The financing replaces construction loans put together by a consortium of banks headed by Bank of America, says Jim Cobb, director of the Denver office of L.J. Melody & Co., who put together the CIGNA deal with Doug Mueller of the Phoenix office L.J. Melody. Westcor is the Phoenix developer of FlatIron.

''I can't think of anything of this magnitude for a single asset,'' Cobb tells GlobeSt.com. ''The Park Meadows Mall was financed around four years ago for around $100 million.''

About two years ago, L.J. Melody financed the Wells Fargo Center in Downtown Denver, the biggest single deal in recent history in the market.

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