Franklin Street Properties Buys Pershing Park Plaza in Midtown Atlanta for $45.5M

ATLANTA — Franklin Street Properties Corp., a Wakefield, Mass.-based office REIT, has purchased Pershing Park Plaza in Midtown Atlanta for $45.5 million. The nine-story, 160,000-square-foot, Class A office building is located at 1420 Peachtree St. N.E. Franklin Street Properties plans to invest $1.8 million in capital improvements for Pershing Park Plaza, which is currently 97 percent leased to three tenants. International law firm Jones Day occupies roughly 88 percent of the office building’s rentable square footage. The acquisition brings Franklin Street Properties’ Midtown Atlanta office portfolio to more than 780,000 square feet.