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Summit Materials selects LoDo building for headquarters

13 May 2013 | Posted in Office, Denver Market, Economic Development
Summit Materials is moving its Washington, D.C., headquarters to Mercantile Square in Lower Downtown Denver. The company signed a seven-year lease for 16,653 square feet of third-floor space that spans 1550 Wynkoop St. and 1628 16th St. The Colorado Economic Development Corp. recently approved $1.3 million in incentives for the corporate relocation, which will bring 79 jobs to the state. “We’re thrilled,” said Mike Coughlin of Coughlin & Co., which owns the…

Medtronic leases 40,657 sf in Colorado Tech Center building

13 May 2013 | Posted in Industrial, Boulder County & U.S. 36 Corridor
Medtronic Navigation Inc. signed a lease for 40,657 square feet of office/flex space in the Colorado Technology Center in Louisville, boosting its presence on the U.S. Highway 36 corridor. The global medical technology company will occupy a portion of the 92,576-sf building at 1480 Arthur Ave. in July. Etkin Johnson Group owns the property. Ryan Good, Etkin Johnson vice president of leasing and sales, negotiated the transaction with Todd Wheeler of Cushman & Wakefield o…

Longtime owner sells Armory Building in $6.31 million deal

13 May 2013 | Posted in Office, Boulder County & U.S. 36 Corridor
A historic Pearl Street building leased to a hip national retailer sold for $6.31 million. R&L Properties, through a pair of limited liability companies, bought the Armory Building at 934 Pearl St. from Armory Building LLC. Urban Outfitters occupies the 12,298-square-foot structure, which was built in 1898 for Company H of the Colorado First Infantry. “We were seeking out to try to find the best building in Boulder, and we think we did. It’s a great building, a h…

Developer comes forward for Gaylord hotel

9 May 2013 | Posted in Denver Market, Hospitality, Economic Development
Houston-based Rida Development Corp. is picking up where Gaylord Entertainment left off to build a 1,500-room Gaylord convention center hotel in Aurora. Rida and AREA Property Partners are working with Marriott and the city of Aurora to build the $800 million project, which would include 400,000 square feet of exhibition and meeting space. Financing is not yet in place, but, “With Rida and AREA and Marriott, we now have the right team in place to make it happen,” said …

University of Colorado wins real estate challenge

2 May 2013 | Posted in Denver Market, Boulder County & U.S. 36 Corridor
A team from the University of Colorado won the Rocky Mountain Real Estate Challenge with its development scenario for a block within Boulder’s Civic Area. The student competition is put on by NAIOP Colorado with sponsorship by Land Title Guarantee Co. The city of Boulder was this year’s project sponsor. CU’s “Boulder International Center” included plans for an Andaz Boulder Hotel, a 108,302-square-foot Class A office building, a community events cen…

Madden rolls out new high-design tower

29 April 2013 | Posted in Office, Denver Market
Developer John Madden is ready to roll out his new masterpiece – a $100 million office tower in Greenwood Village. Madden aims to start construction of the 360,000-square-foot LEED Gold building by August for occupancy in summer 2015. Like his last office building, Palazzo Verdi, Palazzo Verdi II will be something to behold, with sculptures of three life-size giraffes welcoming tenants and guests to its lobby. Read the entire story in the May 1-14 issue.

Conscience Bay acquires third industrial building for $8.8m

29 April 2013 | Posted in Industrial, Boulder County & U.S. 36 Corridor
A Boulder private equity firm acquired the final piece of an industrial property strategically located near the city’s new transit village. Conscience Bay Co. paid $8.8 million, or $88 per square foot, for the 100,000-sf industrial building on five acres at 3825 Walnut St. The building is 100 percent leased to the Denver Newspaper Agency, Grainger Industrial Supply and eTundra, a restaurant supply company. It the last of three buildings that DPC Development Co. owned in Fo…

Group pays $160.67 per sf for Cherry Creek office building

29 April 2013 | Posted in Office, Denver Market
A local investment group, in its second recent acquisition, paid $160.67 per square foot for a Cherry Creek office building. PIII Properties acquired the 26,930-square-foot building at 3400 E. Bayaud St. in Denver for $4.3 million. The building was 100 percent occupied. Derek Vanderryst of Miller Frishman Group represented the buyer. The listing brokers were David Tilton and John Torp of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank. “We achieved a pretty high price per square foot,&rdquo…

White Lodging to build first dual-branded Hyatt in Denver

24 April 2013 | Posted in Denver Market, Hospitality, Economic Development
White Lodging Services will build its first dual-branded Hyatt hotel near the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver. The 21-story building at the southeast corner of 14th Street and Glenarm Place will combine a Hyatt Place hotel with White Lodging’s first newly constructed Hyatt House. The company will operate the 346-room hotel under a franchise agreement. Read more in CREJ's May 1-May 14 issue.

