August 17-September 6, 2016 —
COLORADO REAL ESTATE JOURNAL
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Office
by Jill Jamieson-Nichols
Revolution is coming to RiNo.
Revolution 3600, that is.
A 150,000-square-foot Class
A office building with outdoor
space and a ground-floor food
hall, Revolution 3600 will be
located at 3600 Brighton Blvd.
It’s being developed by a team
led by Ed Haselden and Rob
Cohen, who developed IMA’s
headquarters at Denver Union
Station.
Revolution 3600 is a distinc-
tive building
in the heart
of a neigh-
borhood that
c o n t i n u e s
to look for
unique prod-
uct, said JLL
Vice Presi-
dent
Peter
Merrion.
“The loca-
tion is fantastic. It’s right in
the middle of everything,” said
Merrion, who noted the site is
1½ blocks from the 38th and
Blake commuter rail station,
and two blocks in either direc-
tion from a new Natural Gro-
cers store and RiNo’s first hotel,
The Source Hotel. Right across
the alley is the Helikon Gallery,
and 90 micro apartments that
McWhinney is planning.
A first-floor food hall/mar-
ketplace concept on the build-
ing’s north side will literally
open its door to the alley on one
side and, on the other, Brighton
Boulevard. A restaurant space
with outdoor seating will face
toward the south.
Each of the building’s five
floors will have an outdoor
deck, while the top floor will
have a large, outdoor commu-
nity space with mountain views
where employees can take a
break, work on their laptops
or gather for special events.
“We want that to be another
community focused part of the
building,” said Merrion, who is
marketing the office space with
JLL’s James Roupp and Ryan
Arnold.
At 30,000 sf, the rectangular
floor plates are flexible and large
for River North. “I think this is
a floor plate that people get. It’s
simple to plan, it’s simple to
occupy,” Merrion said. To date,
interest has come from archi-
tects, technology companies
and financial services firms.
“We think it’s going to be
a fairly broad base because
there’s a tremendous amount
of focus on the employer side
to attract and continue to attract
the top talent. This is the next
‘it’ neighborhood in Denver,”
he said.
The city of Denver will be
undertaking major infrastruc-
ture and streetscape improve-
ments along Brighton Boule-
vard that will result in, among
other things, an improved aes-
thetic, and access for bicyclists
and pedestrians. Revolution
3600 will offer bike storage, and
showers and lockers, plus there
will be underground vehicle
parking at a ratio of 2:1,000.
“When you look at all the
access in conjunction with
all of the development of the
neighborhood around it, with a
heavy focus on retail, services,
the hotel coming on line a cou-
ple blocks away, not to mention
all the apartments being built
around here, we think a lot of
industry types are going to find
that attractive,” Merrion com-
mented.
The team includes Ander-
son Mason Dale Architects,
Haselden Construction and
Wilson & Co., which is provid-
ing engineering services.
In addition to the IMA
building, the developers were
involved with 1755 Blake and
Millennium Financial Center in
Lower Downtown, said Mer-
rion. “They’re a group that’s
accustomed to putting out bou-
tique-sized, high-quality prod-
uct.
“It always helps in Denver
when people know who they’re
doing business with. I think
office occupiers are going to
say, ‘I can go visit three of the
buildings they’ve built already.
I know that it’s good-quality
product. I know what it works
well for some pretty well-
respected companies, so it’s
going to work well for me.’”
The “Revolution” concept
recognizes there are pioneering
companies coming into RiNo,
but also long-established Den-
ver firms looking for the next
frontier, said Merrion. “I think
what Revolution does is it gives
a nod to the fact that you don’t
have to be a specific person or a
specific company. This is going
to be a building that appeals to
all of those users in a market
that is pioneering – and that,
in conjunction with the estab-
lished ownership group, is reas-
suring.”
Asking rates for office space
average approximately $32 per
sf triple net with anticipated
expenses of $12 per sf. “That
Outdoor space will be provided on every floor at Revolution 3600, a Class A office and retail building coming
to RiNo.
Peter Merrion
