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Who owns Colorado: After the storm
Social Darwinism – survival of the fittest and all that – is way out of fashion these days and pretty well totally un-PC, but folks who follow Colorado homebuilders still find good reason to turn to the Great Man for explanation. No, we do not refer to his famous quotation that, “It is not the […]
Who owns Colorado: Welcome to Glendale
Glendale is entirely surrounded by the city and county of Denver. This makes the little city a true enclave, which makes it something akin to San Marino, the Kingdom of Lesotho and Napoleon's grave in Saint Helena.Glendale, like Boulder, also has both suffered and benefited from its enclave-ness, o...
Builders in survival mode
Front Range real estate has turned the corner. There, we said it. The market remains a buyer's market, but still. Who Owns Colorado bases this semi-bold announcement on two sources of evidence: statistical and anecdotal. Statistical evidence tends to be kind of boring even when it's dramatic, as it...
Wandering in the unemployment wilderness
Having been lost in the unemployment wilderness for over two years, I am still searching for the trail that isn’t on the map. As a matter of fact, there’s not even a map of the wilderness. After 35 years in the real estate profession as an agent, a manager and as a state-certified real estate […]
Who owns Colorado: Prices fall with the snow at Winter Park and Fraser Valley
The resort's 2006 annexation not only gave Winter Park its claim to the town-altitude crown, it gave Denver, Winter Park and Intrawest the means to open a new chapter in planning and development. Which they have opened. In town, development and the secondary real estate market now take place agains...
Colorado Business Hall of Fame: Myron “Micky” Miller
Myron “Micky” Miller is a third-generation Coloradan, and for that and other reasons he’s still delighted, grateful and a little awed to be here. The same could be said for Miller’s reaction to his 2011 induction into the Colorado Business Hall of Fame. A real estate titan by any definition, Miller more than deserves the […]
Denver’s office market: the tenant landscape for 2011…
As the economy stands up from its crawl and begins to slowly step forward, tenants in the Denver office market will be at a crossroads in 2011. As they gradually add new jobs, and as their leases approach expiration, business leaders will have some key decisions to make. • Renew and use surplus space, or […]
Small biz: Foreclosure crisis presents opportunities
Not long ago houses were half-jokingly referred to as ATMs because the “homeowners” (how’s that for a misnomer?) could repeatedly take out home-equity loans or refinance on the assumption that property values would keep rising indefinitely. My, how that’s changed. Now talk of real estate centers on auctions, foreclosures and short sales – cases when […]
Who Owns Colorado: Vail’s winter glow
Let's put it this way: In 2007 just more than $2 billion worth of residential real estate sold in Eagle County. In 2008, that number fell to about $1.5 billion, and in 2009, slumped to $532 million, or 35 percent of the previous year's total. This year for the first time in two years Eagle County r...
CSDA: Commercial
1st PlaceOdell Brewing Co. Expansion Architect RB+B Architects Inc.General contractor/builder Delta ConstructionOverview Odell Brewing Co., a Fort Collins beer maker known for such brands as 90 Shilling and 5 Barrel Pale Ale, nearly doubled the size of its headquarters with a project that expanded its production area, administration center and tasting room. The nearly 50,000-square-foot […][...]
Top Company 2010: Mass Service & Supply LLC
Mass Service & Supply CEO Cathy Grasmick says she’s still a farm girl at heart. The owner of the Pueblo-based business, who grew up on the state’s Eastern plains, directs a fast-growing company that specializes in construction services and project management, primarily for the federal government. The company’s recent projects include a 2,300-square-foot mail center […]
CSDA: Residential
This project included the deconstruction, salvage and donation of the existing building components and the creation of a new, net-zero energy home with an attached 1,000-square-foot grandparents' suite. There's also a 600-square-foot mixed-use/home office space with separate entry on the lower leve...
