There will be stunning views from Shea Properties’ 28-story apartment building in the middle of downtown Denver, but the most interesting view may be from the street. Passers-by of the high-end apartments on Curtis Street will look up to see people swimming behind a 40-by-9-foot wall of glass at the end of the pool. “This…

California dreaming. If you are a Denver-based apartment broker, you don’t need to be a Mommas and the Poppas fan to be tuned in to the importance of California investors. “I think last year 26 percent of our deals from our office were from California,” said Tyler Stevens, who recently joined the Denver office of…

I entered the commercial real estate Matrix. I donned the virtual reality goggles, and the 2,000-square-foot office that Walkthrough leases with another company in Lower Downtown was replaced by office furniture supplied by one of Walkthrough’s customers, Interior Environments. A virtual, green-lined grid, which reminded me of the Matrix, kept me from walking into the…

Saunders Development has partnered with owners Byron, Andy and Brett Weiss to develop the Denver Rock Drill project, a 700,000-square-foot, $250 million project comprised of office, retail, residential and hotel in the historic Cole neighborhood near the 38th and Blake commuter-rail station. Denver Rock Drill is currently preleasing office and retail space and plans to break ground on construction…

Steve Ferris, Founder and principal, Real Estate Garage, Denver This the first in the series on Denver’s “Whale Sites,” defined as extremely prominent underdeveloped land parcels whose size and location will influence Denver’s future growth and development. Examples include the Bell Tower site, Aquarium Parking Lots, Burnham Yard, the former Denver Post Printing Site and…

Teams from Milender White and the St. Charles Town Co. recently made the 67-mile trip to Silverthorne to make pitches on redeveloping the heart of the downtown of the Summit County community. Milender White and the St. Charles Town Co. were the two group that responded to a request for proposals to redevelop about 3.25 acres…

Millennials. Every city wants them. Denver is actually getting them. A fair share of the 10,000 or so people moving to the Mile High City every month are in the coveted demographic group. Many of these millennials are renters, good news for the Denver area multifamily market. “Millennials are the biggest generation ever” and also…

An investment group called Aurora Highlands LLC plans to begin developing The Aurora Highlands, a 2,900-acre mixed-use, master-planned community in 2017, pending final approval and support from the city of Aurora and Adams County. The community will be an integral piece of the larger 21,000-acre Aerotropolis development currently being planned south of Denver International Airport.…

“There will never be a better day.” Friends of the late John O’Meara merely had to repeat that quote,  “There will never be a better day,” and everyone knew exactly what they were talking about. Those seven words captured the spirit and drive of O'Meara. O’Meara, also known as “Mr. Inverness,” a pioneer of the…