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Home Manager

Home Manager app hits home for Elowe

Home Manager, an app that replaces a three-ring binder with all of the information about your new home or condo, at first blush might seem like an unusual career segue for developer David Elowe. After all, Elowe, as principal of Denver-based Urban West Group, developed the 11-story, 213-unit One Observatory Park apartment tower near the…

Kris Oppermann Stern

September 4, 2018
Boulder Commons

Boulder Commons to add more office, plus apartments

One of the largest multitenant net-zero-energy developments in the country will begin to grow early next year as Morgan Creek Ventures starts the second and final phase of Boulder Commons. In addition to more office and retail space, the next phase will include a 45,000-square-foot net-zero apartment building with 38 units. “We’ve been wanting to…

Kris Oppermann Stern

September 3, 2018
Firestone Safeway Marketplace

Shadow-anchored, net-leased retail assets in Firestone sell

The growing community of Firestone appears to be attracting investor interest, with separate buyers acquiring two retail properties in unrelated deals. Firestone Safeway Marketplace, a shadow-anchored center at 8110-8196 Colorado Blvd., traded for $5 million, or $221.21 per square foot. Another buyer paid $1.78 million – or $819.85 per sf – for a net-leased retail…

Kris Oppermann Stern

September 2, 2018
aurora rec center

Adolfson & Peterson tops out Aurora’s recreation center

Representing a major milestone in construction, Adolfson & Peterson Construction topped out Aurora’s new recreation center, designed by Populous.

Kris Oppermann Stern

August 31, 2018
Concord Business Center Building 6

User pays $165 per square foot for core-and-shell building

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Kris Oppermann Stern

August 31, 2018
The Ritz-Carlton, Denver

Xenia Hotels & Resorts acquires Ritz-Carlton for $100.25 million

Xenia Hotels & Resorts Inc. has acquired The Ritz-Carlton in downtown Denver for $100.25 million, or approximately $496,000 per key. "We are excited to have added a premier luxury hotel in one of our long-term core markets to our portfolio," said Marcel Verbaas, chairman and chief executive officer of Xenia. "As one of the few…

Kris Oppermann Stern

August 27, 2018
Aloft Broomfield

Aloft Broomfield Denver trades at $19.32 million

A group managed by Maryland-based Real Hospitality Group has acquired the Aloft Broomfield Denver hotel for $19.32 million, or $101,684 per key. The acquisition by AHP Real 3 Denver SPV LLC represents Real Hospitality’s first asset in Colorado, according to Chief Investment Officer Joseph Yi. “We like the market, we like the asset, we like…

Kris Oppermann Stern

August 27, 2018
Colorado Real Estate Journal

Colorado Real Estate Journal industrial conference coming

Colorado Real Estate Journal is hosting an industrial conference as the Denver-area is on the cusp of entering a three-year bull market. The Colorado Real Estate Journal 2018 Industrial Summit & Expo will be held from noon until 4:45 p.m. on Sept. 5 at the Hyatt Regency Aurora-Denver Conference Center. The half-day conference will be…

Kris Oppermann Stern

August 27, 2018
DCPA lobby

Turner Construction: $36M overhaul of 2 DCPA theaters

Turner Construction Co. was awarded the contract to renovate the Stage and Ricketson theaters for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. 

Kris Oppermann Stern

August 26, 2018
1726 Hover

Tebo makes value-add play with vacant Longmont bank building

A Boulder investor purchased a highly visible former bank building in Longmont for $2.3 million, or $127.95 per square foot. The former First National Bank/Sunflower Bank building at 1726 Hover St. was vacant at the time of the sale. The two-story, 17,976-sf building became available following the merger a year ago of First National with…

Kris Oppermann Stern

August 25, 2018

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.