Real Estate and Construction Management Articles

A how-to: Urban renewal done right

A how-to: Urban renewal done right

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...

Jackson Means Business

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Hear from experts on how driverless mobility will change your life

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,...