Softer Washington Market Still Draws Interest
By TERRY PRISTIN
WASHINGTON -- Nearing completion in this city's East End, a rapidly developing area popular with large law firms, is a new high-end office building that has been grafted onto a Hecht's department store. The six-story white-and-tan building, known as One Metro Center, has a sky lobby and sits directly over the Metro Center subway hub.
What One Metro Center, at 701 13th Street NW, does not have is a roster of tenants. Ropes & Gray, a law firm, has signed a letter of intent for 40,000 square feet, and the newspaper publisher Knight Ridder has signed one for 25,000, but the rest of the building's 421,000 square feet has yet to be spoken for.
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