Architect John David “Andy” Anderson had a message for Arnold Schwarzenegger. “We are very careful not to let people tear buildings down,” Mr. Anderson said in 1995, as the head of the powerful board called the Lower Downtown Design and Demolition Review Board.

The crane is Colorado’s new state bird. I first wrote that line, or something like it, for the Rocky Mountain News in the mid-1980s. At that time, developers from Canada, Texas and other places, were changing the skyline of Denver. Cranes are towering over Denver. Photo courtesy of GE Johnson. During that era, Republic Plaza…

Lakehouse breaks ground tomorrow. Lakehouse is the 12-story, 206-unit condominium tower in Sloans, the mixed-use development on the former St. Anthony Hospital campus. Lakehouse sits across from Sloan’s Lake, the largest body of water in Denver.

Adams County is on a roll. An unnamed company is expected to announce later this year that it will bring a record 3,500 to jobs to Adams County. To put that in perspective, the most jobs ever announced in one year in Adams County took place just before the Great Recession hit. And that was…

Pinnacle Real Estate Advisors has been the perfect fit for James Mansfield. “Pinnacle has exceeded my expectations,” Mansfield told me last week. Mansfield, a veteran of big firms such as Cushman & Wakefield, Opus Northwest LLC, Brookfield Office Properties and Grubb & Ellis, initially joined Pinnacle in November 2015. Last month, he was one of…

Land demand in the Denver area is off the charts. “On activity, it probably is record as far as buyers of land,"  said Mike Kboudi, a land broker with Cushman & Wakefield. Competition is fierce. "It is really hard to get a good piece of ground,” said Kboudi, who during the past five years has sold…

The Northern Colorado Interstate 25 corridor always seems to be on the verge of taking off. "That whole northern I-25 corridor is red-hot," according to a prominent commercial real estate consultant. She told me that in 2003, when I was the real estate editor of the Rocky Mountain News. Anyone who makes the drive from…

Ever since I broke the story last July that the Cherry Creek Shopping Center would begin charging for parking in 2017, shoppers and many tenants in Denver’s premier mall have been, shall we say, upset. Last month, an ipetitions.com site was launched to try to convince Cherry Creek to once again provide free parking, as…

Riki Hashimoto’s phone was ringing off the hook late last week. Anxious investors had one question for the commercial real estate broker after President Donald Trump released his still skeletal outline for tax reform last Wednesday: “Are 1031 exchanges going away?” While a lot of media ink was devoted to things like the proposed 15…

Riki Hashimoto’s phone was ringing off the hook late last week. Anxious investors had one question for the commercial real estate broker after President Donald Trump released his still skeletal outline for tax reform last Wednesday: “Are 1031 exchanges going away?” While a lot of media ink was devoted to things like the proposed 15…