Does Hillary Clinton Hint at a 2016 Run?
During an event in Brooklyn, the former Secretary of State subtly acknowledged her likely presidential campaign could be headquartered in the New York City borough.
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The chaotic weeks of working out of Starbucks, friends Manhattan pads, and a tiny office space will soon come to an end for Hillary Clintons early staffers theyre officially setting up shop at 1 Pierrepont Plaza in Brooklyn Heights.
A lease has been signed at that location for Clintons campaign headquarters, according to a source familiar with the deal. The operation will occupy two full floors of the building, which is close to 12 subway lines and a dozen bus lines. The Clinton team will be taking the space as is with no buildout.
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Having the ink dry on the lease indicates that Clintons official announcement will be coming very soon. Federal Election Commission rules state that a candidate has only 15 days between conducting campaign activities and filing the official 2016 paperwork, and the lease signing could start the clock on an official launch.
A Clinton campaign spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.
On its website, the building at 1 Pierrepont Plaza markets it as Modern Offices. Brooklyn Cool.
Clintons chief of staff, Huma Abedin, checked out the building weeks ago and took a walking tour of the neighborhood. The Clinton team will be sharing part of the building with a branch of the brokerage Morgan Stanley, while across the street is the office of the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
The new digs, however, couldnt come soon enough for the roughly 35 staff members who have been based in New York most of them volunteers with vagabond lifestyles.
During the day, theyve clamored for whatever work space is available, especially because Clintons small personal office in Midtown Manhattan isnt big enough for more than 20 people.
At night, most of the younger staff members are transients in the big city, staying on the couches of relatives, buddies and exes in Brooklyn and Manhattan, while preparations are being made for salaries, campaign-issued cellphones and apartments for the next 18 months.
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TIME Politics Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton Leases Office Space in Brooklyn Andrew BurtonGetty Images Hillary Clinton on April 1, 2015 in New York City. The countdown for Clinton to announce her candidacy has begun
Hillary Clintons team has signed a lease for a campaign headquarters in downtown Brooklyn, TIME has learned, moving the former Secretary of State closer to her all-but-inevitable announcement this month: she is running for president.
The lease was signed in the last two days, giving Clinton until around April 15 to officially announce her candidacy for president before she runs afoul of campaign finance laws.
Clintons offices will be located at 1 Pierrepont Plaza in Brooklyn Heights, an office building with views of New York Harbor and southern Manhattan.
The team will work from the 10th and 11th floors of the 19-story building, taking up more than 80,000 square feet of space. One Pierrepont Plaza was constructed in the 1980s, and the Clinton campaign will share the tower with the office of the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York and Morgan Stanley.
Clintons operation would occupy even more space than President Obama did during his reelection campaign in 2011 and 2012, when he leased 50,000 square feet of space in the Prudential Building in Chicago.
In promotional material, the building bills itself as Modern Offices. Brooklyn Cool. The tower is in the genteel and upper-middle-class Brooklyn Heights neighborhood, close to nearly a dozen subway lines and just a few stops from Downtown Manhattan.
The building is owned by Forest City Ratner, whose chairman Bruce Ratner is a Democrat and an ally of New York City mayor Bill de Blasio. De Blasio served on Clintons 1999 campaign for Senator in New York.
The Clinton team worked with two brokers from the international real estate firm CBRE, Roshan Shah and Keith Caggiano, who have advised the Clintons for several years. As TIME previously reported, CBRE has been advising Clinton on her Brooklyn office space for months, and assisted the Clintons office move from Harlem to Midtown Manhattan in 2011.
Politico first reported Clintons team had signed the lease.
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Hillary Clinton Leases Office Space in Brooklyn
April 3, 2015 9:07 PM
Hillary Clinton has signed up for office space in this building at One Pierrepont Plaza in Brooklyn Heights. (Credit: CBS2)
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) In another sign that Hillary Rodham Clinton could be running for president, the former First Lady, U.S. senator and Secretary of State has signed a lease for office space in a Brooklyn Heights building.
There was no official word on what the offices in the One Pierrepont Plaza building will be used for, but some speculated that it could house her presidential campaign headquarters.
Brooklyn could not be more prepared and excited to host Hillary Clinton as she begins her journey as the consensus front-runner for the Democratic nomination for President, Carlo A. Scissura, president and chief executive officer of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce said in a news release. As one of the most diverse and tolerant places on the planet and with cool points no other city can match the road to the White House is clearly paved through our borough. Brooklyn is the capital of tomorrow, and theres no better place for tomorrows aspiring President to run a campaign.
After engaging in campaign activities like signing a lease, presidential candidates must make their intentions known within 15 days.
Late last month, a poll indicated that Clinton still holds a commanding lead over the potential Democratic field in the 2016 presidential race.
A whopping 81 percent of Democrats said they would consider voting for Clinton for the partys nomination.
Vice President Joe Biden ranked second with 48 percent, while Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren was in third place with 31 percent.
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