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COLORADO REAL ESTATE JOURNAL
— July 15-August 4, 2015
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cial and residential clients across
six states and in four countries.
She is a graduate of the Art
Institute of Houston.
Luedke comes to the firm
from the manufacturer side,
having spent
the past nine
years with
Trendway
Corp., a
manufacturer
of architec-
tural walls
and office
furniture.
There, she
was the tech-
nical expert for product speci-
fications and installations, and
was responsible for driving
dealership sales. As a market
manager, she grew sales by 152
percent. Luedke is a graduate
of Minnesota State University.
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Robert “Chip” Leadbetter
has rejoined
CTL|Thompson,
a full-service geotechnical,
structural, environmental and
materials engineering firm, to
oversee is Helical Pier Lab, one
of the few facilities in the world
accredited to test helical foun-
dations as required by the Inter-
national Accreditation Services.
Leadbetter has served as a geo-
technical engineer and expert for
more than 20 years, including six
years as Northern Colorado divi-
sion manager for CTL. He was
most recently senior geotechnical
engineer with Interralogic Inc.,
where he managed geotechnical
explorations, performed stability
analyses, and designed founda-
tions and geoliners for newmin-
ing facilities, mining expansions
and reclamation of complete
mines.
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Tim Barr, CPSM,
was named
the new director of marketing
and business development for
MOA Architecture.
Barr has 18 years of experi-
ence in marketing in the AEC
industry. His responsibilities at
the architecture firm include the
development of client relation-
ships, the
internal mar-
keting process
and strategic
positioning of
MOA.
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Heather
Van Swaay,
Austin Pul-
ford
and
Mark Hage-
man
joined
Davis Partnership
Architects
as architect interns.
In this role they assist in the
development
of design and
construction
documents
for commer-
cial office,
multifamily,
health care
and higher
education
projects for
the architec-
ture firm.
Van Swaay graduated from the
University of Colorado Denver
with her master’s in architec-
ture. She has her undergradu-
ate degree fromOregon State
University, where she received
a Bachelor of Science in hous-
ing studies and graduated Cum
Laude. She will be working with
the Davis Partnership health care
studio.
Pulford has an undergradu-
ate degree in architecture from
University of NewMexico and a
master’s degree fromUniversity
of Colorado
Denver. As
an architect
intern, Pul-
ford will
be working
with the
commercial/
multifamily
practice group
and brings
experience
in affordable and low-income
housing projects from prior work
experience. Pulford will be work-
ing on the on 17W development.
Hageman earned a master’s
degree from the University of
Kansas and a Master of Arts in
architecture
from the
Univesitat
Stuttgart.
He will be
working with
the health
care practice
group.
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Erik
Schmidt
joined
Catamount Constructors
Inc.
as project engineer.
He recently graduated from
the University
of Northern
Iowa with a
Bachelor of
Science in
construction
management.
Schmidt
will start his
career at the
general con-
tracting firm
as the project engineer on a Les
Schwab Tire Center in Colorado
Springs and Tractor Supply Co.
in Fort Collins.
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Beth Luedke
Tim Barr
Heather Van Swaay
Austin Pulford
Mark Hageman
Erik Schmidt
and further enhance the financial
district’s reputation as a premier
destination to work.”
Carner said the location is
appealing to oil and gas compa-
nies that want to be in proxim-
ity to other energy firms. It also
appeals to tenants that don’t want
to be in Lower Downtown “or
tenants that seek high-quality, effi-
cient office space but who are not
willing to pay the rents associated
with new construction in LoDo.”
Unico Properties will build
out suites for tenants looking for
move-in-ready space, as it typi-
cally does with its assets.
“We had a great deal of inter-
est with the property – everyone
from condo converters to multi-
family-type opportunities to tra-
ditional office ownership groups,”
said Riki Hashimoto of Newmark
Grubb Knight Frank, who repre-
sented the seller with Dan Groot-
ers of NGKF.
One of the first skyscrapers built
in downtown Denver, “It’s one of
the iconic buildings in downtown
Denver’s history. It’s going to be
interesting and certainly notewor-
thy to watch what Unico does
with this building,” Hashimoto
said.
The Denver Club originally had
a mansion on the property that
was demolished to make way for
the new building in 1954.
“The financial heart of down-
town Denver offers an ideal
opportunity to grow and expand
our portfolio,” said Austin Kane,
vice president and regional direc-
tor of Unico Properties’ Denver
portfolio. “We continue to seek
office acquisitions, as we did with
the Denver Club and with 1660
Lincoln a couple of years ago, to
continue to increase our presence
in the Denver market and to repo-
sition and raise the profile of some
key assets.”
With the acquisition, Unico
Properties owns more than 2 mil-
lion sf of office properties in Den-
ver, including Writer Square, 17th
and Larimer in LoDo, the Root
and Zang buildings in the Central PlatteValley, and others. It also has 1.4 million sf in Boulder.
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The Denver Club Building was one of downtown Denver’s first skyscrapers.
