DENVER-The overall occupancy rate rises nearly two percentage points to 57.7%, according to Bob Benton of Robert S. Benton & Associates, with the average room hitting $96.65 in 2004.

BOULDER, CO-The $36-million St. Julien Hotel & Spa opens on Ninth Street, between Canyon Boulevard and Walnut Street. It is the first in this city's Downtown since the Hotel Boulderado in 1909.

WESTMINSTER, CO-New Jersey investors Gerald and Paul Bedrin pay just $84.45 per sf for the shopping center at 9100-90 Wadsworth Blvd., 95% leased at the time of sale.

DENVER-Development interest is seen after a hiatus, according to Mike Rinner of the Genesis Group, with a focus on transit-oriented developments along light rail lines.

DENVER-The area hotel market recovers from 2003, the worst year in almost a decade, according to Robert S. Benton & Associates' latest Rocky Mountain Lodging Report.

BROOMFIELD, CO-Current zoning allows for 12 million sf of commercial space at the Anthem development to be built by other commercial developers to bolster a residential community built by Pulte and its subsidiary, Del Webb.

BROOMFIELD, CO-Current zoning allows for 12 million sf of commercial space at the Anthem development to be built by other commercial developers to bolster a residential community built by Pulte and its subsidiary, Del Webb.

DENVER-Sacramento-based Panattoni Development Co. LLC agrees to buy the 100-acre campus along Interstate 70 with one million sf of warehouse, retail and office space, much of which the luggage company will lease back.