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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — BASF Corp. is the latest tenant to be announced for The Green at Florham Park, a 268-acre master-planned community in Florham Park. The chemical company will occupy a new 325,000-square-foot office building that is being developed for it by the community's master developer, Rockefeller Group Development Corp. The new building, which will serve as BASF's North American headquarters, will be constructed to LEED-Platinum specifications. Construction is expected to begin in July, with completion slated for mid-2012. BASF will join a roster of notable tenants. The first is Atlantic Health, which is developing a four-story, 100,000-square-foot sports medicine facility know as the Atlantic Sports Health Institute. The medical facility will be situated adjacent to the project's other major tenant, the New York Jets. The pro football team is constructing a 27-acre campus that will contain the team's headquarters facilities as well as a 120,000-square-foot training center. The complex will also contain the Renaissance ClubSport by Marriott, a 250-room hotel that will feature a high-end spa and a 75,000-square-foot sports club. Additional development planned for The Green at Florham Park will include a total of approximately 800,000 square feet of office space as well as a 425-unit senior …

SOCIAL CIRCLE, GA. — Rockefeller Group Development Corporation has completed a 1.5 million-square-foot distribution center in Social Circle, Georgia. The property is the largest LEED-Gold certified industrial building in the U.S. and second largest in the world. It was built for tenant General Mills. RGDC and General Mills originally sought LEED-Silver certification for the building, but the number of credits accrued in five green design categories exceeded the number of credits needed for LEED-Silver.? ?To qualify for LEED-Gold certification, the building was constructed with state-of-the-art green building practices and achieved the following benefits: • 48.9% reduction in water use with low-flow plumbing fixtures • Energy-efficient light fixtures, occupant sensors, high-efficiency HVAC systems, roof mounted up-blast exhaust fans and wall louvers account for a 50.2% more energy efficient performance over a typical industrial buildings • 33.88% of the materials used on the project were composed of pre-consumer and post-consumer recycled content • 77.2% of the construction waste was diverted from landfills (recycled) by sorting the materials and sending them to the appropriate recycling centers • 55.13% of the construction materials were extracted, processed or manufactured within 500 miles of the project site, helping bolster the local economy • Each area of …

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. — A joint venture partnership between Rockefeller Group Development Corp. and MeadWestvaco Corp. will begin construction on a 1.1-million distribution center in the fourth quarter. Completion is slated for late next year. The warehouse will be located in the Rockefeller Group Foreign Trade Zone/Charleston near the interchange of Interstate 26 and Jedburg Road in Berkeley County. The tire company TBC Corp. will base its East Coast wholesale operations at the property. “We are excited about the opportunity to consolidate a portion of our distribution network to a new and larger facility in the Charleston area,” Erik Olsen, president of TBC, said in a press release. “The infrastructure and location of the Port of Charleston complements our growth and will allow us to meet the growing demands of our customers.” Access to the port will give TBC easy access to foreign suppliers, and the firm expects to bring thousands of containers through the port each year. The public/private effort involved participation from a number of government agencies in the Charleston area. Representatives from the state senate, the county government and the South Carolina Department of Commerce all assisted in getting TBC to the county. “From the state level …