
Mile High Trendy Office: TARRA 9+CO Campus
TARRA, a new flexible office and membership workspace designed to transform the way women connect business, life and community, is located within Continuum Partners’ 9+CO development, a 26-acre urban infill project on the former University of Colorado Health Sciences Center site in Denver. TARRA’s 11,500-square-foot space, which opened in June 2022, delivers a …

Q&A with Aimee LaLone, Principal of Wold Architects and Engineers
Aimee LaLone, AIA, LEED AP, BD+C, serves as a principal and founding member of the Colorado Office of Wold Architects and Engineers, a full-service planning, architecture and engineering firm in Denver, and one of the top 10 architecture and engineering firms in the state. In 2009, after only five years at Wold’s …

Creating Affordable Housing for Denver Families in Creative Ways
By Keo Frazier Soaring windows and high ceilings. Halls lined with vintage lockers. EV chargers free for residents’ use. An orchard and grape arbor with fruit free for the picking. These are just some of the amenities at Pancratia Hall Lofts, a new family-friendly affordable housing complex in the nearly …

How to Assess a Commercial Solar Proposal
By Rachel Mountain You’ve researched solar and found that it can be a great financial investment for commercial property owners. Of course, you now want to know how solar could benefit your specific property, so the next step is requesting a proposal from a reputable company. Every solar proposal comes with a …

Dine and Recline: Clayton Hotel and Members Club
By Katie Rapone, editor Each month, Mile High CRE will highlight a new place to “dine or recline” in the Centennial State. December’s feature is Clayton Hotel and Members Club in Cherry Creek North. Since its debut in May of 2021, the first-of-its-kind, 63-room boutique hotel property has been honored …

Apprenticeship Opportunities Create Sustainable Talent Pipelines
By Kelsey Glass Due to “The Great Resignation,” companies in several industries specific to commercial development have had to seek different and less-thought-of sources for recruiting and hiring talent than what has traditionally worked in the past. Gone are the days of posting a job on a recruitment website or association job board and garnering …

People and Projects to Know: Carla Ferreira, Principal at The Aurora Highlands
When ground breaks on a new project within The Aurora Highlands’ master-planned community, chances are you’ll see a smartly dressed woman shoveling a big scoop of dirt from the land, smiling brightly at the cameras, all while wearing heeled boots and a neon pink construction hat. That’s Carla Ferreira, and …

Bridging the Gap: How C-PACE Can Be Accretive for Developers in the Current Economy
By Joel Poppert, managing director, Imperial Ridge Real Estate Capital Inflation is currently at 7.7 percent annually (October to October), placing the U.S. uncomfortably close to being in a “hyper-inflation” scenario, which would put us in the territory we are accustomed to seeing in developing nations — not in the …

Mile High Trendy Office: Rowland + Broughton’s Denver Studio in LoDo
Continuing the evolution of Rowland + Broughton‘s (R+B) Denver studio, which opened in 2004 in the 1892 E.B. Millar Coffee Company building in Denver’s Lower Downtown Historic District, the architecture and interior design firm recently re-imagined an existing upper level as a multi-purpose salon-style space. In addition to building on …

Top 5 Reasons Your Business Will Benefit From Solar
By Rachel Mountain Namaste Solar has seen businesses from all different industries and verticals invest in on-site solar. We designed and constructed 4.2 MW of solar across 20 sites for Colorado State University. We worked with Jax Ranch & Home to design and install a system that will offset 100% of their …