Columbia’s Continued Focus on High-Barrier, CBD Markets Leads to Exit of
Denver Market
ATLANTA & DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Columbia
Property Trust, Inc. (NYSE: CXP) today announced that it has exited
the Denver market with the sale of a vacant suburban office building
located at 9127 South Jamaica Street in Englewood, Colorado, to
Toastmasters International for $19.5 million in gross proceeds.
Toastmasters, a world leader in communication and leadership
development, intends to relocate its world headquarters to the
106,575-square-foot building. Last month, Columbia also sold three
adjacent buildings at the suburban campus that are fully leased to
global engineering and construction firm CH2M to a separate buyer.
This sale is in line with Columbia’s previously announced plan to
dispose of roughly $700 million to $1 billion of non-core assets in 2016.
About Columbia Property Trust
Columbia Property Trust (NYSE: CXP) owns and operates Class-A office
buildings in competitive, primarily CBD locations, and over half our
investments are in high-barrier-to-entry, primary markets. Our $5
billion portfolio includes 23 office properties containing 11.2 million
square feet and one hotel, concentrated in San Francisco, New York, and
Washington, D.C. For more information about Columbia, which carries an
investment-grade rating from both Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s, please
visit columbia.reit.
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future economic, competitive, and market conditions, all of which are
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assumptions differ from actual conditions, our ability to accurately
anticipate results expressed in such forward-looking statements,
including our ability to generate positive cash flow from operations,
make distributions to stockholders, and maintain the value of our real
estate properties, may be significantly hindered. See Item 1A in the
Company's most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year
ended December 31, 2015, for a discussion of some of the risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from
those presented in our forward-looking statements. The risk factors
described in our Annual Report are not the only ones we face, but do
represent those risks and uncertainties that we believe are material to
us. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to us or that
we currently deem immaterial may also harm our business.
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Perrone, 212-843-8068
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or
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Relations:
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Source: Columbia Property Trust