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COLORADO REAL ESTATE JOURNAL
— March 2-March 15, 2016
Brian Dietz, LEED AP,
joined
Opus Development Company
LLC
as senior manager, real
estate development.
He has 12 years of real estate
experience,
including
asset and
portfolio
management,
commercial
development
and pri-
vate equity
investment
management.
Dietz holds
a Master of Business Admin-
istration in real estate finance
and construction management
from the University of Den-
ver and a Bachelor of Science
in studio art from Skidmore
College.
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Fred L. Otis,
an attorney
with
Otis Bedingfield &
Peters LLC,
was recog-
nized by
Martindale-
Hubbell for
showing
dedication,
leadership
and excel-
lence in real
estate law
and for hold-
ing an AV Preeminent Rating
for more than 15 years.
Otis currently is a managing
member of the firm, where he
routinely represents clients in
all types of real estate transac-
tions and is regularly respon-
sible for handling commercial
real estate and business trans-
actions.
Over his more than 40 years
of practice as a real estate
lawyer in Greeley, he also has
served as a municipal court
judge for the city of Gree-
ley, taught real estate law at
Aims Community College,
and prior to entering private
practice, he was a special
agent for the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.
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Matt Huelskamp
was pro-
moted to executive vice presi-
dent for
Hyder Construction.
In this expanded role, Huel-
skamp will
add talent
manage-
ment and
key strategic
planning
initiatives to
his business
development
responsibili-
ties.
He
joined the firm in 2007 and
held roles including project
engineer, project manager,
business development man-
ager and director of business
development.
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Jeff Dean
was named vice
president of leasing and acqui-
sitions at
Corum Real Estate
Group.
Dean has more than 12 years
of com-
mercial real
estate experi-
ence ranging
from leasing
and acquisi-
tions to asset
management.
In his new
role at the
real estate
firm, Dean
will be responsible for oversee-
ing leasing as well as working
directly with Mike and Eric
Komppa to identify strategic
acquistions in office, multifam-
ily and industrial property
types for the firm and its part-
ners.
Prior to joining Corum, he
spent 10 years at IBC Hold-
ings LLC as director of real
estate. While there, Dean was
involved in many notable
transactions, completing more
than 1 million square feet of
leasing, $100 million in acqui-
sitions and $10 million in
development. One of his first
projects will be Cherry Creek
Plaza in Glendale, where
Corum will be remodeling
the lobbies, common area,
and workout facilities. Corum
plans to introduce some great
spec suites this year as well.
Dean received his bachelor’s
degree from California State
University Chico in politics
and his master’s degree from
the University of Colorado
Boulder in economics.
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Jared Carlon,
firm part-
ner and principal of Norris
Design, was named
North
Metro Chamber of Com-
merce
2015 Business Person of
the Year.
The award was announced
at the Chamber's annual Gala
and Silent Auction. Carlon
received the award based
on his chamber efforts and
involvement on behalf of the
development council.
Carlon has been with Nor-
ris Design, a planning, land-
scape architecture and project
promotion firm, since 2002.
He focuses on both planning
and landscape architecture
for mixed-use, single-family
and multifamily residential,
and retail and commercial
developments.
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Galloway & Company Inc.
recently announced its associ-
ate promotions.
This year’s associates are
Joe
Schiel, PE,
civil engineering
project manager;
Jim Erwin-
Svoboda, PE,
civil project
engineer;
Redge Hudson, PE,
senior structural project man-
ager; and
Terra Mortensen,
PE,
site development coordina-
tor and Fresno office manager.
Tasha Bolivar,
site develop-
ment project manager, was
promoted to senior associate.
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Roth Sheppard Architects
expanded its leadership team
with architects
Adam Harding,
AIA,
and
Brian Berryhill, AIA,
elevated to partner.
Harding received his degree
in environmental design from
the Univer-
sity of Colo-
rado Boulder
in 2004 and
joined Roth
Sheppard the
same year.
Recently,
he was rec-
ognized by
both the
American
Institute of Architects' Colo-
rado Chapter and the six-state
Western Mountain Region
with their 2015 Young Archi-
tect of the Year honor award
for exceptional leadership.
Harding became licensed as
an architect in 2011 at the age
of 29.
Berry-
hill, who
previously
worked for
Oklahoma
City-based
design firm
Elliott +
Associates
Architects,
moved to
Denver to
join Roth Sheppard in October
Brian Dietz
Fred L. Otis
Matt Huelskamp
Jeff Dean
Adam Harding
Brian Berryhill
by Jennifer Hayes
Homebuilder and Seventeen
magazines: Not exactly the
typical teenage combination
of reading materials on family
vacations.
