COLUMBIA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Corporate Office Properties Trust (NYSE: OFC) recently executed three leases totaling 460,000 square feet. In Northern Virginia, the Company completed long-term leases with a Fortune 500 company for two build-to-suit developments totaling 420,000 square feet on land the Company owns. Additionally, in Huntsville, AL, the Company leased 39,000 square feet to the U.S. Government at 100 Secured Gateway, which is now 100% leased.

With these transactions, management has achieved its goal of completing one million square feet of development leasing in 2020. Based on the 2.0 million square feet of opportunities in its Development Leasing Pipeline, COPT’s management expects to experience continued strong demand for its locations in 2021.

About COPT

COPT is a REIT that owns, manages, leases, develops and selectively acquires office and data center properties. The majority of its portfolio is in locations that support the United States Government and its contractors, most of whom are engaged in national security, defense and information technology (“IT”) related activities servicing what it believes are growing, durable, priority missions (“Defense/IT Locations”). The Company also owns a portfolio of office properties located in select urban/urban-like submarkets in the Greater Washington, DC/Baltimore region with durable Class-A office fundamentals and characteristics (“Regional Office Properties”). As of September 30, 2020, the Company derived 88% of its core portfolio annualized rental revenue from Defense/IT Locations and 12% from its Regional Office Properties. As of the same date and including 15 properties owned through unconsolidated joint ventures, COPT’s core portfolio of 174 office and data center shell properties encompassed 20.2 million square feet and was 94.6% leased; the Company also owned one wholesale data center with a critical load of 19.25 megawatts that was 86.7% leased.