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Continuum buys Market St. Station

Continuum Partners has acquired Market Street Station in downtown Denver. Continuum purchased the property, through an affiliate, from the city of Denver for $14.5 million and will develop Market Station. Current plans call for 90,000 square feet of creative office space, 85,000 sf of retail and approximately 225 apartment units. The $150 million project will…

Kris Oppermann Stern

December 21, 2015

Construction defects debate in offing

As municipalities take it upon themselves to find ways to deal with construction defects issues, the debate will return to the Statehouse this session – and at least some legislators are optimistic. “I think the atmosphere is right this year for passage of this bill, whatever it may look like. It won’t be easy,” Sen.…

Kris Oppermann Stern

December 15, 2015

MIG picks up Dry Creek Business Park

A large, high-quality flex development in Denver’s southeast industrial submarket sold for $27.75 million, or $113.72 per square foot. MIG Real Estate purchased Dry Creek Business Park, a 244,028-sf property at 7300-7348 S. Alton Way in Centennial from Greenfield Partners. The park consists of 15 buildings that are 93 percent leased to roughly 90 tenants.…

Kris Oppermann Stern

December 14, 2015

Inverness Hotel a premier addition

Silverwest Hotels LLC’s growing list of hotels now includes a premier property in its own backyard. Silverwest’s multimillion-dollar acquisition of the Inverness Hotel and Conference Center, on behalf of Silverwest Hotel Fund(s) I/IA, represents the Denver-based company’s first asset in the Denver metro area. “To have an anchor asset like the Inverness to add to…

Kris Oppermann Stern

December 14, 2015

Centre Point buys office building

(katieaustin.tv)

Kris Oppermann Stern

December 14, 2015

Apartment sale sets a record

It wasn’t a huge apartment deal in terms of the sales price. But the recent sale of the 58-unit Village West in Arvada was significant for two reasons. First, it illustrated the attractiveness of value-add deals for investors. It also is an example of how Arvada is increasingly on the radar screen of investors. Read…

Kris Oppermann Stern

December 13, 2015

Community room hit in Natural Grocers

When Natural Grocers opens a new store, neighbors often cheer that they have access to fresh organic foods that is it famous for selling.In addition its fresh food, all of its new stores, and recently remodeled ones, have something else ⎯ community rooms. In addition its fresh food, all of its new stores, and recently…

Kris Oppermann Stern

December 13, 2015

Gelt enters Denver market

In April 2014, California-based TruAmerica made its first apartment community acquisition in Denver by paying $55 million for the 564-unit Tamarac apartment community. Recently, TruAmerica sold the community on a 25.16-acre site at 3300 S. Tamarac Drive to another California company, Gelt Inc., for $74 million. It also was Gelt’s first purchase in Denver. The…

Kris Oppermann Stern

December 13, 2015

Embassy Suites sets record price per key

CWI 2 acquired the Embassy Suites Denver - Downtown/Convention Center hotel, an institutional-quality, full-service property with 403 suites situated in one of the top five U.S. lodging markets by RevPAR growth. (PRNewsFoto/Carey Watermark Investors 2) The Embassy Suites by Hilton hotel across from the Colorado Convention Center eclipsed Denver’s previous record price per key with…

Kris Oppermann Stern

November 30, 2015

RMI sale-leaseback nets $13 million

A sale-leaseback with a Chicago buyer netted Rocky Mountain Instrument $13 million for its 89,360-square-foot headquarters facility on 8.7 acres in Lafayette. Zaragon Inc., a real estate investment and management company, purchased the property at 106 Laser Drive. RMI signed a 20-year lease with the new owner. The property includes excess land, which Zaragon is…

Kris Oppermann Stern

November 30, 2015

Kris Oppermann Stern is publisher and editor of Building Dialogue, a Colorado Real Estate Journal publication, and editor of CREJ's construction, design, and engineering section, including news and bylined articles. Building Dialogue is a quarterly, four-color magazine that caters specifically to the AEC industry, including features on projects and people, as well as covering trends in design, construction, interior design, development and more. Kris joined CREJ as an editor in 1998, after serving as editor of the Colorado Springs Business Journal. Kris earned her Bachelor of Arts, Journalism and Mass Communication, from the University of Colorado at Boulder. When not covering Colorado’s commercial AEC community, she enjoys Pilates, reading, traveling, walking her Golden Retriever and cheering on her hockey-playing son.