California dreaming. If you are a Denver-based apartment broker, you don’t need to be a Mommas and the Poppas fan to be tuned in to the importance of California investors. “I think last year 26 percent of our deals from our office were from California,” said Tyler Stevens, who recently joined the Denver office of…

Condo colossus. A Miami developer has unveiled plans for a $500 million condominium development that would bring 800 condominium units to downtown Denver in two, 40-story towers. The towers, on a 55,000-square-foot property at 1901 Arapahoe St., would represent the single largest condo project ever built in Denver. Units are anticipated to be priced from…

Etkin Johnson Real Estate Partners has sold the former Sports Authority headquarters in Englewood for $15.77 million. West Hampden Investors LLC, a group headed by Stuart Ogilvie of Ogilvie Properties, bought the property, which consists of two office/flex buildings at 1050 and 1090 W. Hampden Ave. The buildings total 210,207 square feet. Sports Authority leased…

I entered the commercial real estate Matrix. I donned the virtual reality goggles, and the 2,000-square-foot office that Walkthrough leases with another company in Lower Downtown was replaced by office furniture supplied by one of Walkthrough’s customers, Interior Environments. A virtual, green-lined grid, which reminded me of the Matrix, kept me from walking into the…

LBA Realty purchased a portfolio of five freestanding, Class A industrial buildings for $26.4 million, or $126.67 per square foot. The buildings comprise 208,418 sf at Mountain West Business Park, which fronts Interstate 70 at the I-225 interchange. Mountain West Industrial Properties developed and sold the portfolio, which it completed in 2008. “They are Class…

Landlords with available industrial product in the central Denver submarket are in prime position to capture tenants being displaced by redevelopment of the National Western Stock Show complex, Interstate 70 reconstruction and the continued exodus of industrial users out of River North. BSI’s recently signed 117,000-square-foot lease at Hub 25, Westfield Co.’s new project at…

Developer Michael Forbes Mathieson could write a book. Mathieson, a Denver infill developer, recently posted a flurry of missives on social media sites responding to critics of his $12 million, five-story, 47-unit apartment building under construction in Denver’s increasingly trendy Berkeley neighborhood. From last fall to last month, Mathieson has posted at least 3,422 words…

There is no simple answer to sum up the state of the senior housing industry along the Front Range. “It’s a big market with 10 different product types,” Elisabeth Borden told me. Borden, principal of The Highland Group, a consulting group in Boulder that provides research, planning and marketing solutions for senior housing and care…