Amazon is amazing. I admit it. I’m an Amazon junkie. I use Amazon Prime almost daily, it seems, to order everything from organic dog food to solar-powered lights. I’ve binged on Amazon originals like "The Man in the High Castle" and "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel." I only wish I had followed the old Peter Lynch maxim to…

Retail, in Denver and across the U.S., faces perhaps the biggest challenges of any of the commercial real estate food groups. Multifamily, office and industrial are impacted by supply and demand, as well as economic fundamentals, as is retail. But retail also has unique challenges from e-commerce, especially from Amazon. After all, people will always need…

Property management has evolved a lot during the past 15 years. And during that time period, thousands of property management experts have learned and benefitted from the knowledge of experts in the field at Colorado Real Estate Journal property management conferences. “This is going to be our 15th anniversary,” Steve Sessions said about the upcoming property…

Denver West was perhaps a decade old in the early 1980s when I toured the office park with its founder, Chuck Stevinson. With my reporter notebook in hand, I sat in the passenger seat of Stevinson’s brand-new Jaguar. His son, Greg, sat in the backseat. The elder Stevinson said that the Jaguar was a bit…

Places are powerful. Places will take front stage at the four-day Saving Places conference that kicks off Jan. 31 at the Colorado Convention Center. Last year, the Saving Places conference, sponsored by the nonprofit Colorado Preservation Inc., drew about 750 people. Architects, developers, planners, preservationists and others came from 40 Colorado counties and 17 states.…

In August 1990, I walked a desolate row of Lower Downtown Denver scattered with broken wine bottles scattered by street people, warehouses, auto body shops and brown fields that would have been green if anyone cared enough to water them. It was part of my Who Owns the Block series at the Rocky Mountain News.…

Union Denver, a luxury apartment community anchored by a long sought-after downtown Whole Foods Market, is scheduled to be completed in February, when the third residential tower opens. The first residential tower opened in May and the second tower in September, but it was the flagship, 50,000-square-foot Whole Foods Market that opened in mid-November that…

Downey and Disney. Tim Downey is a huge fan of Walt Disney. Downey, the founder of Nashville-based Southern Land Co., even knew that Walt Disney was a major investor in the former Celebrity Lanes, a massive entertainment center with an 80-lane bowling alley, indoor swimming pool and restaurants that once stood at South Colorado Boulevard…

Partners Group is on a roll. The global private market management firm, based in Baar, Switzerland, has more than $66 billion in assets under management. Its latest financial report shows the Partners Group, with investments in private equity, real estate, infrastructure and debt, booked a 24.75 percent year-over-year increase in revenues and a 41.6 percent…

Zuni Street is the north-south artery running through the heart of LoHi. Next week, investors will have the opportunity to bid on a rare find along Zuni Street – just shy of an acre at Zuni and West 31st Avenue, a block south of the main east-west corridor through Lower Highland, one of Denver’s hottest…