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COLORADO REAL ESTATE JOURNAL

— February 18-March 3, 2015

Who’s News

Law firm

Ryley Carlock &

Applewhite

announced the

recent election of four associ-

ates and two of counsel attor-

neys to shareholders, including

Mark H. Boscoe

and

Sheela S.

Stack

of the Denver office.

Boscoe is a member of the

firm’s corporate practice group.

In his real estate practice,

Boscoe helps clients with real

estate acquisition, development

and finance, tax increment

finance, entity formation, and

general transactional and cor-

porate representation. In his tax

and estate planning practice,

he assists individual clients

and families with estate and

charitable planning matters,

including preparation of wills,

trusts, gift planning and family

business matters.

Stack is a member of the

firm’s water, energy, resources

and environmental law prac-

tice group. She focuses her

practice on water rights adju-

dications and water planning,

water quality permitting and

environmental compliance.

She represents municipalities,

special districts, mining com-

panies, developers, trade asso-

ciations and a variety of other

businesses regulated by the

government.

Morgan Cullen

was named

executive director of

Acceler-

ate Colorado,

a partnership

between business and local

governments that works with

the U.S. Congress and key

federal leadership on issues

critical to Colorado’s economic

development, top industries

and business community.

Cullen, who previously was

senior policy specialist for the

National Conference of State

Legislatures and senior policy

adviser for former Colorado

Gov. Bill Owens, will be in

charge of developing and

implementing Accelerate Colo-

rado’s federal policy platform,

retaining and expanding the

organization’s membership

base, and managing the annual

business mission to Washing-

ton, D.C., among other activi-

ties.

Prior to joining Accelerate

Colorado, Cullen oversaw elec-

tions, campaign finance, leg-

islative redistricting and man-

agement issues in the areas of

security, legislator compensa-

tion and legislator demograph-

ics for the NCSL. Additionally,

he was the key member of

Owens’ policy team, develop-

ing, implementing and admin-

istering policy issues.

Cullen has a master’s degree

in politics and public policy

from the University of Colo-

rado Denver and a Bachelor of

Arts in political science with a

minor in history from Western

State Colorado University.

Attorney

Michelle R.

Magruder

has been named a

director of law firm

Fairfield

and Woods

PC.

Magruder has extensive

trial and hearing experience,

and focuses her practice in the

areas of employment law, gen-

eral liability, contracts and risk

management.

She is a graduate of the Uni-

versity of Denver Sturm Col-

lege of Law and University of

Nebraska-Lincoln.

Beth Mankamyer

joined

Alderman Bernstein,

a Denver

law firm specializing in emi-

nent domain law, real estate-

related litigation and real estate

transactional

work.

She comes

to the firm

with more

than five

years of

real estate

transactional

experience,

providing

representa-

tion in sales and acquisitions,

lending transactions, leasing

and property management, as

well as experience in public

trustee foreclosures, entity

formations and landlord-

tenant disputes. Mankamyer

is a graduate of the Univer-

sity of Colorado Law School

and Western Washington

University.

J. David Arkell

joined law

firm

Moye White LLP

as a

partner.

He will be a member of the

firm’s construction group as

well as its

recently

formed alter-

native dis-

pute resolu-

tion group.

Formerly a

partner with

Faegre Baker

Daniels,

Arkell has

been practic-

ing construction law for more

than 35 years.

Arkell advises owners,

general contractors, subcon-

tractors, suppliers and sure-

ties on planning and dispute

avoidance, as well as dispute

resolution through negotia-

tion, mediation, arbitration and

litigation. He drafts and nego-

tiates construction contracts

and other documents for both

private and public construction

projects. Arkell also arbitrates

and mediates construction

disputes.

Rick Firmine

and

Christo-

pher Auxier

joined

Fifteen

Group,

which opened a Den-

ver office.

The Denver office will serve

as the diversified real estate

investment firm’s platform for

opportunistic real estate invest-

ment in the Mountain West

region and represents its first-

ever investment office outside

of Miami and Los Angeles.

Firmine is a principal and

will be overseeing Fifteen

Group’s

acquisition

and develop-

ment efforts

in the Moun-

tain West

region. Prior

to joining the

company,

Firmine

spent over

a decade as

the owner of a Las Vegas-based

development and advisory

firm. He was the principal

developer of over $150 million

in ground-up developments

and adviser and manager on

more than $1 billion in acquisi-

tions and repositions.

Auxier is a senior vice presi-

dent, also focusing on acquisi-

tions and development for the

Mountain West region. Most

recently, Auxier was director

of development for the Adams

County Housing Author-

ity, where

he managed

all activities

relating to

multifamily

development,

finance and

transactions,

including

rehabilita-

tion of new

acquisitions

and new construction projects

using Low Income Housing

Tax Credits and tax-exempt

bonds in partnership with local

governments.

Timothy R. Odil

of Otis

Bedingfield & Peters LLC was

named one of

Colorado’s Law-

yers of the Year

by Law Week

Colorado.

Odil is a member of the

firm’s litigation team and his

practice focuses on disputes

among pri-

vate parties

as well as

disputes with

local, state

or federal

government

agencies.

He handles

complex

commercial

litigation

and appeals, government and

commercial contract negotia-

tion and disputes, regulatory

compliance, licensing and

rulemaking issues, as well as

employment law matters.

