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U.S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles Put Up for Sale by OUE

Singapore's OUE to Sell U.S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles

(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Bank Tower in downtown Los Angeles, known for its cameos in Hollywood movies and a sky-high outdoor glass slide, has been put up for sale.

Singapore property developer OUE Ltd., backed by the Riady family, has started marketing the building after enhancement work, the company said in a statement on Friday. The prominent Indonesian family bought the iconic building for $367.5 million through an OUE unit in 2013, when the tower was at the time the tallest west of the Mississippi.

U.S. Bank Tower could draw more than $700 million, based on recent downtown transactions, the Los Angeles Times reported. OUE didn’t state how much it was looking for the building.

In November, an investigation into troubled Indonesian property developer PT Lippo Karawaci, also controlled by the Riadys, reverberated in the Singapore bond market. Singapore dollar-denominated notes issued by OUE and others linked to the family dropped as a liquidity crunch prompted concern the group is using other entities to help shore up finances.

The stock has fallen 9.8 percent in the past six months, compared with a 3.7 percent decline in the Singapore benchmark Straits Times Index.

Work done by OUE at the U.S. Bank Tower include an open-air observation deck with a 360-degree view from Hollywood Hills to the Pacific Ocean and an outdoor glass slide 1,000 feet above ground, according to the company. The building was blown up in the 1996 movie “Independence Day” and has been seen in numerous films.

To contact the reporter on this story: Lilian Karunungan in Singapore at lkarunungan@bloomberg.net

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Shamim Adam at sadam2@bloomberg.net, Linus Chua, Cormac Mullen

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