Hillary Clinton has signed a lease for a 2016 campaign headquarters in Brooklyn.
Clinton will lease space on two floors of 1 Pierremont Plaza in Brooklyn Heights — a building that once held the offices of Loretta Lynch, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York nominated to be attorney general, a source told Politico.
The move signals an official announcement on her run for the 2016 Democratic presidential ticket is imminent. Federal Election Commission rules mandate that a candidate has only 15 days between conducting campaign activities and filing campaign paperwork.
A Clinton spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Clinton, the former secretary of state and heavily favored Democratic presidential nominee, leads a RealClearPolitics average of polls by nearly 50 percentage points. Clinton has roughly 60 percent of the likely Democratic vote. Her next closest competitor is Vice President Joe Biden with 13 points.
