Colorado Real Estate Journal - December 2, 2015
A landscape design and construction company will relocate to a one-of-a-kind building on 2.7 acres in the Golden area. Environmental Landworks Company Inc. paid $1.78 million, or approximately $170 per square foot, for the 10,440-sf building at 17173 Mount Vernon Road. “It was a fairly interesting building,” said Esther Kettering, senior vice president at Cushman & Wakefield . About 60 percent of the building previously served as an event center, while the remainder has two drive-in bays for recreational vehicle maintenance and repair. The building incorporates geothermal heating and cooling, so, “Their monthly bill was impressively low,” Kettering said. There are 125 trees on the property, which has a large, fenced yard area and a 9,000-sf private garden. Located in unincorporated Jefferson County, the site had a planned unit development that allowed for outside RV storage. “We had to go in and get that converted to truck storage for Environmental Landworks,” said Kettering, explaining that required a minor PUD amendment. The yard area sits behind the building and isn’t visible from the street. Environmental Landworks will relocate to the property from Wheat Ridge. “It’s a dynamite location for a business such as theirs because they have access to a confluence of highways: I-70, C-470, Colfax, Sixth Avenue and 93,” said Kettering. Kettering and Terry Matthews of Cushman & Wakefield represented the sellers, Thomas and Brenda Major. Rick Giarratano and Mike Lindquist of Fairbairn Commercial Inc. represented the buyer. Correction A press release provided to CREJ regarding BMC Investments’ planned “micro-hotel” at 240 Josephine St. in Cherry Creek misstated the name of the project architect. Johnson Nathan Strohe is designing the hotel, which was featured in a Nov. 18-Dec. 1 article.