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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001104659-12-018480
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	CORRESP
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
FILED AS OF DATE:		20120315

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			CORPORATE OFFICE PROPERTIES TRUST
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000860546
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS [6798]
		IRS NUMBER:				232947217
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			MD
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		6711 COLUMBIA GATEWAY DRIVE
		STREET 2:		SUITE 300
		CITY:			COLUMBIA
		STATE:			MD
		ZIP:			21046
		BUSINESS PHONE:		4432855400

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		6711 COLUMBIA GATEWAY DRIVE
		STREET 2:		SUITE 300
		CITY:			COLUMBIA
		STATE:			MD
		ZIP:			21046

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	CORPORATE OFFICE PROPERTIES TRUST INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19980105

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	ROYALE INVESTMENTS INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19930328

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	ROYALE REIT INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19600201
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<p align="right" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:right;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">6711 Columbia Gateway Drive, Suite&nbsp;300<br>   Columbia, Maryland 21046-2104<br>   Telephone 443-285-5400<br>   Facsimile 443-285-7650<br>   www.copt.com<br>   NYSE: OFC</font></p>    </td>   </tr>  </table>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">March&nbsp;15, 2012</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Via EDGAR</font></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Mr.&nbsp;Daniel L. Gordon</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Branch Chief</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Division of Corporation Finance</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Securities and Exchange Commission</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">450 Fifth Street, N.W.</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Washington, D.C.&#160; 20549</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Re:&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; File No.&nbsp;001-14023</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Dear Mr.&nbsp;Gordon:</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Corporate Office Properties Trust (&#147;COPT&#148; or the &#147;Company&#148;) is writing in response to the letter dated March&nbsp;7, 2012 received from the Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#147;Commission&#148;) regarding COPT&#146;s Annual Report on Form&nbsp;10-K for the year ended December&nbsp;31, 2011 (the &#147;2011 Form&nbsp;10-K&#148; or the &#147;filing&#148;).&#160; The Company&#146;s responses to comments appearing in the letter are set forth below.&#160; For reference, the Staff&#146;s comments expressed in the March&nbsp;7, 2012 letter, set forth in bold font, precede the Company&#146;s responses.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">FORM&nbsp;10-K FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2011</font></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 45.35pt;text-indent:-45.35pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Item 2.</font></b><b><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;font-weight:bold;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font></b><b><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Properties, page&nbsp;22</font></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:-.25in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">1.</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><b><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">In future filings, please break-out or otherwise identify properties in the table that are in your Strategic Disposition portfolio. In addition, please advise whether or not the Strategic Disposition portfolio is included in the average rent and average occupancy data presented in the report.</font></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><b><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;">COPT Response:</font></i></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">In future filings that include an Item 2 Properties table, we will identify properties in the table that are included in our Strategic Reallocation Plan.&#160; With respect to the table in Item 2 of our 2011 Form&nbsp;10-K, the properties included in our Strategic Reallocation Plan were included in the average rent and average occupancy data presented.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:-.25in;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">2.</font></b><b><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;font-weight:bold;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font></b><b><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">We note in footnote 2 on page&nbsp;30 that your annualized rental revenue data excludes the effect of lease incentives and that you believe the effect of this exclusion is &#147;generally not material.&#148; In future filings, please quantify the impact of lease incentives on average rental revenue per occupied square foot for your Baltimore/Washington Corridor and Northern Virginia submarkets, any significant submarkets you may have in the future, and your total portfolio.</font></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">In future filings that include an Item 2 Properties table, we will provide disclosure that quantifies the effect of lease incentives on the average rental revenue per occupied square foot of the total portfolio and of the total of each significant segment.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:-.25in;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">3.</font></b><b><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;font-weight:bold;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font></b><b><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">In future filings, to the extent you have a significant construction/redevelopment portfolio, please expand your disclosure to include information regarding anticipated completion dates, costs incurred to date and estimated costs to completion.</font></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><b><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;">COPT Response:</font></i></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">In future filings that include an Item 2 Properties table, to the extent that we have a significant amount of properties under construction or redevelopment, we will expand our disclosure to include information regarding anticipated completion dates, costs incurred to date and estimated costs to completion.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 45.35pt;text-indent:-45.35pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Lease Expirations, page&nbsp;34</font></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:-.25in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">4.</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><b><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">We note that you have a material amount of lease expirations for each of 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015. We also note your disclosure of the annualized rental revenue of expiring leases per occupied square foot. In future filings, to the extent known by management, please include disclosure that addresses the relationship between rates on leases expiring in the current year and current market rents for this space.</font></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><b><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;">COPT Response:</font></i></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">In future filings that include disclosure of annualized rental revenue of expiring leases in the current and future years, we will, for the then current year, include disclosure regarding the relationship to current market rents for the related space.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 45.0pt;text-indent:-45.0pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Item 7.