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Blackstone paying $7.6 billion for PS Business Parks
PS Business Parks Inc. shares jumped 11% in premarket trades on Monday after it agreed to be acquired by Blackstone Inc.’s real estate unit in a deal valued at $7.6 billion. Blackstone will pay $187.50 a share, a premium of 15% over the PB Business Parks volume weighted average share price over the last 60 days. Blackstone is buying PSB’s 27 million square foot portfolio of industrial, business park, traditional office, and multifamily properties mostly in California, Miami, Texas and Virginia.
