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COLORADO REAL ESTATE JOURNAL
— October 21-November 3, 2015
Greater Denver
by Jill Jamieson-Nichols
A trio of independent Sperry
Van Ness franchises in Denver,
Fort Collins and Chicago have
partnered to create Sperry Van
Ness/Denver Commercial to
expand the brand’s reach in the
metropolitan area and Colorado.
The partnership repositions the
Denver office to offer a broader
array of brokerage services
throughout themetro area, includ-
ing leasing and sales for all major
product types. It also expands the
reach of both the Denver and Fort
Collins offices, allowing for future
statewide geographical growth.
The relationship with the Chicago
office – the top-producing fran-
chise in the SVN network – pro-
vides a connection to capital and
investors from the Midwest.
Sperry Van Ness/Denver Com-
mercial has opened a downtown
Denver office at 710W. ColfaxAve.
and will maintain its Fort Collins
office, which opened in 2007.
“We are very excited to now
bring the Denver market a full
complement of real estate broker-
age services,” said Steve Kawulok,
oneof sixman-
aging directors
of the com-
bined firm.
“The partner-
ship creates
a
dynamic
teamof people
and a unique
collection of
r e s o u r c e s ,
including a
direct link to investment capital
in Chicago. Well established in the
midmarket investment market,
the platform and service delivery
that Sperry Van Ness/Denver will
offer is well suited for the private
ownership and private capital
markets,” he said.
SperryVanNess/Denver Com-
mercial will specialize in sales
and leasing of industrial, office,
multifamily, investment, retail
and land properties throughout
the greaterDenver region, includ-
ing Colorado Springs, Northern
Colorado and the Western Slope.
SVN plans to increase its team
of Denver-based brokers to 20
over the next year.
Managing directors, in addi-
tion to Kawulok, are Troy Meyer
and Kevin Matthews in Colora-
do, and Al Stepan, Michael Tha-
nasouras and Scott Maesel from
Chicago.
SVN said it is known for being
the only commercial brokerage
firm with an all-inclusive com-
pensated cooperation process
in which all competitive firms,
brokers and independent agents,
along with all SVN advisers, are
included in the marketing effort
and share 50 percent of the fees
on any given transaction.
“By utilizing the Sperry Van
Ness brand and our national net-
work firepower, the new team
will be well connected to brokers
who are very aware of local mar-
ket conditions and trends,” said
Kawulok. “We are an entrepre-
neurial company with a national
market platformwho proactively
cooperates with outside brokers.
This isn’t the norm for larger
national-branded firms.”
Sperry Van Ness has 190
offices nationwide with more
than 1,200 advisers and staff in
500 markets.
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Steve Kawulok
The remaining three buildings
are fully leased to Merrill Lynch,
BNYMellon and Charles Schwab,
among others.
Jugl said the transaction was
complicated by a loan assump-
tion, and Unico “performed flaw-
lessly.”
“This is a great opportunity
for Unico to reposition a Main &
Main asset with a 265-car parking
garage that provides 2.6:1,000,” he
said.
“We plan to bring our proven
investment expertise and value-
add approach, combinedwith our
premier leasing, property man-
agement, construction manage-
ment, leasing and sustainability
services to Second and Josephine,”
said Kane.
Unico Properties owns assets
throughout the Denver area
and has an additional 1.4 mil-
lion sf in Boulder.
“Ourgoal is to invest indesirable
properties in strong submarkets
through Denver and Boulder,”
said Kane. “We believe there are
a variety of desirable submarkets
as our acquisition activity demon-
strates. We are champions of this
metropolitan statistical area as a
whole and we are always looking
for newacquisition targets togrow
our portfolio in Colorado, particu-
larly on an off-market basis.”
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Unico
