December 16, 2015-January 5, 2016 —
COLORADO REAL ESTATE JOURNAL
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Forecast Summit Jan. 21.
Held at the Inverness Hotel &
ConferenceCenter, 200 Inverness
Drive West, Englewood, the
event will include retail, indus-
trial, office, medical office, mul-
tifamily and land forecast pan-
els in addition to an economic
update by Patty Silverstein of
Development Research Partners.
CREJ also will host its 13th
annual Property Management
Conference and Expo Feb. 18 at
the Inverness Hotel & Confer-
n
NAIOP Colorado
will host
its Annual Economic Forecast
Breakfast Jan. 13 at the Den-
ver Marriott City Center at 1701
California St.
NAIOP Colorado, with the
Colorado Apartment Associa-
tion and the International Coun-
cil of Shopping Centers, also is
hosting the Commercial Real
Estate and Multifamily Housing
Day at the Capitol Feb. 24.
Additionally, NAIOP Colora-
do will host its annual Awards
of Achievement Feb. 25 at the
Seawell Grand Ballroom at the
Denver Center for the Perform-
ing Arts.
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PLSC – Professional Land
Surveyors of Colorado
will
host its Rocky Mountain
Asphalt Conference & Equip-
ment Show Feb. 24 from 8 a.m.
to 7 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza
DIA at 15500 E. 40th Ave. in
Aurora.
PLSC also will host its sixth
annual Rocky Mountain Sur-
veyors Summit March 2-4 at
the Arvada Center. The event
combines all of the Front Range
conferences – Central Colorado
Professional Surveyors, North-
ern Chapter-PLSC and South-
ern Chapter Professional Land
Surveyors – into one event.
the space for a Christmas party
or a birthday or a book club, it
can be yours.
The store on Alameda has
room for 47 and the most recent
store to open, a 15,000-sf Natu-
ral Grocers at Tennyson Street
and West 38th Avenue in Berke-
ley, can seat 52.
The store replaces the Elitch
Lanes bowling alley, one of the
last family-operated bowling
alleys in Denver. The bowl-
ing alley had operated at that
site for more than six decades,
before it was sold.
Jones said the community
rooms fit well within Natural
Grocer’s mission to support
healthy and sustainable life-
styles.
The concept has been well
received by shoppers.
“They love it,” Jones said.
“It really gives the commu-
nity a sense that that this is their
space,” he said.
“Natural Grocers is more than
a store; it is a gathering place
for neighbors, whether they
are attending a free nutritional
seminar that we are offering or
space they have reserved with
us. We have really gotten great
feedback on them.”
He wasn’t exactly sure when
Natural Grocers decided to
make the community rooms
part of every new store.
“I know when we opened a
store in Wheat Ridge last May,
we included a community room
and it was a big hit,” Jones said.
Nationally, there are 106 Nat-
ural Grocers in 18 states, 36 of
which are in Colorado.
It is evaluating the older
stores to see if they should be
replaced or renovated.
“That is a decision we make on
a store by store basis,” Jones said.
The Aurora store, which
opened Dec. 10 at 3440 S. Tower
Road, like the east Denver store,
replaces an existing store.
The new store is about 3,000
sf larger than the original one,
which, among other things,
allowed Natural Grocers to add
a community room.
The Berkeley store is minutes
from a Sprouts Farmers Mar-
ket.
“It doesn’t bother us at all,”
Jones said.
“Our stores only sell organic
produce and we took a stance
a long time ago not to sell any
product with artificial colors,
artificial sweeteners or preser-
vatives,” Jones said.
“And, of course, we have a
community room.”
Other News
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NRN Investments LLC
paid
$1.17 million for 8,378 square
feet of retail space to
The Oth-
ers LLC
for the Flesher-Hinton
Music store building at 3936
Tennyson St. in Denver.
Mike
Carnes
and
John Sheflin
of
Sperry Van Ness
represented
the buyer in the transaction and
Rodney Gustafson
of
Case
Commercial Brokers
was the
listing broker.
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Retail
The Denver Brass, a local non-
profit music organization, serv-
ing as the marketing and public
relations director.
“We are thrilled to have Kim
join EDCC. Kim brings a wealth
of experience that will allow
EDCC to move to the next level,”
said Kelly Flenniken, incoming
chair for the EDCC.
Woodworth brings 10 years of
experience in budget manage-
ment, meeting and event coor-
dination, and database manage-
ment. She earned a bachelor’s
degree in visual arts with an
emphasis in graphic design from
University of Northern Colora-
do.
“I am excited to have the
opportunity to work with Colo-
rado’s economic development
community. Colorado is not only
a unique place to do business.
We have a spirit of collaboration
which fosters a sense of commu-
nity, innovative thinking and last-
ing relationships,” Woodworth
said. “EDCC’s core mission is to
do just that. I am proud to be a
part of this organization.”
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EDCC
‘Natural Grocers is
more than a store; it is
a gathering place for
neighbors, whether
they are attending a free
nutritional seminar that
we are offering or space
they have reserved
with us. We have really
gotten great feedback
on them.’
– Jeremy Jones, Natural Grocers
by Vitamin Cottage
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