12.21.2009 Mesirow Financial and the National Electrical Benefit Fund (NEBF) complete the lease for almost 200,000 SF of Class A office space in downtown Phoenix. Freeport-McMoRan will occupy the upper elevator bank when it relocates in April of 2010 from its current downtown headquarters. Tenant improvements are already underway. The new office tower has been renamed Freeport-McMoRan Center.  Plans for the lower elevator bank have also recently been announced to include a new 275-room Westin Hotel pending final city approvals.