Organization of the Parent Company and The Operating Partnership

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2014

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, industrial, retail and mixed-use 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 September 30, 2014, owned a 98.9% 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 September 30, 2014, the Company owned 205 properties, consisting of 169 office properties, 20 industrial facilities, five mixed-use properties, one retail property (195 core properties), five properties classified as held for sale, three development properties, one redevelopment property and one re-entitlement property (collectively, the “Properties”) containing an aggregate of approximately 25.4 million net rentable square feet. In addition, as of September 30, 2014, the Company owned economic interests in 17 unconsolidated real estate ventures that own properties containing an aggregate of approximately 6.1 million net rentable square feet (collectively, the “Real Estate Ventures”). As of September 30, 2014, the Company also owned 415 acres of undeveloped land, and held options to purchase approximately 50 additional acres of undeveloped land. As of September 30, 2014, these land parcels could support, under current zoning and entitlements, approximately 5.7 million square feet of development inclusive of options to purchase approximately 50 additional acres of undeveloped land. 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 September 30, 2014, the management company subsidiaries were managing properties containing an aggregate of approximately 33.7 million net rentable square feet, of which approximately 25.4 million net rentable square feet related to Properties owned by the Company and approximately 8.3 million net rentable square feet related to properties owned by third parties and Real Estate Ventures.

Unless otherwise indicated, all references in this Form 10-Q to square feet represent net rentable area.