Cassidy Turley Fuller Real Estate had a busy April, closing a flurry of sales and lease transactions, including some blockbusters.

Many of the deals, including the 555,000-square-foot United Natural Foods Inc. build-to-suit handled by CTF brokers Alec Rhodes and Tyler Smith, were in the works for months. But there was a noticeable overall pickup in both industrial and office leasing activity that Cassidy Turley Fuller President and CEO Greg Morris says is continuing into the second quarter.

Broker Doug Wulf was particularly hard at work, teaming with various other CTF brokers to complete Merrick & Co.’s 103,508-sf lease at Greenwood Corporate Center, a 66,986-sf deal for 5280 Solutions in Highlands Ranch, a 49,584-sf lease by First Western Financial, and a 25,221-sf renewal and expansion for a big oil company downtown.

According to Cassidy Turley’s chief economist, Kevin Thorpe, who was in town for a market update hosted by the Denver office, Denver’s office market is “very close” to full recovery – although both he and Morris warn uncertainty over the European economic crisis and upcoming presidential election cloud the picture. See details on the CTF forecast in CREJ’s June 6 edition.