The El Jebel Shrine building in Uptown is going to auction.

Last week, Denver District Court Judge A. Bruce Jones approved a receiver’s plan to auction the building at 1770 Sherman St. and its adjacent parking lot through the Crexi website.

The five-story, 46,000-square-foot Shrine building was built in 1906 by the Shriners, a fraternal organization that used it as a meeting hall. It is a Denver city landmark and Historic Denver, a local nonprofit, has a conservation easement for both the exterior and interior of the building.

Since 2016, the building has been owned by LLCs managed by attorney Robert Lubin, who lives in California. They paid $12.4 million that year.

Lubin previously told BusinessDen that the acquisition was funded by EB-5 investors — foreigners who can get green cards

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