Health care REIT could establish corporate HQ in region

DENVER — A California-based health care-focused real estate investment trust could open a new corporate headquarters in the Denver metro area and bring with it 166 extremely high paying jobs.

An unnamed REIT was approved Thursday by the Colorado Economic Development Commission for a nearly $5.3-million tax incentive package in hopes of luring the firm to the Centennial State.

It is the commission’s practice not to identify companies that the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade is recruiting until incentives are accepted. That acceptance process often takes six month to a year.

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