The apartments would go up on a busy stretch of Speer Boulevard. (Matt Geiger/BusinessDen)
A new Aspen-based development firm has purchased a site in LoHi where it wants to build apartments.
Pagewest bought a string of properties along Speer Boulevard and 29th Avenue earlier this month for $8.5 million, according to public records.
The combined parcels, currently occupied by retail buildings and offices, are about 1.5 acres, and the deal works out to about $132 per square foot for the land.
Pagewest did not respond to a request for comment. The company proposed building apartments at the site in November 2024.
The latest plans submitted to Denver call for 282 units across two 7-story buildings on either side of Bryant Street, which connects Speer Boulevard to 29th Avenue. The existing structures would be demolished.
Co-founder Adam Wallace announced the creation of Pagewest, an apartment builder and investor, on LinkedIn around the start of the year. The company’s website doesn’t mention any other projects or holdings.
The seller of the LoHi site, Jan Christensen, appears to be the widow of Robert Christensen, founder of Aspen Gold Realty. The firm, which didn’t respond to a request for comment, is now run by his son Michael. Its offices are at 2870 Speer Blvd., part of the proposed development site.
The Christensens assembled the land holdings over the past 40 years, with some parcels bought in the 1980s and others purchased as recently as 2021, public records show.
Several other large apartments have been proposed nearby.
Last year, San Antonio, Texas-based Kairoi proposed a 5-story, 465-unit complex a block from Pagewest’s site at 2777 N. Zuni St., where a Residence Inn currently operates. Next door is 2800 Speer Blvd., where San Francisco, California-based Carmel Partners wants to build 189 units across two 5-story apartment buildings.
And last month, Greenwood Village-based Infinity Properties proposed building a 9-story, 132-unit apartment building on a nearly half-acre lot at 2534 18th St.
The apartments would go up on a busy stretch of Speer Boulevard. (Matt Geiger/BusinessDen)
A new Aspen-based development firm has purchased a site in LoHi where it wants to build apartments.
Pagewest bought a string of properties along Speer Boulevard and 29th Avenue earlier this month for $8.5 million, according to public records.
The combined parcels, currently occupied by retail buildings and offices, are about 1.5 acres, and the deal works out to about $132 per square foot for the land.
Pagewest did not respond to a request for comment. The company proposed building apartments at the site in November 2024.
The latest plans submitted to Denver call for 282 units across two 7-story buildings on either side of Bryant Street, which connects Speer Boulevard to 29th Avenue. The existing structures would be demolished.
Co-founder Adam Wallace announced the creation of Pagewest, an apartment builder and investor, on LinkedIn around the start of the year. The company’s website doesn’t mention any other projects or holdings.
The seller of the LoHi site, Jan Christensen, appears to be the widow of Robert Christensen, founder of Aspen Gold Realty. The firm, which didn’t respond to a request for comment, is now run by his son Michael. Its offices are at 2870 Speer Blvd., part of the proposed development site.
The Christensens assembled the land holdings over the past 40 years, with some parcels bought in the 1980s and others purchased as recently as 2021, public records show.
Several other large apartments have been proposed nearby.
Last year, San Antonio, Texas-based Kairoi proposed a 5-story, 465-unit complex a block from Pagewest’s site at 2777 N. Zuni St., where a Residence Inn currently operates. Next door is 2800 Speer Blvd., where San Francisco, California-based Carmel Partners wants to build 189 units across two 5-story apartment buildings.
And last month, Greenwood Village-based Infinity Properties proposed building a 9-story, 132-unit apartment building on a nearly half-acre lot at 2534 18th St.
