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Tysons’ Boro Tower lands another law firm tenant

By Jeff Clabaugh

WASHINGTON — A second law firm will join a major accounting company and a big media company as tenants at the 20-story Boro Tower.

The building is part of developers The Meridian Group and Rockefeller Group’s The Boro development, a multiphase project adjacent to the Greensboro Metro stop.

Womble Bond Dickenson has signed a 24,000-square-foot lease for the building’s entire 15th floor and will relocate from its current Leesburg Pike location about a mile away in mid-2019. About 40 of the firm’s attorneys and staff will make the move, with room for the firm to expand.

With the Womble Bond Dickenson lease, Boro Tower is now 68 percent preleased.

The 437,00-square foot tower includes a rooftop terrace, fitness center, locker rooms and bike storage and 10,000 square feet of ground level retail.

Last month, tax and audit advisory firm KPMG LLP signed a lease to relocate its Tysons Corner headquarters to The Boro by fall of 2019, taking up to seven floors. Under a $1 million Virginia grant, KPMG will also create 500 new jobs over the course of three years.

KPMG has almost 1,900 employees at its current Tysons headquarters.

Other big tenants will be law firm Hogan Lovells, leasing the building’s 16th and 17th floors, and Tegna, the broadcasting company created when Gannet split in two three years ago, will take two floors.

The entire 15-acre The Boro development will also include residential units, a total of 350,000 square feet of retail, a hotel, a Whole Foods Market and a 14-screen ShowPlace ICON theater.

The developers also recently announced a list of first restaurants to sign leases for space at The Boro.

Massachusetts court hears arguments in lawsuit alleging Meta designed apps to be addictive to kids

By The Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts' highest court heard oral arguments Friday in the state's lawsuit arguing that Meta designed features on Facebook and Instagram to make them addictive to young users. The lawsuit, filed in 2023 by Attorney General Andrea Campbell, alleges that Meta did this to make a profit and that its actions affected hundreds of thousands of teenagers in Massachusetts who use the social media platforms. “We are making claims based only on the tools that Meta has developed because its own research shows they encourage addiction to the platform in a variety of ways,” said State Solicitor David Kravitz, adding that the state's claim has nothing to do the company's algorithms or failure to moderate content. Meta said Friday that it strongly disagrees with the allegations and is “confident the evidence will show our longstanding commitment to supporting young people.” Its attorney, Mark Mosier, argued in court that the lawsuit “would impose liabilities for performing traditional publishing functions” and that its actions are protected by the First Amendment.
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