The building at 300 Santa Fe Drive was home to Mile High Vienna Stand until December. (Google Maps) Pizza is the new hot dog in Baker. The building at 300 Santa Fe Drive, formerly home to Mile High Vienna Stand, sold this week for $1.33 million, according to public records. The roughly 2,000-square-foot building sold to an entity managed by Walter’s303 Pizzeria & Publik House owner Michael Kienast. Kienast did not respond to requests for comment.  Mike Lindemann, owner of CM Commercial Partners, represented Kienast in the deal and said the space will be another Walter’s303 Pizzeria ..read more

The Lone Tree property occupied by John Elway Cadillac has sold. (Courtesy photo) Want to see your sale or lease here? We now have a new process for submitting deals! Fill out this form to appear in next week’s Pipeline and learn more about what deals we accept here.  Deals of note: EP Caddy LLC purchased 8201 and 8301 Parkway Drive in Lone Tree, home to John Elway Cadillac, for $14.2 million from Argonaut Holdings LLC. MHC 282 LLC purchased 12045 Moline St., a self-storage facility in Henderson, for $3.5 million from All Secure Self Storage LLC. JRDN Investments purchased 703 Salida Wa ..read more

Cory Ross, left, and Riley Pratt of Prairie Capital A Kansas City wealth management firm wants to expand its business from the Midwest to the Mountain West.  Prairie Capital has had Denver clientele dating back a decade, but recently has doubled down on growing its services here. The firm, founded nearly 30 years ago in Kansas City, has slowly grown in the decades since, generally serving clients between Chicago and Dallas to the north and south, and from Denver to St. Louis to the west and east.  “Denver is becoming a hub,” said Cory Ross, managing director at Prairie Capital. “It ..read more

The front of the house features glass and a steel panel, which, according to owner Scott Kirkegaard, looks like a work of art. (Courtesy Kristopher Lewis with KL Media) Scott Kirkegaard is ready for a new challenge.  Kirkegaard, the third-generation co-owner of custom home builder AJ Kirkegaard Contractors, is selling his 7,000-square-foot mansion at 2355 S. Fillmore St. in University Park for $5 million. He and his wife, Kristen Crabtree, built it in 2018. “I’m a builder,” he said. “I’ve built 12 houses in 25 years of marriage. It’s hard for me to stay in a house for too long. I just w ..read more

A drone view of the downtown Denver skyline. (Courtesy Guerilla Capturing) New rules imposed by Denver and Colorado that require large buildings to reduce pollution will be too expensive and are at odds with federal regulations, groups representing owners and developers of office towers, hotels and apartment complexes allege in a lawsuit filed this week. The Colorado Apartment Association, the Apartment Association of Metro Denver, the Colorado Hotel and Lodging Association and NAIOP — an association representing commercial real estate developers — said the green-energy rules preempt a feder ..read more

The building at 1425 Market St. has sold. (Matt Geiger/BusinessDen) The owner of a LoDo office building has sold it to a tenant at a discount.  The two-story, 17,700-square-foot building at 1425 Market St. sold last week for $4.68 million, or $264 a foot, to a dentist that offices there, records show. Built in 1912, the space was renovated in 2015 and originally listed at $5.9 million, per a marketing brochure for the property. Sam Leger and Graham Trotter of Unique Properties listed the building on behalf of the seller.  The building — which is wedged between Wally’s Wisconsin Tav ..read more

The building at 1425 Market St. has sold. (Matt Geiger/BusinessDen) The owner of a LoDo office building has sold it to a tenant at a discount.  The two-story, 17,700-square-foot building at 1425 Market St. sold last week for $4.68 million, or $264 a foot, to a dentist that offices there, records show. Built in 1912, the space was renovated in 2015 and originally listed at $5.9 million, per a marketing brochure for the property. Sam Leger and Graham Trotter of Unique Properties listed the building on behalf of the seller.  The building — which is wedged between Wally’s Wisconsin Tav ..read more

Cantina Loca opened at 2890 Zuni St. in 2021. (Maia Luem/BusinessDen) Chef Dana Rodriguez’s 3-year-old LoHi Mexican restaurant and bar is on the market.   Cantina Loca, which Rodriguez, Scott Kiere and Karen Ashworth-Macfarlane founded, is listed for $300,000, according to an Axio Commercial Real Estate marketing brochure.  Dana Rodriguez The 2,765-square-foot space at 2890 Zuni St. is described as a “rare turnkey restaurant,” meaning an operator could take over the space without needing to build it out. The restaurant has been closed in recent days and its website is no lon ..read more

The Alfred A. Arraj U.S. Courthouse at 901 19th St. in downtown Denver. (BusinessDen file) Adams District Court NGC Group Inc. dba New Generation Construction Group v. Frontier Drywall Supply LLC Motion to substitute a $184,060 bond in place of a $122,707 mechanic’s lien at 2556 Oswego St. in Aurora. Attorneys: Karl A. Berg Jr. and Erin M. Leach, Mulliken Weiner Berg & Jolivet P.C. Filed: 4/10/2024 24cv30555 Foundation Building Materials LLC v. Walpro Builders LLC; Javier Lebaron; William Adrian Lebaron The plaintiff claims it is owed $44,411 from the defendants for construction supplies ..read more

The Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel is an independent office of the Colorado Supreme Court, whose building is seen here in 2015. (The Denver Post) A Denver attorney who has been suspended from practicing law for mishandling one client’s retainer is being sued for allegedly stealing another client’s $14,000 settlement. Armin Sharifi, who passed Colorado’s bar exam in 2016, was suspended for six months on April 11. He must also spend two years on probation and complete ethics training. Sharifi graduated from the University of Colorado and then the Sturm College of Law at the University o ..read more