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ZOCALO AWARDS & MEDIA

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

We’re honored to be recognized by the community at large for our work to build better communities through thoughtful and planet-friendly developments.

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SEPTEMBER 2023

The AAMD Tributes Awards – Gordon Von Stroh Community Impact Award (The Apartment Association of Metro Denver)

MARCH 2023

David Zucker – Denver’s ‘affordable’ units ordinance, building permits delays drive frustrations, cost (The Denver Gazette)

MAY 2023

The Quayle – Adaptive Reuse In Denver Could Bring Activity Back To City’s Older Neighborhoods (Bisnow)

June 2023

Notable – Vacant office buildings find new life as affordable apartments (CBS News Colorado)

OCTOBER 2020

Out-of-state mortgage banking company arranges financing for Lakewood apts. (CREJ)

SEPTEMBER 2020

Vacant Office Building in Lakewood to be Converted into Affordable Housing for Local Artists (Mile High CRE)

SEPTEMBER 2020

Zocalo Lands $48M for Denver-Area Affordable Project (Multi-Housing News)

SEPTEMBER 2020

Bellwether Enterprise Arranges $47.6M Bond Financing for Affordable Housing Project in Colorado (ReBusiness Online)

JULY 2020

2020 Gold Nugget Award for Littleton Project (Mile High CRE)

MAY 2020

Denver’s Biggest Landlords Discuss May Collections (BusinessDen)

MARCH 2020

In Denver’s Amenity Wars, Landlords Face a Common Enemy: Covid-19 (Denver Business Journal)

MARCH 2020

NAIOP Celebrates 2019 Awards of Achievement (Mile High CRE)

FEBRUARY 2020

NAIOP Celebrates 2019 Awards of Achievement (Colorado Real Estate Journal)

JANURARY 2020

The First Avenue Hotel building has finally reopened as The Quayle apartments, and it’s full of local art (Denverite)

NOVEMBER 2019

Who is Who 2020 (AAMD)

OCTOBER 2019

Historic Denver Inc. Awards 2019 Community Preservation: The Quayle (Historic Denver Inc.)

SEPTEMBER 2019

DBJ’S C-Suite Awards, Susan Maxwell (Denver Business Journal)

JULY 2019

DBJ’s Outstanding Women in Business, Susan Maxwell (Denver Business Journal)

JULY 2019

Revealed: DBJ’s C-Suite Awards winners for 2019 (Denver Business Journal)

JULY 2019

Revealed: DBJ’s Outstanding Women in Business (Denver Business Journal)

JULY 2019

Repurposing Historic Gems: Why Adaptive Reuse Matters (Authentic F&F)

JUNE 2019

Denver City Council approves project that includes affordable housing near Sloan’s Lake (Fox31)

JUNE 2019

Denver council approves affordable housing, 16-floor tower near Sloan’s Lake (The Denver Post)

JUNE 2019

Controversial Apartment Building Approved In Sloan’s Lake Park (CBS Denver)

JUNE 2019

City Council Approves Zoning for 300 Units Near Sloan’s Lake (Westword)

JUNE 2019

City Council gives green light for Sloan’s Lake development (Denver News 9)

JUNE 2019

In a classic Denver development clash, west side neighbors fail to halt hundreds of home – half affordable (Denverite)

JUNE 2019

Denver City Council holds final vote on new Sloan’sLake development (Denver News 7)

MAY 2019

Movers and Shakers Week Ending 05.17.19 (Denver Business Journal)

MAY 2019

Amenity wars: How a developer is convincing renters (Denver Business Journal)

MAY 2019

Zocalo to Deliver In-Demand, High-Design, Smaller Units to RiNo (MileHigh CRE)

MAY 2019

Katie Gordon Named Director of Training and Culture at Zocalo (Barefoot PR)

APRIL 2019

The Herd: New hires, departures and promotions 4.30.19 (BusinessDen)

APRIL 2019

Movers and Shakers Week Ending 04.26.19 (Mile High CRE)

APRIL 2019

Zocalo Hires Nelson Laux as Community Director for Coda Cherry Creek (Barefoot PR)

APRIL 2019

Zocalo Hires Nicole Courter as Community Director for Downtown Denver’s Premier Lofts (Barefoot PR)

APRIL 2019

Zocalo Secures Financing for Affordable Housing Project on South Broadway (Mile High CRE)

APRIL 2019

Zocalo Partners with City of Denver to Finance Affordable Housing Project on South Broadway (Barefoot PR)

MARCH 2019

Chris Schillinger Partner & Senior Project Manager at Zocalo (Denver Business Journal)

FEBRUARY 2019

Zocalo Launches Two-Year Nonprofit Partnership with Re:Vision (Barefoot PR)

