SALIDA, CO-Multifamily rental mogul C. Robert Nicolls II, who also is co-owner of the 100-room Monarch Lodge, is part of a team looking to buy Monarch Ski area southwest of Denver for $5 million, $1.5 million less than Los Angeles-based investor Goodwin Gaw and Melvin Choo of Hong Kong paid in 1996.

AURORA, CO-The city has put out a "request for qualifications and concepts" for the 16-acre site at East Colfax Avenue and Peoria Street, next to the $1-billion Fitzsimons medical and bio-tech campus.

DENVER-Former Denver mayor Benjamin Stapleton rejected the Ku Klux Klan in 1925, and had the airport he helped bring to the city named after him. However, Forest City officials are downsizing his name in brochures and signs.

DENVER-Holden Market Support Services gets a warm welcome from the city on its decision to expand a center at 5000 Lima St. in anticipation of a larger payroll over the next three years.

DENVER-Developers Diversified Realty Corp. gets $107.50 per sf for Broadway Marketplace at Alameda Avenue and South Broadway. GMS Realty LLC of Carlsbad, CA adds the asset to a portfolio that already includes Southwest Commons and Kipling Plaza.

DENVER-James D. Rosenberg comes to the company's Charles E. Smith division from Winston Hotels, Inc., where he had overall operational responsibility for the company's $500-million portfolio.

DENVER-A Washington, D.C.-based hotel and college baseball league owner has bought a long-defunct ski resort near Denver, but he has no immediate plans to redevelop it.

DENVER-The City of Denver wants a convention hotel, and it has decided that it wants buy land from Bruce Berger to put it on. Negotiations will be under way soon.