Equity Office Properties is on the list of potential buyers vying for some of downtown Denver’s highest-profile properties.
Bids are due next week for the 56-story Republic Plaza – Denver’s tallest high-rise – and the two World Trade Center buildings, said Diane Reed, a spokeswoman for Los Angeles-based Secured Capital, which is marketing the portfolio.
“We’re very interested in it,” said Kim Koehn, Equity Office’s senior vice president for the Denver region. “We think they’re great assets and a perfect complement for the portfolio we already have here.”
Real-estate experts say the 1.2 million-square-foot Republic Plaza building could sell for close to $300 a square foot.
Equity Office, the nation’s largest owner of office properties, owns six buildings downtown and nine in the Denver Tech Center for a total of 5 million square feet.
The downtown properties Equity Office owns are Tabor Center I, U.S. Bank Tower, Dominion Plaza, Trinity Place, 410 17th St. and the Denver Post Tower.
Steve Silk and Jay Borzi of Los Angeles-based Secured Capital are working with Tim Richey and Mike Winn of the Denver office of Cushman & Wakefield to market the portfolio, owned by Toronto-based Brookfield Properties.
Other potential buyers include HRPT Properties Trust, JPMorgan and TIAA-CREF.
Staff writer Margaret Jackson can be reached at 303-820-1473 or mjackson@denverpost.com.
