The Denver Post will soon lose some visibility downtown.

The City and County of Denver announced on Tuesday that it had reached an agreement with DP Media Network LLC  — the legal name of the Denver Post — in a dispute over the lease of the Post’s former building at 101 W. Colfax Ave.

Under the agreement, the “Denver Post” signage atop the building will be removed and the parking area and several floors of the building will become the City of Denver’s to be leased out. The owners of the Post will also have to pay $13.5 million to the city to repay missed rent payments that began in August 2025.

While it still carries its name, The Denver Post has not operated out of the downtown building for years and has been operating out of the North Washington neighborhood, 5990 Washington St., since leaving downtown.

Denver purchased the building, situated right across from Civic Center Park in the middle of downtown Denver, for $88.5 million in 2024. The city has been pursuing missed rent payments, as well as late fees, since the Post defaulted on its lease last year.

The Post’s monthly rent payments topped out at nearly $650,000, with late fees of $32,000 accruing since August.

In an article last year, the Denver Post said DP Media Network LLC offered to buy out its lease with Denver and that the company had hoped to reach a mutually beneficial arrangement.

“We stopped occupying this space while the building was under private ownership long before the city purchased it, so there was never any impression we would be using the space when the city made the decision to purchase the building,” the Denver Post quoted Marshall Anstandig, the general counsel for The Post’s parent company MediaNews Group.

Alden Global Capital owns MediaNews Group.

DP Media Network’s lease to the building will terminate entirely on June 30.   

“When we said we would recover every cent owed we meant it,” said Mayor Mike Johnston in a news release. “This agreement is a great deal for Denver, and we look forward to forging a new future for the property that serves the city and preserves this building’s iconic place downtown.”