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March 18-March 31, 2015 —
COLORADO REAL ESTATE JOURNAL
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Achievement 2014
Commercial Real Estate Industry
Retail Broker of the Year
FINALISTS:
Daniel M. Miller, CBRE Inc.
Jon Weisiger, CBRE Inc.
David Fried, DTZ
Susan Karsh, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank
Justin Kliewer, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank
WINNER:
Daniel M. Miller, CBRE Inc.
Brokerage Transaction of the Year
CoBank
Bill Byrne & Barry Dorfman
JLL
Industrial Development of the Year
Enterprise Business Center – Phase I
United Properties
Multifamily Development of the Year
Verve
Amstar
Office Development of the Year
IMA Inc. Headquarters
North Wing Office Building, Denver Union Station
Haselden Construction
AND
One Union Station
South Wing Office Building, Denver Union Station
East West Partners
Deal of the Year
Denver Union Station
Union Station Alliance
Capital Markets Transaction of the Year
Harvest Station
CBRE Capital Markets
Trailblazer of the Year
Celeste Tanner
Confluent Development Services LLC
President’s Award
For Community Leadership
Walter A. “Buz” Koelbel Jr.
Koelbel and Company
Award of Excellence
Lea Ann T. Fowler
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP
Member of the Year
Wade Warthen
Darling Milligan Smith & Lesch, PC
Developing Leader Member of the Year
Ian Nichols
Gart Properties LLC
James T. Brubaker Legislative Award
Senator Bill Cadman
AND
Senator Jessie Ulibarri
Ian Nichols of Gart Properties was
voted Developing Leader Member of
the Year. “Ian is a critical thinker and is
always looking for opportunities to help
the company expand and grow,” said
Josh Brgoch, Gart chief financial officer.
“He is never reticent to take the reins to
accomplish a task when it needs to be
done,” added Kathie Barstnar, NAIOP
Colorado executive director.
The Union Station Alliance walked away with the 2014 Deal of the Year Award for
its redevelopment of historic Denver Union Station. From left are Sherri Goldstein
of Land Title Guarantee Co. with alliance members Ferd Belz, Dana Crawford,
Jeff Hermanson, Joe Vostrejs and Pat McHenry. Also pictured is NAIOP Colorado
President Jeff Riggs.
Celeste Tanner of Confluent
Development Services LLC is
the Trailblazer of the Year
award recipient, presented
to NAIOP members 35 and
younger. Tanner has been
involved in more than 2.5 mil-
lion square feet of ground-up
development across all prod-
uct types in just over 10 years
in the industry.
Sen. Jessie Ulibarri, D-Denver,
accepts NAIOP Colorado’s
James. T. Brubaker Legislative
Award, in part for his efforts
to reform construction defects
statutes. Also receiving the
award was Sen. Bill Cadman,
R-Colorado Springs, who was
called a champion of free
enterprise, business develop-
ment and reducing red tape.
Wade Warthen of Darling
Milligan Smith & Lesch
accepts NAIOP Colorado’s
Member of the Year Award.
Warthen serves on NAIOP’s
Membership and Legislative
Affairs committees and is a
welcoming presence at chap-
ter events.
Walter A. “Buz” Koebel Jr. of
Koelbel and Co. addresses
the crowd after being selected
for the prestigious President’s
Award for Community
Leadership. In addition to devel-
oping projects including the
1,000-acre Rendezvous resort
in Winter Park and Industry
in River North, among others,
Koelbel is a “tireless advocate”
for Colorado, education and
“economic freedom.”
IMA’s headquarters and One Union Station shared honors for Office Development of the Year. Accepting the awards, with Land
Title’s Sherri Goldstein, are, from left, Chris Frampton of East West Partners, Rob Cohen of IMA and Ed Haselden of Haselden
Construction.
Tim Richey, left, and Mike Winn of
CBRE took the Investment Broker of the
Year title. The team completed 25 trans-
actions totaling $858 million in value,
close to half of the total office volume in
the Denver metro area.
The Land Brokers of the Year are Mike
Kboudi, left, and Jim Capecelatro of
DTZ. They were responsible for the sale
of more than 700 million square feet of
land in Colorado in 2014.
Verve, a 258-unit development in down-
town Denver owned by Amstar Group
and developed by Opus Development,
was the Multifamily Development of the
Year. Accepting the award from Amstar
Group are, from left, Jenny Skelton and
Kim Sperry.