“Frankly, most people in the business probably don’t know we’re out there,” John Blumberg told me 18 years ago. I was the real estate editor of the Rocky Mountain News and Blumberg was thrilled that a business-to-business site that facilitated the private placement of commercial real estate capital and was owned by his Denver-based Black…

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.…

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.