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INNOVATION Category (category sponsored by Redland) Basecamp Center, Frisco. What could have been a routine Whole Foods- anchored shopping center has become “the world’s highest TOD” that includes six separate green buildings, a central park, local retailers, and 24 above-the-shop microunits (75 percent affordable, 50 percent reserved for locals). The jury cited creative finance involving six different lenders for a $30 million project. Dairy Block, Denver. A long-stalled project has become an exemplar of infill combined with historic preservation. Dairy Block blends 250,000 square feet of new office construction with 172-room hotel, local retailers including a successful food hall, 700-piece Colorado-focused art collection, and “Maker Space” alley enlivened by public art. Fifty Eight Hundred, Lakewood. This project rescues a long vacant/ abandoned/contaminated eight-story office building as high-quality affordable housing that is 100 percent preleased with a wait-list of 3,500. Its success is changing the image of a blighted area of Lakewood and attracting new interest in business revitalization. INSPIRE (category sponsored by Trammell Crow Co.) Downtown Fort Collins Enhanced Alleyway Program. Since 2006, this project has revamped seven square blocks of alleys with paving, lighting and public art, creating walkable new connections from Old Town to CSU. It has spurred new investment in 12 buildings and boosted the value of adjacent properties. Festival Park, Castle Rock. In 2017, this project remodeled an ugly, unused two-acre park into a vibrant downtown center that has attracted $150 million of new investment into vertically mixed-use projects within a block. The Regency Athletic Complex at MSU Denver. This $23.6 million effort replaced a 12-acre brownfield with a state-of-the-art complex for baseball, softball and soccer. An innovative system to compact fill soil in place rather than hauling it away saved MSU $3 million. In addition to selecting four projects from the finalists as winners, ULI Colorado will recognize a Legacy Award winner for Lifetime Achievement. Recognition will also be given to an industry Rising Star. This award will go to a young leader under 35. The nominees and four winners will be honored at a gala at the Seawell Ballroom, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, on Thursday, April 4, 5:30 to 8:30 pm. Also being presented are individual awards for Lifetime Achievement and Rising Star. Both individual seats and tables are available for the event, with seating limited to 500. For more information, contact Colorado@uli.org or go to http://colorado.uli.org. With 1,400 members, ULI Colorado is one of the largest and most active District Councils of the international ULI, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit think tank dedicated to leadership in responsible land use. Colorado Construction & Design | 13 Basecamp Center Dairy Block Fifty Eight Hundred Fort Collins Enhanced Alleyway Program Festival Park