The Colorado Supreme Court (the “Court”) has now weighted-in on the requirements for foreign courts to create enforceable charging orders against Colorado LLCs. In JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. v. McClure (2017 CO 22. No. 15SC816 (Colo. 2017)), the Court ruled
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House Passes Bill to Clarify HVCRE Rule
Last week the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that seeks to delineate what causes a commercial real estate loan to be classified as a “high volatility commercial real estate loan,” or, as it’s more commonly referred to,
Update: Denver Voters Approve Green Roof Initiative; What’s Next for Developers?
On Thursday, the Denver Election Division released the final unofficial vote totals for the 2017 municipal election, and it appears that Initiative 300 will pass with 54% of the vote. We discussed the Green Roof Initiative in a post on
Denver Voters to Decide Fate of Green Roof Initiative in Upcoming Election
Last week, Denver voters received their ballots for the November 7 municipal election. In addition to considering a $937 million bond issuance and a Denver Public Schools Board election that has garnered national attention, Denver voters will decide whether to
Federal Tax Reform Update
At the end of September, the Trump administration and Congressional GOP leadership released their much-awaited proposal for tax reform in the “Unified Framework for Fixing Our Broken Tax Code.”
Updates from Boulder County: A Bid for Amazon, Google Buys Property, and Senior Housing
California Investor Buys former StorageTek/ConocoPhillips Campus in Bid for Amazon
In a bid to have Amazon select Boulder County as its much-ballyhooed second headquarters, California’s Bancroft Capital recently went under contract to purchase the 432-acre property (depicted below) in Louisville that
Denver City Council Designates Packard’s Hill Historic District in West Highlands
On Monday night, the Denver City Council approved an ordinance creating Denver’s fifty-third historic district: Packard’s Hill Historic District. Located in the West Highlands neighborhood, the District spans north to south from 35th to 32nd Avenue, and east to west
Boulder to Grow Open-Space Network with Purchase of $9.5 million Parcel
Tuesday evening the Boulder City Council unanimously approved the $9.5 million purchase of the 615-acre parcel located at 4536 N. 95th St. (pictured below) to add to the city’s 45,000-acre open space network. The parcel is the fourth most expensive open-space
Revitalizing a Rocky Mountain Debate: “Slow-Growth” Strategies v. Long-Term Planning
David Brewster, a summer law clerk with Otten Johnson, authored this post. David is a rising third-year law student at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.
Rapid population growth and lagging infrastructure development in the Denver Metro Area are
Colorado Condominium Construction Defect Issue: Colorado Supreme Court Affirms the Right of Declarants for Condominium and Other Common Interest Communities to Require Binding Arbitration of Disputes
As previously reported on this blog a Colorado Court of Appeals decision in 2015 allowed a developer/declarant to retain a right to consent to amendments to a common interest community’s declaration that require arbitration of construction defect claims.
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