McWhinney

recently added

four new associates to its

development and finance busi-

ness units.

Brad O’Neil

joined the

firm, which develops master-

planned communities and

vertical commercial and

mixed-use projects, as senior

vice president-capital markets,

Ashley Stiles

as vice president

of development-Northern

Colorado,

Kyle Ramstetter

director of development and

Shawn Dressel

as developer.

O’Neil will guide the firm’s

sustained financial growth. In

this role, he focuses on capital

market, banking and financing

relationships

to support

all business

interests.

Prior to join-

ing McWhin-

ney, O’Neil

served as

director of

finance at

Amstar for

nearly 14

years, overseeing the compa-

ny’s banking relationships and

closing a variety of debt trans-

actions totaling $2 billion. He

also served as vice president

for Wells Fargo Bank, sourcing

and closing more than $1 bil-

lion in loan volume during his

11-year tenure.

Stiles will oversee new

development projects in the

Northern Colorado market.

This will include sourcing and

vetting these projects from

procurement

through

completion.

She joined

McWhinney

from The

Broe Group,

where she

served as

director of

develop-

ment. Stiles

also worked with organiza-

tions including Roche Con-

structors and Terracare Associ-

ates.

Ramstetter will work with

Chief Development Officer

Trae Rigby

sourcing

opportu-

nities for

McWhinney

within Colo-

rado and on

a national

scale. These

projects

range in size

and product

type. Prior to McWhinney,

Ramstetter worked as a broker

for office tenant leasing as well

as office redevelopment sourc-

ing.

Dressel fields development

opportunities in all commer-

cial niches, primarily focusing

on the Denver metro area and

with McWhinney leadership

to determine opportunity

feasibility. She has worked at

other Den-

ver area real

estate firms,

including

St. Charles

Town Co.

and Continu-

um Partners,

in develop-

ment roles,

managing

more than 3

million square feet of Denver

metro real estate.

Joe Sigdestad

joined

Avison

Young

as principal.

Based in the firm’s Denver

office, he will focus on local

and national tenant repre-

sentation. With 23 years of

commercial

real estate

experience in

the Denver

metropolitan

market, Sig-

destad was

most recently

with DTZ,

formerly

Cassidy Tur-

ley, where he

served as a senior vice presi-

dent.

Over his career, Sigdestad

has handled more than 7.4

million square feet of office

transactions totaling more

than $687 million in consid-

eration, and represented and

advised both local and nation-

al tenants on lease relocations,

expansions and renewals.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts

in economics from the Univer-

sity of Colorado.

Avison Young is a Toronto,

Canada-based commercial real

estate services firm.

Henry “Hank” Cox

recently

joined

CBRE’s

Denver office

as an executive vice president,

specializing in tenant rep-

resentation for corporations

with footprints in Colorado,

throughout

the U.S. and

abroad.

Most

recently,

Cox worked

for the real

estate ser-

vices and

investment

firm in the

Chicago

office on the global corporate

services team. He relocated

to Colorado to join the firm’s

Denver occupier and tenant

advisory team and to partner

with his son, Hadley Cox.

Together, they will provide

specialized tenant rep services

throughout central Denver

with an emphasis on finan-

cial services and technology

companies.

Beth Mankamyer

Rick Firmine

Christopher Auxier

Brad O'Neil

Joe Sigdestad

Henry “Hank” Cox

Ashley Stiles

Kyle Ramstetter

Shawn Dressel

J. David Arkell

Timothy R. Odil

and is preparing for two restau-

rants to open.

Liberty Tax Service recently

opened a store at Northfield. Lib-

erty Tax Service is a tax prepara-

tion and filing service whose goal

is to provide the feeling of a per-

sonal tax consultant alongside the

security, confidence andprotection

that a large company can provide.

Also, Texas Roadhouse and

Brothers Bar and Grill are sched-

uled to open in 2015.

Texas Roadhouse is a family

steak restaurant boasting hand-cut

steaks, and a teamwith pride and

a passion for creating legendary

experiences.

Texas Roadhouse is scheduled

to open this spring.

The other restaurant joining

Northfield is Brothers Bar and

Grill. Brothers Bar and Grill is a

sports-themed restaurant with a

full scratch kitchen, and an ulti-

mate mission to provide a com-

prehensive entertainment venue

with an emphasis on fun, safety

and cleanliness.

BrothersBar andGrill is slated to

open this summer.

The Shops at Northfield Staple-

ton are located at 8340 Northfield

Blvd in Denver.

FlatIron Crossing announces

two new retailers

Two new retailers will be open-

ing stores at FlatIronCrossing this

spring.

TheArt of Shavingwill open an

800-square-foot store. The Art of

Shaving describes itself as a mas-

culine establishment set up to pro-

vide men with the finest shaving

products and accessories. In addi-

tion, The Art of Shaving includes

a barber spa, which offers haircuts

and straight-razor shaves.

Vera Bradley also will open a

store at FlatIron Crossing. The

national retailer is known for its

quilted cotton luggage, hand-

bags and backpacks with colorful

designs. Vera Bradley will be a

2,200-sf store.

FlatIron Crossing is located at

1 W. Flatiron Crossing Drive in

Broomfield.

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