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SEPTEMBER 2017 \ BUILDING DIALOGUE \

t the junction of Interstates 70 and 25,

Crossroads Commerce Park looks to be

a pioneer in driving the development of

the northern Denver industrial real es-

tate market. Six of the 10 buildings planned for the

1 million-square-foot industrial park have been com-

pleted, with a seventh nearly ready to begin construc-

tion. The development offers a mix of speculative and

build-to-suit options, with building sizes ranging from

17,000 to 376,000 sf with cross-dock, front-park/front-

load and front-park/rear-load designs. A project over 10

years in the making, Crossroads Commerce Park marks a

significant achievement in the effort to redevelop Den-

ver’s Globeville neighborhood by reclaiming a former

brownfield site once heavily polluted by the smelting industry.

Home of the ASARCO smelter for over 120 years, the site sat untouched

until 2011, when site remediation began to address both soils and water,

including ground water monitoring.

We also designed brand new infrastructure including roadways and

utilities to prepare the site for the new development.

The process required extensive coordination with several agencies and

organizations, including the Environmental Protection Agency, Colorado

Department of Public Health and Environment, Colorado Department

of Transportation, Adams County, the city and county of Denver, and the

Elyria-Swansea-Globeville Neighborhood Association.

Trammell Crow Co. purchased the site with the plans to develop the

Class A industrial park.

“The location of the site offered a rare opportunity for an infill devel-

opment of this magnitude, just minutes fromdowntown Denver,” said to

Ann Sperling, senior director with Trammell Crow Co. Principal Global

Investors is an investment partner with TCC on Crossroads.

With site remediation completed by the land seller, the team worked

to bring the rest of the project to life. Design firm Ware Malcomb was

hired to provide master planning and architectural design services for

the project, bringing significant industrial project experience in the Den-

ver area. Jansen Strawnwas retained to provide civil engineering services

including infrastructure design for the entire park, along with entitle-

ment and development plan processing for the specific buildings on the

Adams County and Denver portions of the property.

“The site presented us with numerous challenges,” said Matt Chaiken,

principal of the Ware Malcomb’s Denver office. “The site spanned two

counties, had significant grade changes, and required completely new

utilities, roads, traffic signals and sidewalks.” Above the site, he added,

“High transmission power lines limited the height and placement of the

buildings.” The improvements added considerable public improvements

to the neighborhood, including new circulation and landscaping in an

area that had been fenced and an eyesore for years.

Additional considerations included utilities coordination with mul-

tiple agencies and designing infrastructure for a variety of industrial

building types over a 58.5-net-acre site.

Crossroads Commerce Park

Chris Strawn

Principal,

Ware

Malcomb

Newmark Knight Frank