Organization of the Parent Company and The Operating Partnership

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2013

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

ORGANIZATION OF THE PARENT COMPANY AND THE OPERATING PARTNERSHIP [Text Block]

ORGANIZATION OF THE PARENT COMPANY AND THE OPERATING PARTNERSHIP

The Parent Company is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (“REIT”) that provides leasing, property management, development, redevelopment, acquisition and other tenant-related services for a portfolio of office and industrial properties. The Parent Company owns its assets and conducts its operations through the Operating Partnership and subsidiaries of the Operating Partnership. The Parent Company is the sole general partner of the Operating Partnership and, as of June 30, 2013, owned a 98.8% interest in the Operating Partnership. The Parent Company’s common shares of beneficial interest are publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “BDN”.

As of June 30, 2013, the Company owned 210 properties, consisting of 182 office properties, 19 industrial facilities, five mixed-use properties, one development property, two redevelopment properties and one re-entitlement property (collectively, the “Properties”) containing an aggregate of approximately 24.2 million net rentable square feet. In addition, as of June 30, 2013, the Company owned economic interests in 17 unconsolidated real estate ventures that contain approximately 6.2 million net rentable square feet (collectively, the “Real Estate Ventures”). As of June 30, 2013, the Company also owned 435 acres of undeveloped land, and held options to purchase approximately 51 additional acres of undeveloped land. As of June 30, 2013, the total potential development that these land parcels could support, under current zoning, entitlements or combination thereof, amounted to 6.2 million square feet. The Properties and the properties owned by the Real Estate Ventures are located in or near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Metropolitan Washington, D.C.; Southern New Jersey; Richmond, Virginia; Wilmington, Delaware; Austin, Texas and Oakland, Concord, and Carlsbad, California.

The Company conducts its third-party real estate management services business primarily through wholly-owned management company subsidiaries. As of June 30, 2013, the management company subsidiaries were managing properties containing an aggregate of approximately 30.8 million net rentable square feet, of which approximately 24.2 million net rentable square feet related to Properties owned by the Company and approximately 6.6 million net rentable square feet related to properties owned by third parties and Real Estate Ventures.