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BOSTON PROPERTIES INC. IS aggressively courting law firms in its hunt for an anchor tenant for Times Square Tower, its second development project in the newly revived theater and office district.
The site is bordered by Seventh Avenue, Broadway, West 41st and West 42nd streets, and is just across from the headquarters the Bostonbased real estate investment trust is building for Ernst &Young.
One firm the developer has set its sights on is Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells, which just became the world's largest law firm through the three-way combination of Manhattan's Rogers & Wells, London's Clifford Chance and Frankfurt's Punder Volhard Weber & Axster. The merger took effect on Jan. 1.
Boston Properties sent a lease proposal to the newly minted megafirm, hoping it would want to consolidate three Manhattan locations into one and have room to expand beyond the combined 400,000 square feet it currently occupies. But the attorneys spurned the idea.
"It was an unsolicited proposalit was not consistent with our plans or our strategy," says a spokeswoman for Clifford Chance, which now has 400 attorneys in Manhattan.
"We have no intention of...