SAN FRANCISCO — Paramount Group Inc. (NYSE: PGRE) has agreed to acquire 111 Sutter Street, a 293,000-square-foot office tower in San Francisco’s North Financial District, for $227 million.
The transaction, expected to close in the first quarter of 2019, equates to $775 per square foot. Paramount is considering bringing in a joint venture partner at the property. The seller was not disclosed.
The building is currently 79.6 percent leased to technology, media, business services and nonprofit tenants. JLL serves as the property’s leasing agent.
The 22-story building originally opened in 1927 and was known as the Hunter-Dulin Building. Electrical and plumbing upgrades as well as new elevator systems were added in 2001. The property, which served as NBC’s West Coast headquarters from 1927 to 1942, is on the National Register of Historic Places.
The LEED Silver-certified property includes a 24-hour fitness center on the ground floor.
New York City-based Paramount is a real estate investment trust that owns and operates Class A office properties in select central business district submarkets of New York City, Washington, D.C. and San Francisco. PGRE’s stock price closed at $12.79 per share on Thursday, Dec. 20, down from $15.58 per share one year ago.
— Kristin Hiller