CREJ - Journal

January 21-February 3, 2015 —

COLORADO REAL ESTATE JOURNAL

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Gary Molinaro

joined broker-

age firm

API Sheldon-Gold

Realty Inc.

Molinaro specializes in full-

service commercial real estate

brokerage and consulting servic-

es to landlords, sellers, tenants

and buyers.

He has been in the commercial

real estate business for 20 years.

Prior to joining API Sheldon-

Gold, Molinaro worked with

his father’s business, which was

involved in apartment conver-

sions in the 1990s in central Den-

ver, converting 150 units a year

to condos. As well, Molinaro

managed his father’s portfolio of

strip centers, industrial buildings

and office space, working with

tenants in negotiations of leases,

and also was the developer and

project manager on multiple

projects.

Harrison Archer

joined

Cush-

man & Wakefield

as an associ-

ate broker.

Archer is an office property

specialist for the commercial real

estate services

firm focusing

on tenant rep-

resentation in

the southeast

suburban,

central busi-

ness district,

Cherry Creek,

Aurora and

Lakewood

submarkets.

He graduated from the Uni-

versity of Denver.

Katy Wilson

also joined the

firm as a marketing specialist.

Wilson

will focus

on market-

ing strategy

and graphic

design sup-

port for office

properties in

the Denver

metro area

with the

Stout/Brad-

ley leasing team. She earned her

bachelor’s degree from Doane

College-Lincoln Grand Island

and Master.

Stelio Elenis

and

Kristina

Kesselring

were promoted to

senior manager at certified pub-

lic accounting and advisory firm

BKD LLP.

Elenis has more than eight

years of experience providing

tax prepara-

tion, consult-

ing and plan-

ning services

to a variety of

clients. He is a

2005 graduate

of John Car-

roll Univer-

sity, Univer-

sity Heights,

Ohio, with

a Bachelor of Science degree in

accounting and finance; a 2006

graduate of the University of

Denver with a master’s degree

in taxation; and a 2010 graduate

of DU with a master’s in finance.

Kesselring has more than 16

years of public accounting expe-

rience. She

provides tax

preparation

and tax com-

pliance servic-

es to a variety

of clients.

Kesselring is a

1997 graduate

of Colorado

State Univer-

sity Pueblo

with a Bachelor of Science in

business administration with an

accounting emphasis.

Cory M. Rutz

joined

Otten

Johnson Robinson Neff +

Ragonetti PC

as an associate.

Rutz earned her Juris Doctor

from the University of Colorado

Law School.

She also

earned a mas-

ter’s degree

of urban and

regional plan-

ning from the

University

of Colorado

Denver in

addition to

her Bachelor

of Science degree in chemical

engineering from Tulane Uni-

versity.

She will be a member of both

the real estate and land use prac-

tice groups at the commercial

law firm.

Before starting law school, she

worked as a resin engineer for

a global supplier of paints, coat-

ings and other chemicals.

Joseph Larkin, CCIM, SIOR,

one of 16 industry professionals

to graduate from the CCIM Insti-

tute’s 2014 Jay W. Levine Leader-

ship Development Academy.

Larkin of First Realty Inc. has

more than 30 years of transac-

tion and industry experience

and has been practicing in the

investment and commercial real

estate industries since 1977. He

also is a senior instructor for the

CCIM Institute.

Jon D. Hendrickson

and

Aaron D. Johnson

joined the

Denver office of

Cushman &

Wakefield

as senior directors.

Collectively,

Hendrickson,

former vice

president of

investments

with Marcus

&Millichap

Institutional

Property

Advisors,

and John-

son, former

vice president of investments

for Etkin Johnson Real Estate

Partners, have brokered and/or

purchased more than $1 billion

in investment sales transactions

and will add more than 20 years

of local market industry experi-

ence to the firm’s Denver office.

The team will specialize in office,

retail and industrial properties.

Hendrickson has more than 10

years of experience in the region

and specializes in the sale of

quality, multitenant investments.

He graduated from the Universi-

ty of Iowa with bachelor degrees

in finance and marketing.

Johnson also has more than

10 years of

industry

experience.

He has expe-

rience in

acquisitions,

dispositions,

recapital-

izations,

financing

and develop-

ment along

the Front Range. He earned a

bachelor’s of administration in

finance as well as a real estate

certificate from the Leeds School

of Business at the University of

Colorado Boulder.

