LAKEWOOD, COLO. – A 41-unit apartment building in Lakewood has sold to a 1031 Exchange buyer for $4 million. The community is located at 375 S. Depew Street, near the Belmar Shopping Center. The buyer was represented by Jeff Johnson of Pinnacle Real Estate Advisors’ Johnson Ritter Team. The unnamed seller was represented by Josh Newell of the firm’s Newell Team.
DENVER — IMT Capital has acquired the 338-unit Alta Alameda Station in Denver for an undisclosed sum. The LEED-Gold-certified community is located at 275 S. Cherokee Street in the Baker neighborhood. The Baker neighborhood, just west of South Broadway, hasn’t received any new housing development in 10 years, according to Alta Alameda’s seller, Wood Partners. Alta Alameda was completed this past July. It is currently more than 90 percent occupied. The community sits across the street from the Alameda Light Rail station, which provides access to Downtown Denver and the Denver Tech Center. The site was previously home to a canning facility that provided rations during World War II, a Coors bottling plant and the Denver Studio complex. IMT Capital purchased this community with its affiliate, IMT Residential. Wood Partners is currently building three other luxury apartment communities in the Denver metro area, including Alta City House next to Union Station, Alta Harvest Station in Broomfield and Alta Cherry Hills in Englewood.
LONE TREE, COLO. – Charles Schwab has opened its 650,000-square-foot office campus in Lone Tree. The property will serve as the brokerage and banking company’s corporate campus. The campus is located at 9800 Schwab Way within the RidgeGate community. The new property will also house Schwab’s retail building that’s on the corner of Lincoln Avenue and Park Meadows Boulevard. It is one of four branches in the Denver area. The campus contains three five-story office buildings, a two-story retail branch, two parking garages and an amenities building that features a 15,000-square-foot employee dining facility. So far, about 70 percent of the campus has been completed. Two of the three office buildings are ready for occupancy. The third is scheduled for completion next summer. Schwab plans to move about 2,000 employees to its campus over the next year and a half. Construction on the campus began in March 2013. It was built by Mortenson Construction and designed by Fentress Architects. Schwab is pursuing LEED-Platinum certification on the campus. Sustainability features include a two-acre green roof, green materials, daylighting, water-saving devices and an optimized HVAC system.
DENVER — The 120-unit Remington Place apartment complex in Denver has sold to Virtú Investments for $15.1 million. The community is located at 8000 E. Girard Ave. It was built in 1970. The property is near the DTC Business Corridor, the largest employment center in metro Denver. It was 95 percent leased at the time of sale. The seller, Busboom Group, was represented by Terrance Hunt, Shane Ozment, Andy Hellman and Kevin Jewett of ARA Colorado.
DENVER — WG Enterprises LLC has acquired two industrial buildings in Denver for $3.1 million. The buildings are located at 8100-8300, 8130 and 8131 East 40th Ave. They total 18,158 square feet. WG Enterprises was represented by Greg Knott and Brad Gilpin of Unique Properties. The seller, the Duff Estate, was represented by Alec Rhodes, Tyler Smith and Aaron Valdez of Cassidy Turley.
LAKEWOOD, COLO. — Brown and Caldwell has leased 32,925 square feet of office space in Lakewood. The space is located at 1527 Cole Blvd. The engineering firm was represented by Joe Sigdestad and Ted Harris of Cassidy Turley. The landlord, Denver West Office Leasing Company, was represented by CBRE’s Blake Harris.
Construction of apartment buildings is leading the Denver metro area’s building boom, with more than 19,000 units starting construction in 2012 and 2013 that are expected to be delivered this year. This is the most apartments this market has added in such a short period of time in more than 40 years. This construction boom follows a stretch where we saw little multifamily development, which created a short-term need to catch up with current population growth demands. Some perceive this level of development as overbuilding, though recent population growth statistics may indicate otherwise. The Downtown Denver area is particularly hot for apartment developers, with about 4,000 units under construction. The majority of this work is being done around the Denver Union Station transit station. The activity is being fueled by the region’s population growth, which averaged 1.7 percent per year between 2007 and 2012, maintaining a stable expansion rate through most of the recent recession and recovery, according to the Metro Denver Economic Development Corp. The organization projects population growth — mostly attributed to strong net migration — will moderate slightly to 1.6 percent this year, which is more robust than the projected U.S. growth rate of less than 1 …
Despite the continuing economic uncertainty, the Denver market is maintaining its status as a major thriving city with respect to all aspects of growth from commercial real estate sectors. This growth is clearly apparent by all the cranes in operation as you drive down Interstate 25—the main arterial highway that runs north and south bound through the entire state. Though 1.2 million square feet of retail was built in 2013 – and 197,000 square feet was delivered in the first quarter of 2014 – most of the current cranes are working on medical, office and multifamily developments. With all the national retailers setting their sights on the Denver market, there is a definite lack of A-grade retail centers that have availability. B-grade product is now being thoroughly analyzed as the next best option. Several of the national and regional tenants are in bidding wars against each other for the remaining A- and B-grade sites. The challenge of the development process is the growing cost of land and construction, which ultimately drives the rates up, thus limiting a huge pool of potential tenants. The Denver retail market in the first quarter of 2014 experienced a positive net absorption of 820,357 square …
Fueled by an increase in population and job growth, Denver’s robust housing market and the constant influx of young professionals to the region has attracted some attention. Both new and existing retailers and investors are now looking to either penetrate or expand within this ever-growing market. Metro Denver added a total of 37,300 jobs last year. This was an increase of 2.7 percent from 2011, according to the Metro Denver Economic Development Corp. The region’s growth rate has consistently outpaced the national rate in every decade since the 1930s. By 2020, the region’s population is expected to increase from 2.9 million today to more than 3.2 million. Retailers are definitely taking note. Cabela’s, a Nebraska-based outfitter of hunting, fishing and outdoor gear, has two stores under construction that should be completed in the third quarter of this year. These will represented Cabela’s second and third Colorado locations. The chain already has a Grand Junction outpost. THF Realty also recently completed the 147,806-square-foot Walmart in the Lakeside Shopping Center redevelopment area. Metro Denver has seen quite a few Walmart Neighborhood Markets pop up throughout the region recently. Also new to the Denver market is Trader Joe’s. The California-based specialty grocer plans …
After emerging from the downturn, Denver’s industrial market is well and truly back on its feet. As options for large, Class A industrial users of more than 200,000 square feet dwindle, build-to-suit projects are popping up at levels last seen in 2006 and 2007. This is a great sign for the overall health and recovery of the state’s industrial real estate market. Polystrand has almost completed a 120,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in southeast Denver; Interline Distribution is underway with a more than 200,000-square-foot warehouse project along the I-70 corridor scheduled for delivery in August 2012; and U.S. Foods recently purchased land in Eastgate Park where it plans to build a 400,000- to 500,000-square-foot building. There are several other users that have either made similar land purchases or are in the market for large portions of land. In fact, there is a healthy inventory of well-located development sites available, which can be purchased at prices that make sense for users choosing the build-to-suit route. Although large blocks of quality Class A space are sparse in the Denver region, rental rates have not yet risen to a level that would compel developers to start speculative development. Also, there is little guarantee that their …