Andy Klein has made another bet on downtown office space.

Westside Investment Partners, the firm that Klein founded, this week paid $7.2 million for the 12-story office building at 1490 Curtis St., known as The Link.

The building is 225,000 square feet, so the deal works out about $32 a square foot.

It was sold at a 68% discount compared with January 2019, when California-based Steelwave and Florida-based Rialto Capital paid $22.5 million for it.

But Steelwave and Rialto also spent millions to give a major facelift to the building, which was once owned by CenturyLink, the company now known as Lumen. Over the course of 2020, the two firms tore off the building’s facade and replaced it with glass , among other improvements.

Given the pandemic, the timing obviously wasn’t great. The Link

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