% were probably acceptable for going in returns. When we don’t know where cap rates are going to go and we don’t know where existing high quality assets are going to trade, but the development returns are going to need to be in excess of that in order for us to make sense of doing something else. [Mark Beffort – Oppenheimer & Company]: Okay, thanks.

Thank you, our next question comes from the line of Steve Sawka with Merrill Lynch, please go ahead. Steve Sawka – Merrill Lynch: Thanks, just a couple of quick questions Doug. I think you gave a mark to market number of $8.69 this quarter, do you remember what that number was last quarter?

Mike gave it. Steve Sawka – Merrill Lynch: Okay, we’ll put it on Mike.

Last quarter, I don’t remember the exact number, but last quarter we did not break out the joint ventures for our share and I think that we indicated that it was in the mid to high 9’s for just our portfolio, and it was, like, 13 for the GM building. Steve Sawka – Merrill Lynch: Okay, thanks. Secondly, could you just talk about the cost at 250 West 55th? I think it went up $70 million from the last supplemental, I was wondering if you had any comments on that.

This is Ed. Yeah, it came from re-budgeting the job, but also from taking, and some of this is lease related, but taking a look at what we needed to do to meet certain tenant requirements and also there were some delays that were caused because of having to get certain approvals from the city, etcetera, and work out some arrangements with adjoining property owners, and all that had to be baked into the budget and that’s what we’ve done. Steve Sawka – Merrill Lynch: So, I guess in terms of the cost, is some of that effectively going to be captured through higher rent, or is that just effectively a reduction in the yield?

I think it’s a little of both. Steve Sawka – Merrill Lynch: Okay, and then, can you just maybe talk about, you pushed the stabilization date out about a year there, is that city approval related, is that just problems landing a large tenant, any thoughts there would be helpful.

Sure, it’s pretty simple actually. In order to start the whole, which is now underway, we needed to deal with the litigation which was brought upon us by the fact that a (inaudible 01:03:36) was not allowing us rights to get into his property to “stabilize” it, as we were doing our excavation, and then the amazing amount of construction accidents across the city of New York put a very rigorous and munch lengthier approval process on our ability to underpin existing buildings and do the work that we were doing, and effectively we lost six months of time. And, so, that six months sort of pushed out in terms of our schedule for construction. Now, are we going to have a chance to make some of that up? We hope we do, but we’re, as we always are, we tend to try to give you the facts as we know them today and as things change we will update.

Let me make two comments on that. One of the delays was caused by somebody with whom we had a prior legal agreement and we had to go to court to enforce it, and we were completely successful in court, but frankly this was somebody who was trying to force us, through this delay, to buy his property. So, we would not do that, of course, and we had to go to court and we lost several months in that. But, let me also say to you, that the number that you have seen, again, to some extent it’s based on the following─ The parts of the job that we have not bought out yet are now going to be bought out in improving, shall we say, construction market, and any possible improvements in that, frankly, we have not yet baked into it. But I know there was one contract, or sub-contract, where we really did bring it in just the last couple of days, $3 million under our estimate. So I believe that the $70 million will be at the outside range of what our possible costs of overrun might be. Steve Sawka – Merrill Lynch: Okay, and just lastly, I don’t know if Ray or somebody else wants to comment, I guess the releasing spreads in Washington were down about 10%. It was, I guess, the weakest market this quarter. Any comments there would be helpful.

I’ll comment on that; two things. One is there was a mathematical mistake in one of the numbers which we actually caught last night after the supplement analysis. The numbers are still negative, though, but its -3% or -4% and it’s solely responsible, the sole responsibility in terms of that decline is some leases that we did in our Montgomery County properties. It has nothing to do with northern Virginia or our Springfield assets, and it was still down 3% to 4%. Steve Sawka – Merrill Lynch: Okay, thanks.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Jordan Sadler with Keybanc Capital Markets. Please go ahead. Jordan Sadler – Keybanc Capital Markets: Thank you, good morning. I’m trying to reconcile, I guess, your overall elective view of the world, which is pretty sober with your overall liquidity and sort of what your plans are in terms of shoring up additional liquidity in advance of not only the maturities which you discussed, but also the development spending that lies ahead of you over the next few years. So be it through added sales or additional financing, some of your peers have been, maybe their account to the economy have not been as draconian, but they’ve drawn down on their lines and hoarded cash. You guys don’t seem to be doing that, but I’m just thinking where do you stand in your thinking in terms of liquidity?