</font></b><b><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;font-weight:bold;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font></b><b><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Management&#146;s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations</font></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 45.35pt;text-indent:-45.35pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Overview, page&nbsp;40</font></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:-.25in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">5.</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><b><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">We note your disclosure of Same Office Properties occupancy trends. In future filings, please accompany this disclosure with same store average rent trends, as adjusted for leasing incentives.</font></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">In future filings that include disclosure regarding Same Office Properties occupancy trends, we will also include disclosure regarding trends for Same Office Properties average rent per square foot, as adjusted for lease incentives.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 45.35pt;text-indent:-45.35pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Impairment of Long-Lived Assets, page&nbsp;44</font></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:-.25in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">6.</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><b><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">In future filings please disclose and tell us the amount of years you use for your recovery analysis when impairment indicators are present. Tell us how you determined the amount of years to use in your recovery analysis in estimating undiscounted future cash flows to be generated from operations.</font></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">We will disclose in future filings the number of years we use for our recovery analysis when impairment indicators are present.&#160; For long-lived assets to be held and used, we analyze recoverability using the cash flows expected from the operation and eventual disposition of the asset over a ten-year holding period.&#160; If management believes there is a significant possibility that we might dispose of the asset earlier, we use a probability weighted analysis of the various possible holding periods.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 45.35pt;text-indent:-45.35pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Funds from Operations, page&nbsp;61</font></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:-.25in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">7.</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><b><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">We note that you present a &#147;Diluted FFO payout ratio, as adjusted for comparability.&#148; Please advise us why you believe that this measure is more indicative of your ability to sustain your dividend than an FFO or diluted FFO payout ratio. We may have further comment.</font></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">We view diluted FFO payout ratio, as adjusted for comparability as a supplemental measure of our ability to make distributions to investors.&#160; We do not believe this measure is necessarily more indicative of our ability to make distributions to investors than payout ratios associated with FFO or diluted FFO.&#160; In future filings including disclosure of diluted FFO payout ratio, as adjusted for comparability, we will also include disclosure of FFO and diluted FFO payout ratios.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 45.35pt;text-indent:-45.35pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Liquidity and Capital Resources, page&nbsp;67</font></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:-.25in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">8.</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><b><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">In future filings, to the extent management is aware of a known liquidity trend or uncertainty, such as a trend in the company&#146;s payout ratio that indicate a reasonable likelihood of a change in the company&#146;s dividend rate, please include a discussion of such trend or uncertainty.</font></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">In future filings, we will include disclosure regarding known liquidity trends or uncertainties, including those that would indicate a reasonable likelihood of a change in the Company&#146;s dividend rate.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">In 2009 and 2010, we assessed for impairment operating properties that had projected yields of 5% or less on carrying value.&#160; We also assessed properties with chronic vacancy or other operational problems.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Beginning in 2011, we assessed each of our operating properties for impairment quarterly because we started to maintain updated ten-year cash flow projections and estimated fair values for each of our operating properties.&#160; We update the leasing and other assumptions used in these projections regularly, paying particular attention to properties that have experienced chronic vacancy or face significant market challenges.&#160; For most long-lived assets to be held and used, we analyze recoverability using the cash flows expected from the operation and eventual disposition of each asset over a ten-year holding period.&#160; We also review our plans and intentions for our development projects and land parcels quarterly.&#160; If and when our plans change, we revise our recoverability analyses to use the cash flows expected from the operations and eventual disposition of each asset using holding periods that are consistent with our revised plans.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Prior to 2011, disposition activities were not a significant part of our business. We were an active acquirer and developer of properties that we intended to hold for the long term.&#160; In fact, between 2001 and 2010, we raised only $210 million from property dispositions, averaging only $21 million per year.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">In the second quarter of 2011, after a strategic review of our portfolio, we determined that the disposition of non-strategic assets would be a part of our business strategy and, accordingly,</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">shortened the holding periods for those assets.&#160; We estimated the aggregate sales prices of these assets at approximately $260 million and expected to complete the sales over three years.&#160; The elimination of seven to nine years of operating cash flows for the impaired properties caused their basis to be not recoverable and, accordingly, required the recognition of the impairments.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">In the fourth quarter of 2011, as part of our annual strategic planning activities completed under the direction of our new CEO-elect in collaboration with our Board of Trustees, we determined that we would sell additional assets to fund development activities, reduce overall leverage, and to restore and preserve availability under our credit facility.&#160; We also determined that we would dramatically reduce our presence in Colorado Springs and that we would likely never complete the development of two master-planned office parks on land we own in that market.&#160; We estimated the aggregate sales prices of these additional assets to be in excess of $300 million, and we expect to complete the sales over three years.&#160; The elimination of seven to nine years of operating cash flows for the impaired properties caused their basis to be not recoverable and, accordingly, required the recognition of the impairments.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">In connection with the Company&#146;s response to the Staff&#146;s comments, the Company acknowledges that:</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">If you have any questions or wish to discuss any of the above matters in greater detail, please contact Gregory Thor, Senior Vice President and Controller, at (443) 285-5475 or you may reach me at (443) 285-5500.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Sincerely,</font></p>
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