Development

By Susan Pratt Reinhardt, AIA, associate principal, Lean Project Consulting, Inc. A construction project is an organization composed of approximately 600 individual companies (including suppliers) with separate contracts, fees and scopes of work, invented to build a single, very expensive product that is then instantly disbanded. It should be no surprise that …

The Design Build Institute of America, Rocky Mountain Region (DBIA-RMR) will donate design and construction services to Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver to make needed improvements to the organization’s Johnson Boys & Girls Club in the West Colfax neighborhood. More than $30,000 worth of professional and construction services …

Choice Market – a forward-thinking convenience store concept – will be the first retailer to debut at Greystar’s Parq on Speer, Denver’s luxurious new 16-story mixed use community. Located in the city’s bustling Golden Triangle neighborhood at the corner of Speer Blvd. and Bannock St., the new community is situated …

According to public records, Denver-based Ubuntu Partners purchased 838 Park Avenue West and 2250 Champa St. in Arapahoe Square on Friday, for 5.5 million. The developer is planning to build one of Denver’s largest condo projects that will also aim for net-zero certification. Ubuntu Partners is a new development firm …

Modular builder Nashua Builders recently began construction on the first phase of Spring Creek Apartments, an affordable housing development being built in Gypsum, Colo., 25 miles west of Vail. Edwards-based Polar Star Development, doing business as Spring Creek Apartment LLC, is the developer and management company for the project. This first …

Brinkman Construction broke ground on their latest Colorado Springs project last week, a 12-building townhome-style apartment community. Springs at Foothill Farms, owned, developed and operated by Continental Properties, will include 264 two-story loft-style units. The 354,000-square-foot luxury community offers amenities such as a resort-style swimming pool, community clubhouse and a state-of-the-art fitness …

Denver-based developer Jordon Perlmutter & Company (JP&Co.) has officially announced its latest ground-up development, Paradigm River North. Located at 3400 Walnut in Denver’s energetically creative River North Art District, Paradigm River North will provide 192,000 square feet of creative office space, including 12,000 square feet of ground-floor retail. Current plans include an environmentally …

Urban Land Conservancy (ULC) is finalizing plans for a 58 home development that includes market-rate and affordable for-sale townhomes in a mixed-income community. To ensure permanent affordability, the land will be held in a 99-year community land trust in partnership with ULC’s affiliate, Elevation Community Land Trust (ECLT), ensuring the …

Today, at the annual Greenbuild conference in Atlanta, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) launched Insight, a new data-driven tool that highlights building project design features that can lead to better performance. Insight is available as a feature of the Arc platform and provides information on the design attributes of …

Corum Real Estate Group, a Denver-based developer and manager of industrial, multifamily and office assets, recently closed on the acquisition of two land sites in the Denver metro area and will construct a combined 400,000 square feet of speculative industrial warehouse space to be delivered in the fourth quarter of 2020. Gateway Central …