First Potomac Realty Trust Sells Industrial Park in Metro D.C. for $32.5M

LORTON, VA. — First Potomac Realty Trust has sold Newington Business Park Center, a seven-building, 256,000-square-foot industrial development in Lorton, roughly 20 miles south of Washington, D.C. An affiliate of Velsor Properties LLC purchased the industrial park for $32.5 million. The sale is part of First Potomac’s disposition strategy to sell at least $200 million of assets to improve the REIT’s balance sheet. HFF represented First Potomac in the transaction. As of Sept. 30, the industrial park was 83.3 percent leased.