Straight to the Source. The Source Hotel, that is. I put Stephen Dynia on the spot by asking him if he thought the soaring Source Hotel in the River North Art District would be considered an iconic building. ”I hope it is,” replied the architect, principal of Dynia Architects and the designer of the $50…

Rental-shoe-dropping silence. The sound you are not hearing is the other shoe dropping regarding the local rental housing market. For several years, even some industry leaders have been projecting that Denver’s bull market for rental units was going to run out of steam. With an apartment crane seemingly on every block, overbuilding would lead to…

Englewood has been flying below the radar for a long time. Now, Englewood’s commercial core is poised to be begin the process of being re-invented as a revitalized and walkable transit-oriented, mixed-use development site. Indeed, Englewood’s 55-acre CityCenter already is a pioneering transit-oriented developmet (TOD) in the Denver area. Development within a half-mile of a…

Mortgage bankers financed much of what is Denver. Mortgage lenders, working with banks, insurance companies and government agencies, financed many commercial buildings and apartments in Denver and nationwide. Veteran mortgage banker E. Michael Rosser chronicles the history of the mortgage industry in Denver and beyond in his new, 372-page book, “A History of Mortgage Banking…

PCL Construction has built a lot of high-profile commercial real estate and government buildings in Colorado and the Denver area since the Canadian company moved its U.S. headquarters to the Mile High City more than four decades ago. A small snapshot of the eclectic mix of PCL’s projects include: The Byron G. Rogers Courthouse in…

Smart city spotlight. No city will boast it has a low IQ, of course. But what makes a smart city? How the use of the latest in technology and data can actually change the infrastructure and the very fabric of a city, creating winners and losers, and where Denver fits into the smart city eco-system,…

Kentwood Real Estate's new DTC office is a mere nine-minute drive from the old space it was leasing in the Denver Tech Center. But the new space, in a brand-new $25 million office building at 4949 S. Niagara St. in the One DTC West district west of the tech center, is an entirely new experience…

West End 38 recently broke ground on a key corner in Wheat Ridge. West End 38 also is a groundbreaking development in Wheat Ridge. “This is the first new market-rate, mixed-use project of any size in Wheat Ridge since the early 1990s,” said Tyler Downs, a principal of Denver-based Wazee Partners, the developer of the $40…

Ultra Petroleum Corp., a battered oil-and-gas exploration company, with little fanfare, recently announced it is moving its headquarters to the Denver area from Houston. Later this year, Ultra Petroleum, which trades on NASDQ under the symbol UPL, will close its Houston office and most likely move to an existing building in the Inverness Business Park…

Loup Development and Western Centers are a lot alike. Both Loup and Western Centers are longtime family owned commercial real estate firms with decades of history of owning and managing small shopping centers and other properties in the Denver area and Colorado. Both firms have a reputation for treating tenants in their shopping centers like…