Senior housing in the Boulder-Denver area faces both challenges and opportunities, notes industry expert Elisabeth Borden. The area’s low unemployment level is creating serious labor shortages in senior properties, while opportunities abound to create a new generation of senior housing to serve baby boomers, explains Borden. “Boomers are also open to options such as for-sale…

Shane Seitz is the $10 billion man. Now that I’ve caught your attention, let me explain. Seitz, a senior vice president for CBRE’s Healthcare Capital Markets division, has been involved in more than $10 billion in commercial real estate acquisitions during his 20-year career. Ten billion is a big number. However, what makes it especially…

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…

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…

Bob Moody used to run marathons. “I used to do a lot of them,” said Moody, who recently received the prestigious President’s Award from the Colorado chapter of NAIOP, for his many years of leadership at the commercial real estate organization. “Running keeps you alive. It gives you a healthy heart.” Moody paused for a…

David Schwartz may be on the ground floor of what could become a trend in some of Denver’s hottest neighborhoods. Schwartz is in the early stages of looking at selling all of the for-sale infill townhomes he developed near Sloan’s Lake to one buyer. The buyer likely would convert the units into rentals. The idea…

Richard W. Scharf Jr., as president and CEO of Visit Denver, the Convention and Visitor’s Bureau, is at the helm of a nonprofit sales and marketing arm that annually produces more than $500 million of direct economic growth to the Denver metro area. During the past 26 years with the bureau, Scharf has had a…

Terrance Hunt sums up his prediction for the Denver area apartment market with four words: “more of the same.” And while “more of the same” at first blush might sound pretty boring, it’s actually pretty great. That’s because absorption has defied skeptics who have feared the Denver apartment market has been on the brink of…

More than a year ago,  Steve Rogers, president of 8020 Builders, and top officials from LCP Development stood on the roof of the forlorn and long-vacated King Soopers building that once anchored a 7-acre site in Edgewater. As Rogers and the developers looked to the east, with Sloan’s Lake in the foreground and Denver’s skyline…

Southern Land Co. (SLC), announced on Tuesday that it has broken ground on its long-awaited mixed-use community across from the new Google campus in Boulder. The six-acre, four-building Rêve Boulder, at 30th and Pearl Streets, is across from Google’s new office campus. Rêve Boulder will include luxury apartments, retail and office space. It marks SLC’s…