FEBRUARY 2019

The Herd: New hires, departures and promotions (BusinessDen)

FEBRUARY 2019

Local Projects Match Preservation & Affordable Housing (Historic Denver)

FEBRUARY 2019

Chris Schillinger Named an Equity Owner at Zocalo (Barefoot PR)

JANUARY 2019

The Herd: New hires, departures and promotions (BusinessDen)

JANUARY 2019

Movers and Shakers (Mile High CRE)

JANUARY 2019

Brian Watson Promoted to Senior Property Accountant at Zocalo (Barefoot PR)

JANUARY 2019

Why Denver Housing Authority has Sold off Prime Real Estate Instead of Building Affordable Housing (Bisnow)

JANUARY 2019

The Herd: New hires, departures and promotions (BusinessDen)

JANUARY 2019

Movers and Shakers (Mile High CRE)

JANUARY 2019

Madeline Grawey Promoted to Director of Business and Marketing at Zocalo (Barefoot PR)

DECEMBER 2018

People on the move (Denver Business Journal)

NOVEMBER 2018

Clark Atkinson Becomes Newest Principal at Zocalo (Barefoot PR)

NOVEMBER 2018

Denver Power Women: 5 Questions With Susan Maxwell (Bisnow)

NOVEMBER 2018

1st Avenue Residences (Denver Infill)

NOVEMBER 2018

Susan Maxwell of Zocalo Community Development Recognized as Denver Power Women 2018 Honoree (Barefoot PR)

OCTOBER 2018

Zocalo Community Development Finalist for Nine Tributes Awards from the Apartment Association of Metro Devner (Barefoot PR)

OCTOBER 2018

Developer spends $6.6M on RiNo site; 13 stories planned (BusinessDen)

OCTOBER 2018

Executive Voice: Zocalo’s Clark Atkinson seeks authenticity through building (Denver Business Journal)

OCTOBER 2018

Delgado joins Zocalo Community Development (CREJ)

OCTOBER 2018

The Herd: Departures, new hires and promotions (BusinessDen)

OCTOBER 2018

Zocalo Hires Shequena Gray as Executive Assistant (Barefoot PR)

OCTOBER 2018

Zocalo Hires Paul Birnesser as Vice President of Finance and Accounting (Barefoot PR)

SEPTEMBER 2018

Movers and Shakers (Mile High CRE)

SEPTEMBER 2018

Zocalo Hired Torrance Delgado as Assistant Project Manager (Barefoot PR)

SEPTEMBER 2018

The Herd: New hires, departures and promotions (BusinessDen)

SEPTEMBER 2018

Building for the boomers: How Developers plan to house an aging population (DBJ)

AUGUST 2018

Denver Rising Transit Oriented Development (AAMD Apartment Trends)

AUGUST 2018

Zocalo Community Development Creates Sustainable Multi-Family (Green Home Builder)

AUGUST 2018

Zocalo Promotes Alexia Teichman to Community Director at Apex 5510 (Barefoot PR)

AUGUST 2018

Shaping communities through systems thinking (CREJ)

JULY 2018

Several A/E/C Industry Companies Recognized as Best Places to Work (Mile High CRE)

JUNE 2018

2018 Metro Denver’s Best Places to Work (DBJ)

JUNE 2018

Zocalo Community Development Named One of Metro Denver’s Best Places to work by Denver Business Journal (Barefoot PR)

JUNE 2018

Denver approves $2.5 million in tax breaks for affordable housing in historic, run-down First Avenue Hotel on Broadway (Denver Post)

JUNE 2018

A year before it reopens, below-market housing on Broadway has a long list (Denverite)

MAY 2018

First Avenue Hotel is set to become affordable micro- apartments on Broadway – with millions in city help (Denverite)

MAY 2018

The developer’s dilemma: Preserving the 15-minute community (CREJ)

MAY 2018

DBJ 2018 Best Places to Work finalists (Denver Business Journal)

MAY 2018

Historic South Broadway Building to be turned into affordable housing (News 7)

APRIL 2018

Why renovation of historic hotel building is this Denver developer’s “most complicated project” (Denver Business Journal)

APRIL 2018

Hybrid condo and affordable project coming to Sloan’s Lake (Denver Business Journal)

APRIL 2018

Proposed mixed-use development garners mixed reviews from neighbors (BusinessDen)

APRIL 2018

Zocalo plans 16-story tower by Sloan’s Lake (CREJ)

APRIL 2018

Mixed-Use Apartment Community For 55+ Active Lifestyle to Open Near Light Rail Station in Historic Downtown Littleton, Colorado (Barefoot PR)

JANUARY 2018

Kathleen Bole, Zocalo’s New Development Manager (Barefoot PR)

