The Colorado State Bank building, a 26-story office tower that takes its name from its anchor tenant, has hit the market. The 445,595-square-foot Colorado State Bank Building is owned by LBA Realty, based in Irvine, Calif. “LBA Realty started buying distressed properties around 2002” and continued its buying spree for the next decade, according to…

The clock is ticking on an opportunity to buy a parking lot at 19th Street and Walnut Place that is described as the last development parcel available near Denver Union Station. Offer are due this Thursday, Sept. 27, for the 16,091-square-foot parking lot at 2001 19th St. and 1903 Chestnut Place. The property, which is zoned for a…

Flywheel Capital, a Denver-based private real estate investment group created slightly more than a year ago, recently completed an assemblage of almost 4 acres on the southwest corner of East Evans Avenue and south Interstate 25. “It’s Main and Main,” said Ben Hrouda, founder and managing partner of Flywheel. In total, Flywheel and its development…

The mystery buyer who has the prominent “Bell Park” site along Speer Boulevard under contract has taken a preliminary, but necessary, step in buying one of the most high-profile sites in downtown Denver. The unidentified buyer hired the firm Terracon Co., which on Monday was boring 80 feet under the surface of the site to…

Sprawl. Is sprawl like pornography? Speaking of the latter in 1964, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously said, “I know it when I see it,” even though it might be difficult to articulate in words. Not that sprawl, whether in an urban or suburban setting, hasn’t been defined. “The term sprawl, as used by…

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…

Office envy. The Denver area’s office market is approaching a decade of expansion and likely will continue to be one of the top office markets in the U.S. “Denver’s office market continued full steam ahead in its ninth straight year of expansion,” according to a recently released second quarter research report from Newmark Knight Frank.…

Forest City has been a force in Denver for the past two decades. In 1998, the city of Denver named Forest City, now a real estate investment trust, the master developer of the former Stapleton International Airport. “Stapleton is one of the largest urban infill redevelopment projects in U.S. history,” crowed the Cleveland-based Forest City…

Hotels in the Denver area boasted record revenues in June. Hotels generated $186.23 million in revenues, a 5.04 percent increase from $177.28 million in June 2017, according to the most recent report from STR, a data and analytics specialist. The revenue increase comes despite the total number of hotel room nights in the metro area…

Land demand along the Front Range is through the roof. In fact, there has never been a time in Denver area history when there has been so much interest to buy property for residential and commercial development, according to veteran land broker Mike Kboudi. “Demand is hot,” said Kboudi, a senior managing director in the…