Following up on an earlier post, several of the transitions affecting Denver were evident yesterday in the presentations at the University of Colorado Real Estate Center 19th Annual Forum.
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Chris Toll
Denver Real Estate is in Transition
Denver is in transition in many ways. The oil and gas business recently buoyed Denver’s commercial real estate and employment market, but now is receding. The high tech and health care fields may be filling that void. Foreign investment has found Denver as a market that may increase returns over coastal markets.
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Recent Leases Indicate Diversified Economy in Downtown Denver
After a period of strong leasing activity by oil and gas firms in downtown Denver, the falling price of oil may have raised concerns that the office market would be negatively affected. However, two recent office leases support the conclusion…
Traffic on I-70 West of Denver: Only Incremental Changes, But They May Help
Colorado Department of Transportation (“CDOT”) Executive Director Don Hunt was recently interviewed on Colorado Public Radio’s Colorado Matters by Ryan Warner. Hunt discussed the latest plans for the I-70 corridor west of Denver. Convenient travel to the mountains is a major benefit to living in the Front Range, but as traffic worsens, the value of…
Section Line Roads: Is There Statutory Authority for Them?
In order to facilitate the settlement of the western United States in the nineteenth century, the federal government broke the land up into “townships” that were generally 36-square mile blocks. Each township was then broken into “sections” of roughly one square mile, or 640 acres. Each section was further divided into “quarter sections,” and further…