While everyone continues to nervously eye the commercial real market, Opus East has continued to sign tenants at
100 M Street. In addition to
Parsons (who signed for 30 percent of the building's space early on), deals have now been completed with
Battelle's transportation group (about 6,000 sq ft) and NAVSEA contractors
CDI Marine (6,000 sq ft) and
Orbis (7,400 sq ft). This brings the building to about 43 percent leased, according to Opus, with contracts closed to be completed for another 8,000 sq ft.
As for retail, SunTrust is still planning to open a branch there (perhaps as early as this spring, but nothing's confirmed), and Opus continues to look for a restaurant (or restaurants) to fill the remaining 8,500-sq-ft of ground-floor retail space.