Yet it perfectly suited an
adolescent Angela M.T. Van
Do.
“I kind of just knew what
I always wanted to do,”
said Van Do, AIA, LEED
AP BD+C, senior associate
at Boulder Associates, who
remembers a sixth-grade
industrial art class – with con-
cepts that were challenging
for her classmates to compre-
hend but came naturally to
her – forming the foundation
of her desire to be a part of the
design world.
Van Do’s natural aptitude
for design prompted the New
Jersey native to turn her eye
to architecture. She graduated
with a bachelor’s degree in
design from Clemson Univer-
sity and earned her Master of
Architecture from the Univer-
sity of Tennessee Knoxville.
Between degrees, Van Do
worked for firms in both New
Jersey and in South Carolina
that specialized in health care
and school design, a niche she
found rewarding. But it was
hockey that clinched Colorado
for her.
“My boyfriend, now hus-
band, and I rolled out the
map knowing we wanted
to go someplace different,
someplace out West,” Van Do
recalled of their decision to
move to Colorado in 2001. At
the time, she was finishing
graduate school in Knoxville,
and he was in South Carolina.
“We didn’t want to move
to Seattle or Portland – every-
one was going there. My
husband also is an architect,
so we knew we couldn’t go
somewhere too small for two
architects in the family. It
was between Colorado and
Arizona. And my require-
ments were four seasons and
a hockey team, so we ended
up here.
“Unfortunately, I started
working at Parkhill Ivins Sept.
4, 2001, and a week later the
world changed,” said Van Do,
noting that after 9/11 most of
the firm’s work – primarily
related to entertainment –
went on hold. “No one knew
if it was ever going to be nor-
mal.”
One month later, the firm let
four employees go, including
Van Do.
“But I can’t say enough nice
things about how they laid
me off. It wasn’t a bad separa-
tion.”
In fact, her time at the firm
reinforced her love of and
desire to return to health care
design.
Enter Boulder Associates,
which has exclusively special-
ized in health care and senior
living design since its found-
ing in 1983. Van Do joined the
firm in December 2001 and
has never looked back.
“I really enjoy the patient
side of health and healing,”
said Van Do. “I find design-
ing for health care much more
interesting, more complex
than nonhealth care projects.
“I like being a part of find-
ing a way to make a space
where people go when they
are sick better,” she continued.
“I like being able to make it
a place where people don’t
mind going, who are then
more likely to get well checks,
to stay healthy. I love the
whole wellness factor. I enjoy
being a part of it, a small kind
of way to give back.”
Van Do also thrills at the
challenge presented by
designing for health care proj-
ects.
“My favorite part is coming
back from meetings and syn-
thesizing all the moving parts,
putting answers together to
make a successful project,”
said Van Do. “I’ve learned,
probably the hard way several
times, to listen to the client,
to really hear what they are
saying. Not what you want
them to say or what you think
they are saying but what they
are really saying and work to
make it a reality.
“It is challenging when you
have to tell clients that what
they want isn’t the right fit
for this building or this site
because you always want
to make clients happy,” she
added. “I think the key to my
success and Boulder Associ-
ates’ success is listening to and
acting on behalf our clients,
them knowing that I’m on
their side.”
Van Do also admits her
achievements in the industry
come from her “slowly” com-
ing to terms with what she is
good and not good at.
“I would love to say I’m a
great designer but that is not
my strength,” laughed Van Do.
“But it’s about a collaborative
team effort, where all our play-
ers put a piece in.”
The team at Boulder Associ-
ates has completed a multitude
of projects during Van Do’s
years there, including favorites
of hers such as HealthSouth
Littleton Rehabilitation Hospi-
tal and the radiology oncology
suite at Littleton Adventist
Hospital.
Van Do also is very active
with American Institute of
Architects Colorado, serving in
nearly every position, includ-
ing currently in her second
straight year as president.
“It’s a little of everything,
from events to member out-
reach,” Van Do said of her
work with AIAColorado. “As
president, it’s where the rubber
meets the road: in charge of the
stewardship of the organiza-
tion and showing members the
value of being part of it.”
Van Do also manages to find
time to work with Wildlands
Restoration, a volunteer-
centered organization that
arranges ecological restoration
projects on Colorado public
lands each year, as well as
spending time or, as the case
may be, going on adventures
thought up by her 4-year-old
daughter and her husband.
And as for one of the reasons
Van Do came to Colorado in
the first place, she still finds
time to catch the puck drop
at a hockey game or two. She
just happens to be a New Jer-
sey Devils fan.
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