Liberty Property Trust purchased 15 acres of land in order develop a 75,200-square-foot, single-story laboratory and biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility for AppTec Laboratory Services Inc., a bio-safety testing and services company based in St. Paul, MN. The land, located at the corner of League Island Boulevard and Constitution Avenue, was bought from the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corp. Liberty then entered into a long-term lease with AppTec for the proposed property.