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Edge 470

Etkin Johnson buys southeast land for 334,000-sf campus

Etkin Johnson Real Estate Partners has acquired just over 28 acres in the southeast suburban submarket to develop a 334,000-square-foot Class A industrial/flex campus called Edge 470. The first phase of the campus, which will include two approximately 80,000-sf buildings on 12.8 acres, is expected to break ground in the third quarter and be delivered…

Kris Oppermann Stern

March 29, 2019
Johnson

GE Johnson tackling substance abuse

The story Jim Johnson uses to illustrate the dangers of alcohol and drug problems on a construction site is made up, but that doesn’t make the takeaway any less true or powerful. Imagine a crane operator moving tons of steel on a construction site after spending a restless night with his wife worrying about their…

Kris Oppermann Stern

March 27, 2019
alameda parkway

Civitas redesigns 2 iconic Denver parkways as pedestrian friendly

Denver urban design and landscape architecture firm Civitas has designed two Denver parkways. The firm’s design is under construction, transforming the four-lane arterial Alameda Parkway in the Belmar area of Lakewood.

Kris Oppermann Stern

March 25, 2019
Pena Station

Peña Station North emerges

Peña Station Next is a cutting-edge, sustainable, transit-oriented development that has generated local, national and international headlines. For example, it is  is home to the Panasonic Smart City, called CityNow, that develops and tests tomorrow’s technology in a real neighborhood. The site, largely owned and developed by L.C. Fulenwider Inc., a family owned company that has…

Kris Oppermann Stern

March 25, 2019
Inova Aero industrial

Inova Aero lifts off with 43-acre land acquisition

United Properties has acquired an additional 43 acres of land to expand Inova Business Park in Centennial. Located at the intersection of South Lima Street and East Easter Avenue, the new development will be called Inova Aero. It could accommodate up to 480,000 square feet of industrial space, or 300,000 sf of build-to-suit office space…

Kris Oppermann Stern

March 18, 2019
sienna sloans cafe

Pinkard delivers Koelbel and Co.’s Sienna Sloans Lake

Pinkard Construction recently delivered Sienna Sloans Lake, which was designed by Van Meter Williams Pollack. Koelbel and Co. and Trailbreak Partners developed the 49-unit affordable apartment project on the old St. Anthony Hospital campus. 

Kris Oppermann Stern

March 17, 2019
Peakview

Schnitzer West buys site entitled for up to 1 million square feet

Schnitzer West has acquired a site across the street from Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre that is entitled for more than 1 million square feet of development. Peakview Place, a 10.9-acre parcel at 6363 Greenwood Plaza Blvd. in Centennial, was one of two properties Schnitzer West purchased in an off-market deal. The price wasn’t released, but it…

Kris Oppermann Stern

March 16, 2019
FBI Denver Field Office

USAA nabs FBI building in Stapleton for $72.9 million

USAA Real Estate paid $72.9 million, or about $423 per square foot, for a building and annex that house the FBI’s field office for Colorado and Wyoming. The 144,143-sf main building, which sits on 9.9 acres at 8000 E. 36thAve. in Denver’s Stapleton neighborhood, was built for the agency in 2010. London-based 90 North Real…

Kris Oppermann Stern

March 16, 2019
3005 Center Green

Graham Street Realty buys $28 million in assets

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Kris Oppermann Stern

March 15, 2019
proposed Marriott

Full-service Marriott proposed across from convention center

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Kris Oppermann Stern

March 15, 2019

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.