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Unico Properties sells Writer Square for $525.13 per square foot

Writer Square
Writer Square (CBRE)

Writer Square has changed hands for $95.28 million, becoming one of a handful of downtown Denver assets to trade for more than $500 per square foot.

Unico Properties sold the office/retail property, located at Larimer Street and the Sixteenth Street mall, to GKT Writer Square LLC, a Kroenke Group affiliate. Unico and LaSalle Investment Management bought the 181,431-square-foot property in fall 2013 for $68.25 million, or $380.71 per sf.

Writer Square consists of a 123,285-sf office tower and 58,146 sf of retail space, along with 435 parking spaces.

The property was listed by Geoff Baukol, Mike Winn and Tim Richey, who declined to comment on the transaction.

Read more in CREJ’s Jan. 4, 2017, issue.

Kris Oppermann Stern is publisher and editor of Building Dialogue, a Colorado Real Estate Journal publication, and editor of CREJ's construction, design, and engineering section, including news and bylined articles. Building Dialogue is a quarterly, four-color magazine that caters specifically to the AEC industry, including features on projects and people, as well as covering trends…