Sibag, Siemens' real estate division, is banking on CB Richard Ellis Inc. to come up with a sales price of at least $184 per sf ($75 million), the price Siemens paid for the asset in 1994.

But area brokers familiar with the Cumberland Mall office submarket tell GlobeSt.com on condition of anonymity Siemens will be lucky to get $170 per sf ($69 million) in a currently low appreciation phase of Downtown office assets.

Brokers base that assessment on the April sale of another Downtown icon, the three-tower, 900,000-sf Atlanta Financial Center purchased by Hines Interests Inc. of Houston and General Motors Asset Management for $154 million or $171 per sf.

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