EOP Closing on WTC East

Equity Office Properties Trust expects to close before the end of the month on its $39 million acquisition of the World Trade Center East building on downtown Seattle’s waterfront, according to recent SEC filings.

The Chicago-based real estate investment trust agreed in July 1998 to buy the building from Seattle’s Wright Runstad & Co. A relationship between the two gives Equity first dibs on projects developed by Wright Runstad, including World Trade Center East.

The 187,000-sf building has been fully leased to Visio Corp., which merged earlier this year with Microsoft Corp. Equity is the Puget Sound area’s largest landlord.