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UPDATE: Trump Hopes To Change Skyline

DENVER-Donald Trump's team is focusing on a site next to the historic El Jebel building to develop a luxury hotel-condo tower. Three years ago the city council approved view plane alteration for the site, allowing the land to house a 715-foot building.

By John Rebchook | Updated on February 27, 2006

DENVER-New York City-based Donald Trump is targeting the El Jebel site for his first Denver project. The building would be built on a parking lot next to the El Jebel building that was constructed in 1906 at Sherman and Grant streets. The city council three years ago approved a development for the site that changed the view plane, allowing a 650-foot building with a 65-foot spire to make it a total of 715 feet. That would top Denver’s current tallest building, the nearby 56-story Republic Plaza, which stands at 714 feet.

Trump’s team, which includes the local Barry Group and the New York City-based Bayrock Group LLC, is going for the maximum height. Trump earlier this month announced he was continuing to pursue a building in Denver, after his bid for the $1 billion redevelopment of the Denver Union Station site was rejected. Trump’s team made a last-minute decision to enter the bidding for Union Station and about 20 acres around it, and only submitted six paragraphs to a request for qualifications. The oversight committee on the station deemed the proposal inadequate.

But Trump’s team didn’t give up on Denver. “We think Denver is a fantastic and beautiful city, with very significant growth ahead of it,” Felix Satter of Bayrock tells GlobeSt.com in an e-mail sent from Moscow. “We chose the El Jebel site because of its fantastic location.”

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