JANUARY 2018

Ryan Rogers, Zocalo’s New Director of Predevelopment (Barefoot PR)

JANUARY 2018

Historic Building in SoBo to Become Affordable Housing (Mile High CRE)

SEPTEMBER 2017

Elegant and ecological: In Cherry Creek North, take a champagne tour of very walkable, sustainable apartments (Denver Post)

SEPTEMBER 2017

Boulder advances public-private development plans at 30th and Pearl (Daily Camera)

JUNE 2017

Coda Apartments Awarded Prestigious LEED Gold Green Building Certification (PR Web)

APRIL 2017

South Broadway landmark to get micro units (Business Den)

MARCH 2017

The Grove at Stapleton Awarded Prestigious LEED Gold Green Building Certification (PR Web)

JANUARY 2017

Massive transit-oriented housing project in Elyria-Swansea could build 560 homes near stock show (The Denver Post)

NOVEMBER 2010

Solera Wins Coveted Project-of-the-Year Award (University of Denver)

OCTOBER 2009

Principal Raises 214.4 for Green Fund (IPE Real Estate)

JUNE 2009

Solera Soars to new Heights in Sustainability (Colorado Real Estate Journal)

MAY 2009

With Solera, Zocalo Development expands its green building empire. (Denver Westword Blogs)

APRIL 2009

Zocalo Community Development included for creation of Solar Mortgages at RiverClay: • Read the full report – Solar Mortgages Drive Sales (Environmental Defense Fund’s 2009 Innovations Review)

JUNE 2008

Getting ‘Greenwashed’? (Denver Business Journal)

MAY 2008

Exceeding the Status Quo: A Developer Fights Green Washing One Building At a Time (Strategize Magazine)

MAY 2008

LoDo goes Eco (5280 Magazine)

MAY 2008

RiverClay “Denver’s Healthiest Residence” (Press release)

MARCH/APRIL 2008

Feature “Is LEED Certification Worth It?” (ULI March 2008 Multifamily Trends)

NOVEMBER 2007

Zocalo Development Wins MBD Business Citizen of the Year Award 2007 (Press release)

SEPTEMBER 2023

The AAMD Tributes Awards – Gordon Von Stroh Community Impact Award (The Apartment Association of Metro Denver)

SEPTEMBER 2020

Zocalo Lands $48M for Denver-Area Affordable Project (Multi-Housing News)

FEBRUARY 2020

NAIOP Celebrates 2019 Awards of Achievement (Colorado Real Estate Journal)

NOVEMBER 2019

Who is Who 2020 (AAMD)

SEPTEMBER 2019

DBJ’S C-Suite Awards, Susan Maxwell (Denver Business Journal)

JULY 2019

DBJ’s Outstanding Women in Business, Susan Maxwell (Denver Business Journal)

JULY 2019

Revealed: DBJ’s C-Suite Awards winners for 2019 (Denver Business Journal)

JULY 2019

Revealed: DBJ’s Outstanding Women in Business (Denver Business Journal)

MAY 2019

Movers and Shakers Week Ending 05.17.19 (Denver Business Journal)

JANUARY 2019

Movers and Shakers (Mile High CRE)

JANUARY 2019

Movers and Shakers (Mile High CRE)

DECEMBER 2018

People on the move (Denver Business Journal)

NOVEMBER 2018

1st Avenue Residences (Denver Infill)

SEPTEMBER 2018

Movers and Shakers (Mile High CRE)

AUGUST 2018

Denver Rising Transit Oriented Development (AAMD Apartment Trends)

MAY 2018

DBJ 2018 Best Places to Work finalists (Denver Business Journal)

NOVEMBER 2010

Solera Wins Coveted Project-of-the-Year Award (University of Denver)

OCTOBER 2009

Principal Raises 214.4 for Green Fund (IPE Real Estate)

JUNE 2009

Solera Soars to new Heights in Sustainability (Colorado Real Estate Journal)

APRIL 2009

Zocalo Community Development included for creation of Solar Mortgages at RiverClay: • Read the full report – Solar Mortgages Drive Sales (Environmental Defense Fund’s 2009 Innovations Review)

JUNE 2008

Getting ‘Greenwashed’? (Denver Business Journal)

MAY 2008

LoDo goes Eco (5280 Magazine)

MARCH/APRIL 2008

Feature “Is LEED Certification Worth It?” (ULI March 2008 Multifamily Trends)

SUSTAINABLE SINCE DAY ONE

We were the first to develop a LEED®-certified project in Downtown Denver with RiverClay Condominiums in 2008. Today, we’re nationally recognized as a leader in sustainable development, known for creating spaces where people connect and flourish.