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With the Dry Creek light-rail stop a
block away, Miller Global Properties
knew its Panorama Park parcel had
tremendous opportunity for develop-
ment. However, with the nation just starting to
recover from the recession, large corporate users
were still hesitant to invest in ground-up office
expansion.
Miller Global initially hired The Weitz Co. to
provide site development and construction for a
six-story, 223,500-gross-square-foot spec office (core
and shell) building with a two-level, 160,000-sf, 500-
car parking structure. Having completed 16 projects
together, the firms have a 20-year history of developing and con-
structing projects throughout the Denver metro area. Approxi-
mately six months into the development process, a full-building
tenant was identified, which altered the design and changed the
project into a build-to-suit. The original design of the building was
structural steel. During the preconstruction phase, Weitz proposed
changing the structure to precast concrete, resulting in a cost sav-
ings of approximately $2 million and creating a shortened schedule.
This build-to-suit office building is the newest addition to the
Arrow Electronics campus in Centennial. With 2016 sales of $23.8 bil-
lion, Arrow guides innovation forward for over 125,000 of the world’s
leading manufacturers of technology used in homes, business and
daily life. Through a network of more than 465 locations serving
over 90 countries, Arrow brings electronics and enterprise comput-
ing solutions to industrial and commercial markets, and specializes
in redeploying, remarketing and recycling technology equipment.
Arrow’s culture is very collaborative. Therefore, the third through
eighth floors are built on raised-access flooring and have collab-
orative workspaces, neighborhood cafés and centralized meeting
areas. In addition, the eighth floor features an open ceiling to the
deck. The second floor – the “amenity level” – includes a full-service
kitchen, dining facilities, fitness center, large training and confer-
encing facility. This eight-story, 260,000-sf Class A office building in-
cludes one level of below-grade parking and an attached, five-level,
390,000-sf parking structure for 1,216 cars.
During the construction, Weitz was tasked with finding a cost-ef-
fective and constructible solution for the 35-foot-tall foundation
wall on the north side of the parking structure. The challenge
stemmed from tight site logistics necessitating a shoring system of
soil nails and shotcrete to retain the soil along the property line par-
allel to Dry Creek Road. The 250-foot-long foundation wall for the
parking structure had to be installed only 4 inches from the shoring
Shad Cloeter
Project Ex-
ecutive, The
Weitz Co.