Well, I’ll answer the question in a couple different ways. First of all, I have to be honest with you, I don’t believe that the banks in this country are going to renege on their commitments with regards to lines of credit and other types of facilities with which they have contractual agreements. Now if a company is unable to maintain its bond covenants or is in default and therefore can’t pull down what those facilities might be, I can clearly, you would obviously drop before that occurred. But that’s just a general statement. So we are comfortable with not maintaining a $900 million cash balance and having the availability of a $900 million revolving line of credit which goes out to 2011. That being said, we are going to aggressively try and finance as appropriately as we possibly can additional assets between now and the end of 2010, and we are in discussions and we are in the market right now with a number of assets, as Mike described to raise additional liquidity so that we can have even more capital associated with what we might find as opportunities at some point in the future, although I will tell you that we are very, very, very cautious about doing anything other than what we have to do to live up to our existing commitments with regards to our development pipeline. So we feel like we’re in a really good place right now from a liquidity perspective. We’re going to try and enhance that as much as possible. We will do it through secured financing if that’s the most auspicious way of doing it, but if the unsecured bond market were to normalize, rationalize, become open, it’s certainly another market that we have access to given our ratings, and we would take advantage of that as well. So we are not going to limit ourselves to anything. We are going to pursue everything and we are going to be judicious about making the kind of decisions that we should make to increase our liquidity as it’s appropriate. Jordan Sadler – Keybanc Capital Markets: That’s helpful. The $300 million to $500 million in Mike’s guidance for next year, is that additive to the Embarcadero Financing that’s expected to close later this year?

Yes, that $375 million that we are very, very close to closing in the next few weeks, so that would be in addition to that financing where we would put those in place and plan for next year. You know, in addition, on our development pipeline that we do have in place, and Doug mentioned this, Russia Wharf, we’re in the process of putting together a construction loan on that that will fund all of the remaining costs associated with that project. And we also have, as we mentioned, cash flow of in excess of $100 million a year coming off the portfolio. Jordan Sadler – Keybanc Capital Markets: What’s the expected rate on the Russia Wharf deal?

You know, the pricing, we’ve been pleasantly surprised with the reaction from the banks that are in our line of credit, and these are banks that have been our partners and our team players for years, with respect to their availability of the credit and their desire to participate in it. The pricing for construction financing is increased from in the low-100’s to high 200-s, even potentially 300 basis point over (inaudible 01:10:41) for that financing. And, as Doug mentioned, the terms have become tighter, too, so the level of recourse and things like that has also increased. But the credit from the banks is available and they are consistently saying that they want to be there for their existing, strong clients. Jordan Sadler – Keybanc Capital Markets: Okay. So the company will probably guarantee that facility?

I wouldn’t suggest that we would guarantee the entire facility, but as is typical with our construction financing, we guarantee a portion of it and the amount of the guarantee is commiserate with the amount of speculative market risk that is associated with the project. Now this project is primarily leased with the Wellington lease, so we would typically see a guarantee that would be 25% or less, and it will likely be more than that because of the environment today. Jordan Sadler – Keybanc Capital Markets: That’s helpful. And just separately, Doug, I think in your commentary you said that a majority of the deals post-September 30 basically came to a halt, or were put on hold, maybe you said, and I was just curious is that meant leasing in general overall has really ceased?

I think that’s an accurate and fair statement to say that unless a tenant had a lease expiration, they basically sort of said time-out, we have to sort of get our feet undressed, we need to understand the context of the market that we’re in and we’re just not prepared to go forward with the lease that we are otherwise prepared to go forward with a day before. And things haven’t really changed much, I think. There has been a recognition that the volatility that we’ve all experienced over the past month isn’t going to change probably anytime soon and so that you can only put your decision on hold for so long because if you need the space, you’re going to have to do something about it. So things just seem to be slowly melting, but I’d say it’s not going to be a rapid swing back to normalcy. Jordan Sadler – Keybanc Capital Markets: Thank you.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Mitch Germaine with Banc of America. Please go ahead. Mitchell Germaine – Banc of America Securities: Doug, just back to your comments on a lower credit score, do you think this is going to be more on a select basis or more widespread in the industry?

I think it’s going to be widespread in the industry. I’m not speaking for all of the banks, but in general I think most institutions have been given the mandate to reduce their leverage, and one of the ways you reduce your leverage is to overall reduce the amount of credit that you’re providing to all of your customers, and I think there are two things that are going to go on. There are a number of customers of these institutions who will no longer get any credit and then the really good customers will get their credit reduced over time until the time that the balance sheets of these institutions get big enough so that they can start thinking about growing their loan balances. But right now I think they were going in the other direction. Mitchell Germaine – Banc of America Securities: Great, that’s helpful. And any way I can get an update on some of the discussions you’ve had with City? It seems like previously they were shedding space at City Center. Then I’ve read some published reports that they’re consolidating some space, so any update on kind of the discussions you have with them?

