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Breinigsville, Pennsylvania--June 2006--Anthem Partners LLC has commissioned MRA
Development Services, Inc., a division of MRA Group (MRA) to construct a 140,000 square foot, high-tech
office building on the TEKPARK campus in Breinigsville.
As project manager for the project, MRA is overseeing construction on what is currently a building shell, known
as "Five TEK".
In April 2006, Anthem Partners hired MRA to transform that shell into the site of Buckeye Pipe Line
Company's new corporate headquarters.
Upon completion, Buckeye will occupy approximately 70% of the building and will relocate more
than 200 employees to the site, part of their consolidation of employees from other offices throughout
Pennsylvania and other states.
In addition to housing Buckeye's administrative and engineering offices, the new building will be home
to a state-of-the-art, 24/7 command center, which will be used to monitor the company's 5,000 miles of petroleum
pipeline throughout throughout the East Coast.
This modern facility will be an ideal addition to TEKPARK, an 800,000 square foot, nine-building
campus on 137 acres in the Lehigh Valley.
Anthem Partners LLC, the developer of TEKPARK, has transformed the former home of Agere Optoelectronics
into the mid-Atlantic's premier, multi-tenant technology campus.
Highlights of the campus include a 120,000 square foot mission-critical data center with a Tier III-ready and Tier-IV
capable infrastructure, the Kutztown University Innovation Center and Small Business Development Center,
and over 400,000 square feet of office, research and development, bio-pharma, technology and production space.
For more information about the TEKPARK campus, please visit: www.tekpark.net.
About Buckeye Partners, L.P.
Buckeye Partners, L.P., through its operating subsidiaries, owns and operates one of the largest
independent refined petroleum products pipeline systems in the United States, in terms of volumes delivered,
with approximately 5,350 miles of pipeline. The Partnership also owns and operates 45 refined
petroleum products terminals with an aggregate storage capacity of approximately 17.6 million barrels
in Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania, and operates
and maintains approximately 2,100 miles of pipeline under agreements with major oil and chemical companies.
For additional information about Buckeye Partners, L.P, please visit the Partnership's website at www.buckeye.com.
About Anthem Partners, LLC
Anthem Partners LLC is a real estate investment company that specializes
in creating real estate value for institutional and technology-based entities. Anthem
is an affiliate of MRA Group (MRA), a multi-disciplined firm that specializes in providing
premier real estate services to a diverse client base.
About MRA Group
Headquartered in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania and founded in 1992 by President
and CEO Lawrence J. Stuardi, MRA continues to maintain the high level of quality, integrity
and excellence that has allowed it to be recognized and respected as one of the largest and
fastest growing developers and managers of healthcare, technological, and education-related real
estate in the mid-Atlantic region.
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