Uber announced in August that it was putting Uptown Station—the new mixed-use development right downtown in the onetime Sears building on Broadway that only recently shed the white plastic cocoon that enshrouded it during rehab—up for sale without ever moving a single employee into its planned headquarters.
But it didn’t take long for an interested buyer to start making eyes at the circa 1929 Beaux-Arts building.
Back in October, the San Francisco Business Times reported that the Oakland-base investment firm CIM Group planned to buy the whole 356,000-square-foot building for $175 million.
As Tuesday morning, CIM announced the sale via press release. The announcement doesn’t include the sale price, and spokesperson Karen Diehl tells Curbed SF “CIM never discusses financial arrangements.”
Uber previous paid $123.5 million for the place, putting millions more into the rehab.