Rosemont Realty buys World Trade Center

17 April 2013 | Posted in Office, Denver Market
Rosemont Realty LLC, a commercial real estate investment company with approximately 18 million square feet of commercial office space valued in excess of $1.8 billion, has acquired the two-building Denver World Trade Center office towers in downtown Denver. Rosemont Realty purchased the Class A, 770,221 square foot office complex from I&G Denver WTC, LLC. The sales price was not disclosed. The complex includes two Class A, LEED Gold-certified towers. Tower I is a 28-stor…

Westin Hotel planned in Greenwood Village

16 April 2013 | Posted in Denver Market, Construction, Design & Engineering, Hospitality, Economic Development
Greenwood Village City Council has agreed to sell 3.54 acres of property at the Arapahoe at Village Center Station (on the east side of Interstate 25) for construction of a Westin Hotel. Greenwood Village Hotel LLC, a development group consisting of Waveland Ventures, Jackson Street Holdings and Arrival Partners, expects to begin construction in the fourth quarter. Preliminary plans for the hotel include 200 guest rooms and suites; a signature restaurant and bar welcoming both …

Westmoor buildings trade at $65.49 million

15 April 2013 | Posted in Office, Denver Market, Boulder County & U.S. 36 Corridor
Investors are looking favorably on suburban office, as evidenced by a $65.49 million sale of an asset on the Denver-Boulder corridor. Public records show Investcorp bought Westmoor Place, a 428,029-square-foot Class A office property, from CBRE Global Investors for $153.03 per sf. The three LEED-certified buildings were 89 percent leased to tenants that include LGS Innovations, an Alcatel-Lucent subsidiary, and McKesson Technologies. The two tenants occupy approximately 270,000 …

HFF arranges $230 million for Breakers Resort

15 April 2013 | Posted in Multifamily, Denver Market, Finance & Appraisal
HFF arranged $230 million in financing for The Breakers Resort, a six-village, 1,523-unit, Class A multifamily community in Denver.  The HFF team worked exclusively on behalf of the borrower, The Bascom Group LLC, to secure a $165 million first mortgage, a $26.25 million mezzanine loan, and $38.75 million of preferred equity.  The $165 million first mortgage was a floating-rate loan and included a three-year term with two, one-year extension options. It was provided t…

Industrial build-to-suits in the works

15 April 2013 | Posted in Industrial, Denver Market, Economic Development
Build-to-suits for two users are in the works at Highfield Business Park in Douglas County and Coors Technology Center in Golden. Central Development has broken ground on a 63,981-square-foot tilt-up building at Highfield for Applied Control Equipment, which delivers automation solutions to clients in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and parts of Nebraska and South Dakota. The local business partner in the Rocky Mountain Region for Emerson Process Management, the company services indu…

HFF arranges $230 million financing for The Breakers

9 April 2013 | Posted in Multifamily, Denver Market, Finance & Appraisal
HFF arranged $230 million in financing for The Breakers Resort, a six-village, 1,523-unit, Class A multifamily community in Denver.  The HFF team worked exclusively on behalf of the borrower, The Bascom Group LLC, to secure a $165 million first mortgage, a $26.25 million mezzanine loan, and $38.75 million of preferred equity.  The $165 million first mortgage was a floating-rate loan and included a three-year term with two, one-year extension options. It was provided thr…

Tenants take 66,025 sf at 1801 California

9 April 2013 | Posted in Office, Denver Market, Economic Development
Brookfield Office Properties has leased 66,025 square feet of office space at 1801 California to two tenants. Halcón Resources Corp., an independent energy company, signed an 11-year lease for 43,829 square feet. Charlie Lodge, Alec Wynne, Rob Neblett and Harry Holmes of Avison Young represented the tenant. Newalta, a Canada-based industrial waste management and product recovery company, also signed an 11-year lease. It will occupy 22,196 sf. Colliers International broker…

Transformed printing plant to be multistate draw

4 April 2013 | Posted in Industrial, Office, Denver Market, Economic Development
Ascendant Development plans a next-generation design center at the former Denver Post printing facility at Interstates 25 and 70. Ascendant expects the multifaceted center to be a destination for Colorado and surrounding states. Read more about it in CREJ's April 17 issue.

Pauls Corp. to break ground in Cherry Creek

4 April 2013 | Posted in Office, Denver Market, Economic Development
The Pauls Corp., in a joint venture with FirstBank and Junction Energy Partners, will break ground this fall on an upscale office building in Cherry Creek, one of the first new office buildings in that submarket in 25 years. The 150,000-square-foot building at the northeast corner of First Avenue and St. Paul Street is 40 percent preleased. Read about it in CREJ's April 17 issue.

Kresher Capital adds historic building to portfolio

1 April 2013 | Posted in Office, Denver Market
Kresher Capital has acquired a historic office building in the Prospect neighborhood as it continues to build its Colorado property portfolio. Kresher paid $4.4 million, or $152.22 per square foot, for the three-story building at 3012 Huron St. The 28,926-sf building dates to 1917 and is fully leased to digital signage company Four Winds Interactive. “We really feel good about the building. It’s a beautiful historic building,” said Kresher Director Patrick Dunn…

Developer assembles Boulder redevelopment sites

1 April 2013 | Posted in Retail, Office, Denver Market, Boulder County & U.S. 36 Corridor, Economic Development
A Denver-based company has been busy assembling redevelopment sites in Boulder, including five acres sandwiched between Whole Foods Market, the transit village and the Twenty Ninth Street shopping and entertainment center. Brickstone Partners, which has been active in the Boulder student housing/apartment market, plans to begin the entitlement process for the property within the next 90 days. It is exploring 400,000 to 500,000 square feet of development, including office or hospi…