You’re talking about City Group Center? Mitchell Germaine – Banc of America Securities: Yes.

Citibank and City Group Center is, I think, still net/net looking to reduce their commitment from a financial perspective, and they are in discussions with tenants to sublet space and as those discussions get closer and closer to happening, they come to us because City has eight years left on their lease. Generally these tenants want to make 15 to 20 year commitments and so they come to us and say, okay, can we negotiate a stub, and that’s one of the things that Mort was referring to in his comments where we had a company that was going to take a couple hundred thousand square feet of Citibank space and we were going to give them a stub on top of that. I don’t think that those circumstances have changed. Mitchell Germaine – Banc of America Securities: Thank you.

Thank you. Our next question is from the line of Michael Knott with Green Street Advisors. Please go ahead. Michael Knott – Green Street Advisors : Yes, hypothetically if you had not done the GM deal earlier this year and it was in the market now, A, would you consider it, and then, B, would you cap rate this probably 100 basis points higher, 150? Any comments there would be helpful. Thanks.

Well, again, I think the General Motors building from the analysis that we did was at a cap rate which was already considerably higher than what it would have been the year before. We think there was a 20% difference in the price that we paid compared to what it would have been a year earlier from $3.5 billion down to say $2.8 billion, which is what we paid for it. But the important thing in the General Motors building is, A, that we have very little space that’s rolling over in the next few years and, B, the space that is rolling over, in fact the space on average in the building is somewhere around 50% of where we think the market is to this day. I mean, we’re doing, there’s just very little space, so it’s interesting. We have one tenant there that we’ve read about in the newspaper, might be having difficulty with taking a floor. But when we looked at the rent and we looked at the improvements to the space and we looked at the security deposit, we relaxed about it. If it happens, it happens; if it doesn’t happen, it doesn’t happen. Who knows what it would have been sold for, I can’t tell you that. We could still, in my judgment, sell the building today for a higher price than we paid for it. Michael Knott – Green Street Advisors : Okay, and then on the development pipeline, you touched on this in a few different ways today, but it looks like you have about $1.4 billion left to invest in the current pipeline. Can you summarize for us your thoughts on how you’ll fund that over the next years between development, construction loans, etc?

I think that the simple answer, Michael, is that everything is going to have a construction loan if it doesn’t already have one, other than 250 W. 55th St, which is the one entity that we are realy funding off of our available cash and our line of credit. Michael Knott – Green Street Advisors : Thank you.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Wilkes Graham with Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co. Wilkes Graham – Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co.: Can you just give a little more color on the 200,000 sq ft that rolls over next year and maybe even the 600,000 sq ft that rolls over in 2010? I know you can’t comment, or you can predict where the market rents will be, but the expiring rents are $70 to $75 in that 800,000 sq ft space or so. Can you give any color on where market rents are today in those specific spaces? And I don’t mean (audio interruption), but I just mean in general given where those leases are and maybe what buildings they’re in, can you talk at all about what rents are today and where they’ve gone next year?

I missed the first part of your question. Are you talking about our New York City exposure? Wilkes Graham – Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co.: Yes.

Okay. The vast majority of our expiring rents in 2009 are in 599 Lexington Ave, and a significant portion of that is under negotiation. The rents are going to be, as I said, in the upper end of that $70 to $140 sq ft range. So I’m not going to sort of try and tighten it any more than that. And then in 2010, there are some leases that expire at City Group Center, the largest of which there’s a tenant right now who, as of November 1, has to notify us as to whether or not they want the expansion rights to that space and our expenses that they are going to take, the vast majority of it. And then the other space is at the GM Building and it’s in the lower floors of the General Motors Building, it’s actually General Motors who’s moving out of that building in 2010 to move over to (inaudible 01:18:59). That’s sort of where that space is; that space, again, is well in excess of what the current market rents are in that space and, again, it’s between $140 and $200 a square foot.

You know, we just signed a lease at city Group Center for $140 a foot, closer to the, it’s in the top side of the building, but it’s still $140 a foot. So that, again, that’s the kind of market that exists for that space and I don’t think that’s going to change very much. We don’t have very much to lease, but I don’t think it’s going to change very much. Wilkes Graham – Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co.: Okay. I guess just another quick question. You guys have mentioned it and we’ve heard it from brokers, as well, that the only deals going on today and recently are just lease renewals. I think, Matt, does that give you guys greater comfort that you’re not going to have material issues resigning your renewals over the next couple of years if we stay in this environment?

