Fifty South Sixth building fetches $258.5 million in sale

January 5, 2018 at 1:39AM
Fifty South Sixth building in downtown Minneapolis. (Provided photo)
Fifty South Sixth building in downtown Minneapolis. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

The Fifty South Sixth building in downtown Minneapolis has sold for $258.5 million, one of the highest prices for a Twin Cities office building in recent years.

The 29-story office skyscraper on the corner of Nicollet Mall and 6th Street has been purchased by an entity associated with Singapore-based real estate development and investment company Mapletree, according to an electronic certificate of real estate value available Thursday.

A representative from Mapletree was not available for comment.

Houston-based real estate company Hines had owned the Class A office tower since 2010 when it bought it for $180 million. Last year, the ninth floor of the building was renovated to add a lounge, conference center and a state-of-the-art fitness center.

The Class A office tower is home to law firm Dorsey & Whitney, the Deloitte accounting firm and Stinson Leonard Street, which moved into the building last fall.

Fifty South Sixth has an assessed value of about $145.5 million, according to Hennepin County property records.

The new purchase price for the building works out to about $375 per square foot.

The Colonnade office complex in Golden Valley, which is about half the size of Fifty South Sixth, sold last summer for about $100 million.

In 2016, City Center office and retail center set a state record for a Minnesota skyscraper when it was sold for $315 million to a subsidiary of Chinese conglomerate HNA Group. The Ameriprise Financial Center also sold that year for $200 million.

In 2014, the state's largest office property — the Normandale Lake Office Park in Bloomington — was sold for $369 million, a deal that amounted to $217 per square foot.

Nicole Norfleet • 612-673-4495 Twitter: @nicolenorfleet

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