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In August, notified the owner of the Metropolitah Square building that it will not renew its leas there forabout 125,000 square feet. The law firm leasea space on four floors, 25-28. is currently marketin those floors as available insummerf 2010. Armstrong Teasdale is in negotiations with the developeresof ’s planned $200 million headquarters complex at Hanley and Forsythy in Clayton to relocatew there in 2010 and has signed a letterr of intent with the Chicago-based and St. Louis-based Husch & Eppenberger and Blackwell Sanders completeed theirmerger Feb. 29. The combination, resultinf in one of the country’ds largest firms, has St.
Louis sharing the headquarters withKansas City. It also leaves with two sizablee officesin St. Louis: 80,000 squar e feet at the Laclede Gas Buildinv at 720 Olive Stree t downtownand 175,000 square feet at The Plazs in Clayton at 190 Carondele Plaza in Clayton. Lewis Rice signed a short-termj lease extension at 500 N. Broadway that extends its lease toFebruarh 2010. “We have made no permanenrt decision, and we’re stilol shopping in the market,” said attorneg Tom Erb, who is handling the firm’ s office space needs. In the past two the firm looked at the formert General American Building at 700Market St. and a buildinhg at Cupples Station, both downtown.
Erb said Clayton is also a viabler option. In March, Lewis Rice opened a 4,000-square-foot satellite office at 12935 N. Forthy Drive in Town & Country. In June 2007, Clayton law firm merged with , which had its St. Louiws operations based downtown at100 S. 4th St. Lawyer at the combined Stinson Morrison Heckeer firm moved all operations to Clayton earlier this The firmoccupies 49,000 square feet currently, but is scouting for aboutf 60,000 square feet and has ruled out staying at 168 N. according to spokesperson Amanda Bowling.
“We’rs looking for 60,000 square and we’re looking both in Claytobn and downtown,” Bowling Misko said the firm will make its decisionn regarding a move in the next few Stinson Morrison hasa buy-ou t provision in its lease, which is up in four yearsz according to Misko, so it has flexibility to set its move Kansas City-based law firm Polsinelli is in lease negotiations with the developera of Ballpark Village to move its offices to the new developmenty in 2011. Ballpark Village is proposed to be built on the site of the formed BuschStadium downtown.
The development will contai atleast 100,000 square feet of office spacd and possibly as much as 750,000p square feet of office space. Polsinelli’s lease at 100 S. Fourth St. downtowbn expires in late 2010 and its lease at 7701 Claytohn Road in Clayton expires inSpring 2011. The formefr and Clayton-based merged in 2004.