America Online Leases Beverly Hills Building

America Online has signed a $40-million lease for a Beverly Hills office building that will house studios and offices for its program to develop original content for subscribers to its online services.

Dulles, Va.-based AOL will occupy all 82,576 square feet at 331 N. Maple Drive for 10 years under the agreement, said real estate broker Christopher Bonbright of Ramsey-Shilling, who represented landlord Bendheim Enterprises Holdings.

The building was built in 2000 for the David Geffen Foundation and was briefly the home of DreamWorks Records.

Roger Vincent