The Denver chapter of Com-

mercial Real Estate Women

elected

Courtney Ryan

as its

2015 president. Ryan is the direc-

tor of business development for

PCL Construction.

Stina Kyser,

general counsel

for Urban Villages Inc./Bio-

Logical Capital LLC, was elected

president-elect for 2015, to be

president 2016.

Jennifer Luce,

executive vice

president, FirstBank, was elected

chief financial officer.

Julie Gifford,

shareholder,

Otten Johnson Robinson Neff +

Ragonetti PC, was elected direc-

tor of membership.

Kim Duty,

senior vice presi-

dent, National Multifamily

Housing Council, was elected

director of community relations.

Amy (Beauchamp) Quinn,

project engineer, Rand Construc-

tion Corp., was elected as direc-

tor of foundation and profes-

sional education and

Beth John-

son,

attorney, Moye White LLP,

was elected as CREW network

scholarship selection committee

representative.

Fidelity National Title Co.

added

Angela Mallory

to its

Fort Collins

escrow team.

Mallory

began her

title and clos-

ing career in

2000 and has

handled a

wide variety

of real estate

transactions,

including

refinances, farm and ranch, new

construction, residential resales

and commercial.

Drew Hyde

was named

market manager and senior

vice president for

U.S. Bank’s

commercial real estate division

in Colorado.

Over the past five years, U.S.

Bank’s Colorado commercial

real estate office has grown

its loan portfolio to more than

$1.5 billion

through

establishing

new clients

and growing

its existing

relationships.

Recently

completed

projects

financed by

U.S. Bank

include 16M and the Renais-

sance Downtown Denver.

The group’s focus is on

construction, acquisition, reha-

bilitation, bridge and term

loans to developers, real estate

funds and private institutional

owners as well as revolving

credit facilities, construction

loans and project financing to

real estate investment trusts.

Hyde has 15 years of experi-

ence in commercial real estate

and finance and joined U.S.

Bank in 2002. He earned a

bachelor’s degree from Whit-

man College in Walla Walla,

Washington, and a Master of

Business Administration from

the University of Denver Dan-

iels College of Business.

Ralph Lowen

and

Scott

Becker

joined

Walker & Dun-

lop Inc.’s

Federal Housing

Administration finance group.

Lowen was named senior

vice president and Becker was

named vice president. The

pair will focus on originating

market-rate and affordable

multifamily loans in addition

to health care loans out of the

commercial real estate finance

company’s Denver office.

Prior to joining the firm,

Lowen served as principal

of FHA Loan Originations at

Prudential Mortgage Capital

Co. During his tenure there,

he originated and structured

a total of $600 million in FHA

loan volume for more than

10,000 multifamily units.

Becker previously served as

an account manager at Pru-

dential Huntoon Paige Associ-

ates LLC, where he managed

$724 million in FHA-insured

loan volume.

Who’s News High Fives!

For the seventh year in a

row, PCL Construction has

donated more than $1.1 mil-

lion to benefit the Mile High

United Way. In the two short

weeks of its annual Mile High

United Way campaign, 154

employees raised $554,850,

and PCL matched employee

contributions dollar for dol-

lar.

“Mile High United Way is

incredibly grateful and proud

of the partnership we have

with PCL Construction,” said

Christine Benero, president

and CEOof Mile HighUnited

Way, “They are setting the bar

for corporate social respon-

sibility in our city, and we

simply could not change lives

and transform communities

without their leadership.”

To encourage participa-

tion and awareness, PCL

hosted various fundraisers,

including a root-beer float

sale, wine-cork pull, cook-

ing competition, go-cart rac-

ing and bowling. Donations

made help Mile High United

Way support local programs

focused on school readiness,

youth success and adult self-

sufficiency.

“PCL

recognizes

the

extraordinary impact Mile

High United Way has on

the community in which it

works,” said Shaun Yancey,

PCLpresident and chief oper-

ating officer of U.S. Opera-

tions. “We are honored to

give back to an organization

that gives so much, and we

look forward to continuing

our strong relationship with

Mile High United Way.”

PCL Construction in Denver donates

more than $1 million to United Way

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 jjamieson@crej.com.

Submissions should be 200 words or less.

Harrison Archer

Cory M. Rutz

Jon D. Hendrickson

Aaron D. Johnson

Katy Wilson

Stelio Elenis

Kristina Kesselring

Angela Mallory

Drew Hyde