Back in late 2008, the economy was at its lowest point in decades, and no profession was suffering more than real estate sales. A story in the Denver Post described one Realtor who a year earlier had earned six figures…
Kimberly Smith entered the corporate-housing world on a fluke. Near the end of her college days as a political-science major, she took a trip to Vietnam, but decided to try a business internship in San Francisco when she returned. By…
The impact on the commercial real estate market would be substantial and will have a significant impact on commercial tenants and landlords. David Nebiker, Managing Partner of ProTenant (a commercial real estate firm that focuses on assisting Denver and regional…
But something new in workspaces is taking hold around the Front Range, such as new workplace pioneer Mickey Zeppelin's TAXI development in River North, RiNO, that is; or Andrew Luter's brainchild the Hive Cooperative; or Jennie Nevin's Green Spaces, coworking at the other end of RiNO by the Ballpar...
The life of Gerald Gallegos was not quite rags to riches, but it was close. Gallegos, who founded one what has become one of the nation's largest masonry companies, died last week in Denver. Services will be held at Vail's…
What has not changed over the past 20-some years is the sheer huge-ossity, the enormousness or enormity, of most everything associated with Denver International Airport.Giga-normous TOD (transportation-oriented development) projects on the drawing board or otherwise in early stages include Mortenso...
The fortunes of a lot of area commercial brokers and landlords were helped along by the absorption by dispensaries and related retail outlets of vacant space as well as land, warehouse space and more. Last year and earlier this year, you will recall, dispensaries shone hereabouts amid the wreckage...
The lackluster job and housing markets has brought corporate relocations to a near halt. Companies have never been as uncooperative in relocating out-of-state employees as they are today. The Society of Human Resources Management found that 58 percent of companies…
Anybody who has lived around the Denver area has "Cherry Creek" coming out of their ears. Hereabouts we boast a Cherry Creek school district, state park, arts festival, marina, hotel, newspaper, florist and biking and hiking path, not to mention an actual creek. This is only appropriate because Che...
While the Federal Reserve has continued to keep rates near zero, the president of its Kansas City bank says the Fed will have to begin edging rates back up so the economy can achieve long-term health and stability. While Thomas…
IRS figures indicate the First Time Homebuyer tax credits have been a Colorado success story. Among states in the region, only Arizona's $352.4 million in First Time Homebuyer credits exceeded our numbers.
For more than five years, Denver's City Council, planning department and hundreds of volunteers and interested hangers-on have been crafting a new zoning code to replace the cobbled-together rule book that currently guides construction and land use in the city.…
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Real estate's Big Slump is far from over, despite cheery GDP numbers. Yet real estate developers and experts in sustainability persist in seeing sunrise amid the gloom. Observers note that sustainable building has taken its knocks like every other part of the economy. But all argue, often passionat...
To understand the recent history of the town of Eagle, Colo., most of what you need to know is contained in two sets of two numbers.The first is that, in the year 2000, the U.S. Census Bureau counted 3,032 Eagle residents. In mid-2008 it estimated 5,897 people lived there, a 94.5 percent increase."...
When in November the Residences at the Ritz-Carlton fell into receivership, it came as a blow where it hurts to high-end Colorado real estate and to all that represents goodness, purity and unthinkable levels of luxury. After all, we're talking about the Ritz, as in: "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz...
Anybody who has been around the Front Range awhile will recall the days when the landscape from U.S. 36 from Denver to Boulder was where the fruited plain met the purple mountains majesty.It was "one of the most beautiful interurban…
The most closely watched but least useful statistic on the state of the economy is the unemployment rate. Early each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics issues a report, and the headline usually focuses on the change in the unemployment…
Windsor, Colo., has been torn by two terrible storms in the past couple of years, one real, one a metaphor. The metaphorical one might have hurt worse, economically at least.
I realize the Internet is a big place, and once something is posted there it stays forever, and that there have been a few instances of two- or three-year old news stories mysteriously reappearing as "new" news, to much consternation.…
Wayne Leiser, CEO of Colorado Asphalt Services, says that in June 2008 he met with his management team - just three people, including himself - and they came up with an aggressive plan. They met with the heads of departments and gave them two options - they could take a 10 percent pay cut across th...
One of the tricky parts of a recession is that no two downturns are quite the same. The mid-1980s recession was triggered by a nasty slump that already had ended in most of the country. But in those days Colorado…
Former HUD chief Henry Cisneros recently visited Boulder to tout the Peloton, a mixed-use development his company is helping to finance - a $150 million project that increased sales recently by slashing prices. Cisneros, who served as secretary of the…
The nascent 3,120-acre Sterling Ranch is a prospective infill development on the largest contiguous parcel of land in northwestern Douglas County. The land’s treeless panorama offers views of open space to the south and east, and to the west views…
Two years after a tornado killed two people and destroyed or damaged more than 160 homes, the town of Holly, Colo., angles for revival
