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COLORADO REAL ESTATE JOURNAL
— November 5-November 18, 2014
Kittie Hook
joined
Newmark
Grubb Knight Frank
as an
executive managing director at
the Denver office.
A 31-year veteran of Colorado
commercial
real estate,
Hook pro-
vides site
selection
services for
companies
looking at
entering the
Colorado
area as well
as for exist-
ing companies with expansion,
consolidation and real estate
analysis requirements. She also
provides brokerage services,
including sales, leasing, negotia-
tions, project analysis and coor-
dination. Over her career Hook
has closed transactions valued
at more than $200 million.
Before joining NGKF, Hook
was a senior vice president at
Cassidy Turley. She also was the
broker/owner of KLH Com-
mercial.
Additional experience
includes brokerage roles at
Prime Commercial and Moore
Commercial; economic devel-
opment positions at the Jef-
ferson Economic Council and
the Greater Denver Corp.; and
marketing positions at financial
institutions including Interstate
Lending Corp. and First Inter-
state Banks of Golden and Fort
Collins.
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Attorneys
Fred L. Otis, Jeff
Bedingfield
and
Jennifer Lynn
Peters
recently merged their
firms. The combined firm,
Otis
Bedingfield & Peters LLC,
will
be home to 10 attorneys and 10
support staff in the firm’s two
offices in Loveland and Greeley.
Otis, Bedingfield & Peters
LLC will be home to the fol-
lowing attorneys: Otis, mem-
ber; Bedingfield, member;
Peters, member;
Timothy P.
Brynteson,
member;
John A.
Kolanz,
member;
Michael D.
Stewart,
of counsel;
Timothy
R. Odil,
senior associate;
Chris-
tian J. Schulte,
senior associ-
ate;
Lee J. Morehead,
associ-
ate; and
Myles S. Johnson,
associate.
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Loren Bon-
trager
joined
Fuller Real
Estate
as a
broker.
Bontrager
most recently
was with Jav-
elin Solutions,
a real estate
consulting
firm special-
izing in franchise site selection
throughout the United States.
In addition to site selection
services, he also provided lease
review and renewal support
for a number of retail and office
concepts.
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Sam Noblett
was hired as
marketing coordinator for
Brinkman Partners,
while
Kate Baker
was promoted
to director of marketing and
communications for the firm.
Noblett has three years’
experience with specific
knowledge
in real estate
and journal-
ism. He will
be respon-
sible for
executing the
firm’s day-
to-day mar-
keting activi-
ties while
focusing on
creative design and visual exe-
cution. Noblett is a graduate
of Colorado State University
with a Bachelor of Liberal Arts
and a minor in media studies.
Baker will be responsible for
overseeing Brinkman’s exter-
nal and internal communica-
tions while
advancing
the strategic
marketing
objectives of
the company.
Baker has
been with
Brinkman
for 3½ years
and has
more than a
decade of experience in cor-
porate marketing and media
management. She has a Master
of Science in advertising man-
agement from the University
of Denver and a Bachelor of
Art in communication with a
history minor from Colorado
State University.
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David Smith
joined
Tram-
mell Crow Co.’s
Denver busi-
ness unit as a senior associate.
In this role, Smith will sup-
port the leadership team in
managing all
aspects of the
development
process,
including
sourcing new
development
projects,
securing debt
and equity,
maintaining
client rela-
tionships and helping to man-
age the zoning, permitting,
planning, financing, construc-
tion and sales processes.
Previously, Smith served as
an associate with CityInterests,
a mixed-used real estate devel-
oper and investor in Wash-
ington, D.C., where he helped
secure more than $200 million
in acquisitions, dispositions,
financings and joint venture
investments, and managed a
portfolio of real estate invest-
ments with more than $250
million in assets.
Prior to CityInterests, he
started his career at real
estate private equity firm
CIM Group and with Wells
Fargo’s Real Estate Group,
both in Washington, D.C. He
has experience in residen-
tial, office, retail, hospitality,
mixed-use and land properties
types with a focus on transit-
oriented development.
Smith holds a Juris Doctor-
ate and a Master of Business
Administration from North-
western University School of
Law and Kellogg School of
Management. He earned a
bachelor degree in business
administration from the Uni-
versity of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler
Business School.
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Alex Lagerborg
joined
Sunflower Bank
as a wealth
management adviser serving
the Denver
and North-
ern Colorado
regions. He
is a Certified
Long Term
Care Consul-
tant and has
a broad base
of experi-
ence in real
estate, finan-
cial services and commercial
construction industries. Most
recently, he was a financial
representative of Northwest-
ern Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Lagerborg earned a bach-
elor’s degree in business
administration with an
emphasis in economics from
Colorado College as well as
graduate work at Southeast
Missouri University.
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Lisa Czelatdko
joined
Quan-
tum Commercial Group
as
a licensed broker associate
specializing
in medical
office, and
office sales
and leasing.
Czelat-
dko has a
Bachelor of
Science from
St. Xavier
University
and a Master
of Science from Eastern Illi-
nois University. She also for-
merly served on the Colorado
Springs City Council.
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The Colorado Chapter of the
Society of Industrial and Office
Realtors raised $26,000 for
Children’s Hospital Colorado
through its annual golf tourna-
ment at The Ridge at Castle
Pines.
Contributors included Etkin
Johnson Real Estate Partners,
Majestic RealtyCo., and numer-
ous Denver area developers,
SIORmembers and commercial
real estate-related businesses.
SIOR Colorado Chapter Pres-
ident Steve Stansfield of Realtec
Commercial Real Estate Servic-
es and Bill Thompson of CBRE,
co-chairman of the event,
recently presented a check to
Lindsey Linden of Children’s
Hospital.
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Avison Young’s Denver
office volunteered with Hab-
itat for Humanity of Metro
Denver as part of the com-
pany’s Global Day of Giving.
Employees inAvison Young’s
60 offices in the U.S., Canada
and Europe dedicated Oct. 9 to
participate in volunteer projects
as part of the company’s Global
Citizenship efforts. Each office
selected its own community
volunteer project.
“While Avison Young offices
already contribute to many
charitable
organizations
throughout the year, setting
aside a day for all 1,600 pro-
fessionals to volunteer their
time will broaden and greatly
strengthen our philanthropic
efforts as a company,” said
Mark Rose, Avison Young
chair and CEO.
“By holding the Global Day
of Giving this year and in
the future, we will be able to
give back to our communi-
ties in small ways that will
collectively make a big dif-
ference. Furthermore, as we
continually endeavor to meet
our own and our clients’ goals
and challenges, we hope that
the Global Day of Giving will
increase awareness of these
community projects, which
strive to help people in need
and at risk.”
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Catamount Constructors
raised $25,890 for Brent’s
Place at its second annual
golf tournament recently at
Hiwan Golf Club in Ever-
green.
Brent’s Place is a Denver-
based nonprofit that provides
safe and clean housing and
support programs for fami-
lies and their children whose
immune systems have been
compromised by bone mar-
row transplants and other
aggressive oncology treat-
ments. The money raised will
provide more than 278 nights
of lodging for families.
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SIOR donates $26,000 to Children’s Hospital Colorado
Avison Young’s Denver office helps Habitat for Humanity
Catamount Constructors raises $25,890 for Brent’s Place
High Fives! recognizes good deeds and accomplishments by companies and individuals in
the Colorado commercial real estate industry. Please share your good news and photos with
us by emailing
Submissions should be 200 words or less.
Kittie Hook
Loren Bontrager
Sam Noblett
Kate Baker
David Smith
Alex Lagerborg
Lisa Czeltatdko
