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Hess Ranch

Hess Ranch development to begin with $41 million sale

Parker’s first large-scale, fully integrated master-planned community will begin to take shape with the $41 million sale of Hess Ranch. JEN Colorado, an affiliate of New York-based JEN Partners, acquired the 1,333-acre tract of land between Parker Road and Rueter-Hess Reservoir. Current zoning allows for some 2,489 residential units and 1.25 million square feet of…

Kris Oppermann Stern

April 21, 2018
Colorado Center Tower 3.

Cigna to establish regional headquarters at Colorado Center

Global insurance and health services company Cigna has signed a lease for 135,800 square feet in Colorado Center’s recently completed Tower 3. The space will serve as the company’s regional headquarters, housing more than 1,000 employees on five full floors. Colorado Center is located at Interstate 25 and Colorado Boulevard. “Our new home at Colorado…

Kris Oppermann Stern

April 19, 2018
NZE

NZE leasing explored at sustainability conference

NZE, or more precisely Net Zero Energy, leasing is the final panel at the Sustainability: Achieving the Next Level conference sponsored by the Colorado Real Estate Journal. You will want to stay for that panel, even if you don’t qualify for the four hours of continuing education credit. The half-day conference, CREJ’s principal Green Building event…

Kris Oppermann Stern

April 18, 2018

Environmental Design wins awards for Centerra, Chapungu Sculpture Park

Environmental Designs, a full-service landscape company, was recently honored with two ELITE Awards by the Associated Landscape Contractors of Colorado. The company’s award-winning submissions included its work at Centerra and the local Chapungu Sculpture Park.

Kris Oppermann Stern

April 16, 2018
PACE

PACE yourself at CREJ C-PACE conference

PACE yourself. C-PACE your commercial building, that is. C-PACE is acronym for Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy. While the name is quite a mouthful, this new and innovative financing tool is a great way for commercial property owners to help the environment while saving money. CREJ is sponsoring a half-day conference on C-PACE on the…

Kris Oppermann Stern

April 16, 2018
Lofts on College

Lofts on College shatters per- unit price at $1.12 million

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Kris Oppermann Stern

April 13, 2018
Building 4

IBC sells building & breaks ground on another at Concord

IBC Holdings recently completed the $9.64 million sale of an industrial building at Concord Business Center and will break ground this month on an identical building in the master-planned business park. Gordon Development II LLC paid $151.65 per square foot for Concord Building 5, a 63,550-sf building at 8644 S. Peoria St. in Englewood. The…

Kris Oppermann Stern

April 13, 2018

As RK moves on, students will examine its Stapleton site

As Stapleton was growing up around it, RK was growing, too. The longtime Denver company now finds its outgrown headquarters, fabrication facility and yard at3800 Xanthia St.sittingalmost island-like among high-end homes. “We are an industrial facility in the midst of half-million-dollar homes,” RK CEO Rick Kinning recently said of the site, which is two blocks…

Kris Oppermann Stern

April 13, 2018
Medley

Medley bringing scrap metal biz, good works to Commerce City

George Medley spent his last stint in jail in the Adams County Detention Center in 2004. Today (April 13), Ben Gelt is scheduled to submit plans to Commerce City’s planning commission for Medley’s new home for his Denver Scrap Metal and Recycling - an operation with $12 million in revenues. The jail is less than…

Kris Oppermann Stern

April 13, 2018
the lydian

Construction continues on The Lydian in Five Points neighborhood

Construction continues on the $50 million Lydian, an eight-story mixed-use development at 26th Avenue and Welton Street, in downtown Denver’s historic Five Points neighborhood at 2590 Welton St. It is being developed by Confluence Cos. and Palisade Partners.

Kris Oppermann Stern

April 12, 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.