[vc_column width="2/3"]Front Range commercial real estate stretches from Northern Colorado to Colorado Springs. And while the geographic markets, like asset types, are at different stages on the scale, no area is hitting a truly sour note. “Our entire Front Range market is in a really good place right now,” said Mike Kboudi, a managing director…

Jeff Hawks would be disappointed if he listed a Denver area apartment community and didn't receive at least 10 offers. Hawks is seldom disappointed these days. “To a lot of people’s surprise, the apartment market is holding up fairly well. Everyone believed that we were overbuilding” and Denver’s red-hot apartment market was cooling, said Hawks,…

The Safeway adjacent to the Cherry Creek Shopping Center will close its doors permanently in the coming weeks, months before its Jan. 4 deadline, the Colorado Real Estate Journal has learned. “We are planning to close the store at the end of the month,” said Kris Staaf, director of public affairs for Safeway. CREJ had…

Patricia Hutchison, president of Mission Rock Residential, just returned from a weeklong trip to Houston, surveying the damage of apartment communities her Denver-based company manages in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. Thankfully, only two of the communities suffered any damage, it wasn’t as bad as she feared, and she returned to Denver. Colorado is the…

Amazon Prime. Amazon prime time in Denver, that is. You know what I’m talking about. Everyone in the Denver area is buzzing about the possibility that Amazon could plant its $5 billion flag - a second headquarters - in the Denver area. The New York Times even opined that Denver is the best choice for…

Bill Pauls once casually mentioned to me that soon after he bought the sprawling Meridian International Business Center in Douglas Count, he wondered if he had made a mistake. Pauls, now head of the Pauls Corp., bought Meridian just in time to watch the local economy crash with falling energy prices, putting on hold the…

The company that developed the Peloton in Boulder has the prized 432-acre property in Louisville under contract that is owned by energy giant Phillips 66, the Colorado Real Estate Journal has learned. Bancroft Capital, based in Manhattan Beach, California, appears to have agreed to pay $50 million for the land off U.S. 36, which is…

After more than a half century in the heart of the Cherry Creek neighborhood, the Safeway next to the Cherry Creek Shopping Center will be closing its doors by the first week of January, officials announced today. The 51-year-old Safeway with approximately 50,000 square feet  at 3100 E. First Ave., has been notified by the Taubman…

If you had a blank suburban canvas and had a checklist for a first-class apartment community, it would be hard to beat the 9.89-acre site that is home to Solana Lucent Station. Solana Lucent Station is truly at Main & Main. Site plan for the Solana Lucent Station. Notice how close the future light-rail station…

It’s a lot to live up to if you named your real estate company Majestic. “I didn’t name it that. My dad did,” Ed Roski Jr., owner of Southern California-based Majestic Realty Co., told me last week in an exclusive interview. I wasn’t surprised that Roski didn’t choose the name of the company, the largest…