Yes, I mean we don’t think so, as I said, in part for the reasons that I mentioned, which is that somebody moves one way or the other, it’s going to have a big cost in moving and they’d just as soon stay in their existing space and re-up in that space. What the rents will be, I don’t want to predict that, but I must say to you we haven’t seen any dramatic drop-off in those rents. The only issue is how much of an improvement over the existing rents will we get, and maybe that improvement is slightly reduced from what we would have thought six months ago, but it’s still going to be improvement. So it’s hard to predict where the real estate market will be in a year or two because if you have some continued activity in the financial world, I mean a lot of the financial tenants, bear in mind, are downtown. I think downtown is very different from mid-town. Mid-town on the east side is very different than mid-town on the west side. We’re basically exclusively in mid-town on the east side, which is the most desirable location. And, frankly, people will be cautious of their costs, but a lot of these friends still want to move in because they want to hire good people. And that is a part of the work environment for a lot of these people. So I don’t want to say that we’re not worried, but we don’t lose sleep over the worries, I’ll put it that way and we think we’re going to come out in reasonably good shape. As I tried to say before, in one sense we’re in an unprecedented kind of financial meltdown. How quickly it can be restored given also the equally unprecedented responses on the part of the government, is anybody’s guess. And we have all kinds of problems in New York City and New York State with big tax revenue issues that they’re each going to face, and there will be budget cuts and everything like that. But I know in New York City, the Mayor has been through this once before and one of the things he understood was you don’t really cut city services. If you want to, you can raise taxes a little bit, but don’t cut city services because that’s key to the long term health of the city. And New York City is still the place for a lot of people in the tenant worlds that we work within that they would rather be in. That is the great advantage of New York City, particularly in mid-town and particularly on the upper east side of mid-town. There’s basically, we literally, we do not feel that we have a single competitive new building coming on the market over the next four years that would, for example, compete with our building on 8th Avenue.

Let me just add one last thing, Wilkes, on your comment which is I don’t believe that where we’re going to experience sort of bad news is on our existing rollover of space. As I said before, sort of where it started which is I think where everyone has the potential to be the blow-ups associated with a tenant that, for whatever reason, has got himself into a challenging predicament. I mean, the dissolution of a law firm is something that sort of hasn’t been talked about since the mid-80s and, lo and behold, Heller dissolved and if you read the Wall Street Journal today, there’s another law firm called (inaudible 01:23:33), which is also apparently going to dissolve. Now the good news is that there are going to be winners and losers. And so when a firm like (inaudible 01:23:40) or Heller Ehrman dissolves, those partners are not simply going to evaporate and walk out of the work force. They’re going to go work for other larger, more thriving law firms. And, for example, it was reported that Nixon Peabody was going to be the beneficiary of a number of the partners from Fielding. Well, Nixon Peabody happens to be a tenant of Boston Properties in San Francisco, as well as in Washington DC. And to the extent that we have available space in those properties where Nixon has leases that goes through 2019 and 2020, chances are we may be the beneficiaries of some of the positive that come out of some of these bad situations. And you just don’t know how all that is going to work itself out, but I think that’s where there’s going to be the friction in our portfolio for the good or for the bad over the next year or so. Wilkes Graham – Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co.: Thanks, I appreciate it.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Nick Persos with McCord. Please go ahead. [Nick Persos – McCord] : Good morning. Given the current cautious pessimistic environment of your four key markets that you can concern however you wish, which of your markets are you most and least concerned with for the foreseeable future and why?

I’ll try and do this as quickly as I possibly can. So if you define our four markets in Boston, Washington DC, New York City, and San Francisco, and you’re defining them as TDDs, I would say that the strongest market is Boston, followed by Washington DC, followed by San Francisco, and followed by New York. If you’re talking about the suburban markets, the Boston markets are clearly strongest, Cambridge and Waltham market, followed by northern Virginia in the Reston marketplace, not in the overall market, and followed by the greater peninsula. Just because we haven’t talked about it, we’ve actually signed 70,000 sq ft of new leases in our Mountain View Properties down in Silicon Valley in the last two or three days. So there is activity in the suburban markets that people really aren’t talking about or people aren’t reading about. So that would be my quick and dirty viewpoint. [Nick Persos – McCord]: Great, thank you.

That it, Operator?

Yes, at this time there are no additional questions. I’ll turn it back to management for any closing remarks.

Okay, thank you everyone, and we will see many of you, I’m sure, at NARED (ph 01:26:09) in San Diego in a couple weeks. Have a good day.

Thank you ladies and gentlemen, that does conclude our conference for today. (Operator Instructions) We’d like to thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.