Engineering a Lease at MCI Tower

With a little creative negotiating by its brokers, the nationwide engineering and consulting firm Carter & Burgess, Inc., secured four full floors at 707 17th St. in Denver for a total occupancy of 98,830 square feet. The contiguous block of space spans the 22nd through the 25th floors of the 42-story downtown office tower. The top two floors had been offered as a sublease from building tenant Harding Lawson Associates through September of 2005. The other two floors were available direct from the landlord. Carter & Burgess' brokers, Sam DePizzol and Brian Wells of Staubach, first negotiated a lease termination for Harding Lawson with building owner Crescent Real Estate Equities, which paved the way for the engineering firm to lease all four floors directly for an 11-year term.