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Hillary Clinton Leases Office Space in Brooklyn

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on April 1, 2015 in New York City.
Hillary Clinton on April 1, 2015 in New York City.Andrew Burton—Getty Images
By Sam Frizell

Hillary Clinton’s team has signed a lease for a campaign headquarters in downtown Brooklyn, TIME has learned, moving the former Secretary of State closer to her all-but-inevitable announcement this month: she is running for president.

The lease was signed in the last two days, giving Clinton until around April 15 to officially announce her candidacy for president before she runs afoul of campaign finance laws.

Clinton’s offices will be located at 1 Pierrepont Plaza in Brooklyn Heights, an office building with views of New York Harbor and southern Manhattan.

The team will work from the 10th and 11th floors of the 19-story building, taking up more than 80,000 square feet of space. One Pierrepont Plaza was constructed in the 1980s, and the Clinton campaign will share the tower with the office of the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York and Morgan Stanley.

Clinton’s operation would occupy even more space than President Obama did during his reelection campaign in 2011 and 2012, when he leased 50,000 square feet of space in the Prudential Building in Chicago.

In promotional material, the building bills itself as “Modern Offices. Brooklyn Cool.” The tower is in the genteel and upper-middle-class Brooklyn Heights neighborhood, close to nearly a dozen subway lines and just a few stops from Downtown Manhattan.

The building is owned by Forest City Ratner, whose chairman Bruce Ratner is a Democrat and an ally of New York City mayor Bill de Blasio. De Blasio served on Clinton’s 1999 campaign for Senator in New York.

The Clinton team worked with two brokers from the international real estate firm CBRE, Roshan Shah and Keith Caggiano, who have advised the Clintons for several years. As TIME previously reported, CBRE has been advising Clinton on her Brooklyn office space for months, and assisted the Clintons’ office move from Harlem to Midtown Manhattan in 2011.

Politico first reported Clinton’s team had signed the lease.

See Hillary Clinton's Evolution in 20 Photos

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Teenager: Hillary Rodham poses in her 1965 senior class portrait from Park Ridge East High School in Illinois. AP
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Law School Student: Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham pose for a snapshot at Yale Law School in 1972. They married in 1975.Clinton Presidential Library
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Mother: Clinton poses with her husband, Bill, then in his first term as governor, with their week-old daughter, Chelsea, on March 5, 1980.Donald R. Broyles—AP
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Campaign Companion: Clinton celebrates her husband's victory in a Democratic runoff in Little Rock, Ark. on June 8, 1982.AP
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Arkansas First Lady: Clinton is seen in her inaugural ball gown in 1985. A. Lynn—AP
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Political Wife: Clinton celebrates her husband's inauguration in Little Rock on Sept. 20, 1991.Danny Johnston—AP
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Dignitary: Clinton receives an honorary law degree from Hendrix College in Conway, Ark., on May 30, 1992.Chris Ocken—AP
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Campaigner: Clinton speaks at a meeting during the presidential campaign for her husband in Buffalo, N.Y., on April 4, 1992.Bill Sikes—AP
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First Lady: Clinton appears at the MTV Inauguration Ball at the Washington Convention Center on Jan. 20, 1993. Shayna Brennan—AP
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Second-Term First Lady: Clinton attends the Inaugural Ball after her husband was sworn in to a second term on Jan. 20, 1997. Brooks Kraft—Corbis
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New York Senator: Clinton speaks at a press conference with female Democratic senators in Washington on June 21, 2006. Brooks Kraft—Corbis
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Committee Member: Clinton listens to the testimony of Lt. General David Petraeus to the Senate Armed Forces Committee at a hearing on Capital Hill in Washington on Jan. 23, 2007. Brooks Kraft—Corbis
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Candidate: Clinton holds a a campaign event in Portsmouth, N.H., while running for the Democratic presidential nomination on Sept. 2, 2007. Brooks Kraft—Corbis
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Campaigner: Clinton speaks at a campaign stop in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Jan. 2, 2008. Brooks Kraft—Corbis
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Secretary of State: Clinton kisses President Obama at a joint session of Congress in Washington on Feb. 24, 2009. Brooks Kraft—Corbis
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Witness: Clinton joins Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Dec. 3, 2009. Brooks Kraft—Corbis
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Witness: Clinton testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on Jan. 23, 2013.J. Scott Applewhite—AP
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Author: Clinton attends a signing memoir, "Hard Choices," at a Costco in Arlington, Va., on June 14, 2014. Brooks Kraft—Corbis
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Grandmother: Clinton holds her granddaughter Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City on Sept. 27, 2014.Office of President Clinton/AP
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Once and Future Candidate: Clinton speaks at Iowa Senator Tom Harkin's annual Steak Fry in Indianola, Iowa, on Sept. 14, 2014. Brooks Kraft—Corbis

 

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