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Chad Thomas
Bloomberg
OAO Gazprom, the world's largest gas producer, wants to rent the Berlin tower which currently houses the German national railway's headquarters, Die Welt reported, citing unidentified industry sources.
Gazprom has contacted Morgan Stanley, which owns the tower, about leasing the building for its European offices when Deutsche Bahn AG's contract expires next year, the German newspaper reported on its Web site today. Deutsche Bahn wants to move its offices to Berlin's new central railway station, which opened two years ago, Die Welt said.
A Morgan Stanley real estate fund, along with two other investors, took over the complex on Berlin's Potsdamer Platz on March 31. Sony Corp., the world's second-largest maker of consumer electronics, previously owned the buildings, which is known as the Sony Center.
Daimler AG in February also sold its share of Potsdamer Platz, Berlin's biggest development since the city was reunited in 1990, for about 1.4 billion euros ($2.2 billion).
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