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OAKLAND, CALIF.--The Port of Oakland and SCORE! Learning, Inc. recently signed a ten-year lease agreement for approximately 31,500 square feet of office space at 66 Jack London Square. SCORE!'s new office, which will be used for administrative purposes, will house approximately 150 employees. BT Commercial was the broker responsible for executing the lease.

"We're thrilled that SCORE! has chosen to move its offices here," remarked Omar Benjamin, director, Commercial Real Estate, Port of Oakland. "The allure of being close to the water, the vibrancy of Jack London Square and the fundamental value of Oakland I'm sure played a part in the decision. And we're excited that SCORE! is now a Port tenant."

"Jack London Square is a thriving business district offering the space necessary to accommodate our rapid growth and a central location convenient to the talent that we are attracting from across the Bay Area," said SCORE! CEO Robert Waldron. "We are pleased to make Jack London Square our new base of operations."

SCORE! Learning, Inc., a subsidiary of education and career services company Kaplan, Inc., is a leading national provider of learning programs for children, as well as child development and educational resources for parents. SCORE!'s three units include:

SCORE! Educational Centers, after school learning centers nationwide, help students in grades K-10 develop critical academic skills, goal-setting abilities, self-confidence and a love of learning. With more than 100 locations nationwide including one in Oakland, SCORE! is opening a new center every ten days throughout 2000.

eSCORE.com, the first educational services Web site designed to help parents determine what's best for their child's education and development, offers customized learning resources for parents and their children from newborn to age 18. eSCORE.com is creating a new e-education category--one that blends the best of the Internet with highly interactive person-to-person services. Parents have direct access to child development and education specialists, and starting later this year, kids can sign up for online tutoring in which they work synchronously with a live, online academic coach. SCORE! Prep is the fastest growing tutoring company in the country serving middle and high school students with highly personalized one-on-one tutoring in the home for academic subjects and standardized tests.

The Port of Oakland recently announced that LCOR/WDGV has been named as master developer for the next phases of development in Jack London Square that includes seven parcels stretching from the foot of Clay Street to the Amtrak station at the foot of Alice Street. The project is estimated to be $200 million and is targeted to be completed in 2003. The Port of Oakland, established in 1927, is an independent department of the City of Oakland employing some 560 people. The Port extends approximately 19 miles along the east side of the Oakland Estuary from the border of the city of Emeryville immediately north of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, to the south to the border of the city of San Leandro. Port facilities include four major marine terminal areas covering almost 1,000 acres; Oakland International Airport which covers an area of over 2,500 acres; 1,100 acres of commercial, industrial, recreational and other land; 950 acres of underdeveloped land; and about 9,800 surface acres of water area.


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