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COLORADO REAL ESTATE JOURNAL
— April 6-April 19, 2016
Construction, Design & Engineering News
by Kris Oppermann Stern
PinkardConstructionCo. recent-
ly topped out 8181 Arista Place,
a five-story mixed-use building
in Broomfield, located near the
1stBankCenter in theAristaDevel-
opment. The architect is gkkworks.
“My favorite part of the design
is how it fits into such a diverse
development that has so much
opportunity and potential. Arista
embodies the idea of live, work,
play,” said Joseph Doyle, AIA,
associate principal with gkkworks.
“Its location, between Denver
and Boulder, makes it accessible
to everyone and the views stretch
across the Front Range – a true
representation of why we live in
Colorado.”
The $12.6 million construction
project is 90,000 square feet with
structural steel and concrete shear
cores, an exterior skin of structural
stud framing, and combinations
of glass, brick, stone, metal panels
and stucco. The first floor is retail
and restaurant space, and floors
two through five are office space.A
rooftop deck is planned.
While the roof and exterior skin
are complete, andwindowinstalla-
tion isunderway, the sitewas really
complicated, according to Jess Bec-
cerra, project manager for Pinkard.
“There’s not much space, and
sequencing was difficult,” Becerra
said.
However, “The most rewarding
part of the job was being respon-
sible for transforming the once
empty lot into a beautiful five-story
building,” said Eric Young, super-
intendent with Pinkard Construc-
tion.
“Building quality is important
to us and Pinkard’s window and
storefront framing and water-
proofing processes resonated with
me,” said Joe Zepeda, senior proj-
ect manager for developer Wiens
Capital Management. “Multiple
individuals sign off on every single
window opening – a quality check
for every single window opening.
It impresses me that someone in
the construction industry would
incorporate that kind of a quality
check. I’m seeing evidence of this
attention to quality all over the
project.”
The project is on schedule for a
July finish.
“Joseph Doyle with gkkworks
has been great to work with,”
Young said. “I will build with
Joseph every chance I get. The pro-
cess goes so much smoother with
an engaged architect who knows
what he is doing and takes pride
in working with me to make the
building as perfect as is possible.”
The feeling is mutual. “Work-
ing with Pinkard Construction has
been an extremely collaborative
and team-oriented process from
the start of design through con-
struction,” saidDoyle.
Arista Place II LLC is the owner.
Pinkard constructed the adjacent
8001Arista Place office/mixed-use
facility in 2008, which has been
100 percent occupied for several
years. Wiens Capital Management
subsequently awarded the contract
of the 8181 building to Pinkard
and construction began early last
summer.
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Vertical construction tops out at 8181 Arista Place.
8181 Arista Place will have first-floor retail with office space above.
Alliance Construction Solu-
tions completed the construc-
tion of the permanent support-
ive housing project for Colorado
Coalition for the Homeless.
The 104,306-square-foot mul-
tifamily housing development
is located at 3999 Colorado
Blvd. in Denver. Renaissance
at North Colorado Station pro-
vides 103 units of rental housing
consisting of 19 studio, 54 one-
bedroom, 24 two-bedroom and
six three-bedroom apartments.
“Having a warm, safe place to
call home is essential for living
a productive life,” said Dave
Plumb Sr., superintendent for
Alliance Construction Solutions.
“This kind of project and this
type of collaborative effort make
our community stronger.”
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Colorado Coalition for the Homeless provides 103 rental units of sup-
portive housing.
Foothills Commercial Build-
ershasbegun the30,000-square-
foot renovation of Panorama
Orthopedics and Spine Center
located at 660 Golden Ridge
Road in Golden. The $2.5 mil-
lion project will be complete
in 2016. The nine phases of the
project will be carefully orches-
trated so as not to disrupt nor-
mal operations for the staff and
the daily influx of 400 patients,
including professional athletes,
who visit the clinic each day.
In partnership with South-
field Design Group in Ever-
green, the team at Foothills will
update and upgrade the entire
second floor, which includes
the waiting area, exam rooms,
casting areas, X-ray department
and post-operative patient
rooms, as well as remodel a
retail supply store, which sells
durable medical equipment,
scooters, bracing, crutches and
other equipment for injuries
and surgeries.
“We are excited to be part of
such an important project for
an organization that helps so
many people in our communi-
ty,” said Rocky Hollingsworth,
president and CEO of Foothills.
“We understand the impor-
tance of working among health
care providers and patients
without causing hardships or
disruptions to their schedules
or their patients’ needs.”
Celebrating its 30th anni-
versary, FCBI was founded by
Hollingsworth in August 1986
and has grown into a multimil-
lion-dollar construction com-
pany. Other projects underway
include Big Mike Naughton
Ford, Enterprise Rent-A-Car,
Centura Health, Touchstone
Imaging, Banded Oak Brew-
ing, Renegade Brewing, River
North Brewery and Maria
Empanada.
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Foothills Commercial Builders is renovating Panorama Orthopedics
and Spine Center.
