Urban renewal is about taking a place nobody wants to touch, and turning it into somewhere everyone wants to be. When it works, derelict buildings, empty lots and crime-infested streets give way to lively stretches of entertainment, art, shopping, retail. The...
Real Estate and Construction Management Articles
Jackson Means Business
Adele. Beyoncé. Chaka. While those fabulous women weren’t at the Denver Business Journal’s (DBJ) Outstanding Women in Business Awards on the evening of Aug. 23, their voices filled the opulent Seawell Ballroom at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, providing a...
2018 Q2: report reveals absorption is outpacing new units available
The Denver Metro Apartment Vacancy and Rent report for the second quarter of 2018 shows that more than 3,435 new units have been added to Denver, yet absorption is outpacing the new units delivered. “Absorption was positive for the quarter with 3,875 units being...
A New Craft
It’s not uncommon to consider graduate school life-changing, but a single course? Yet, CityCraft®, a class offered to graduate students in the Master’s in Real Estate and the Built Environment program, is having that effect on students. The course is more of a...
Side by Side
Ben Barco wasn’t born on a construction site, but sometimes it seems that way. He watched his dad buy and flip properties for as long as he can remember. “I was that little kid on the construction site, cleaning up trash,” Barco said. “I worked with [my dad] from a...
All Aboard the Driverless Bandwagon
It’s 4:30 p.m. on a Tuesday. You’re stuck in traffic on I-25. Traffic for days. There are hundreds—nay, thousands—of cars between you and that cold glass of I-made-it-through-another-day-of-work Pinot Grigio. You look over to the driver in the lane next to yours to...
On a Roll
Six students in the Masters of Science in Real Estate and Construction Management program and one student in the Denver MBA program won first prize at the NAIOP Rocky Mountain Real Estate Challenge May 3. This is the 10th time Burns students have won the competition...
Apartment Report Reveals More Building, yet Less Vacancy and Higher Rents
The Denver Metro Apartment Vacancy and Rent report for the first quarter of 2018 shows that more than 2,000 units have been added Denver, yet the city has less vacancy and rents continue to climb. Vacancy in the first quarter was 6.1 percent compared to 6.4 percent in...
Hear from experts on how driverless mobility will change your life
Daniels College of Business Hosts Driverless Mobility Conference May 7 Your life is going to radically change. Driverless vehicles aren’t just an idea, but a tangible technology that will change daily life as we know it. They will reshape our transportation systems,...









