DENVER-The architectural/engineering consulting firm signs an 11-year deal at MCI Tower at 707 17th St., an asset owned by Fort Worth, TX-based Crescent Real Estate. Carter & Burgess is Crescent's largest tenant in Fort Worth.

FORT COLLINS, CO-The 61,831-sf shopping center on 2.77 acres at 420-60 S. College Ave. is anchored by a Safeway. Greg Benjamin, vice president of NorthMarq's Denver office, arranges financing for BoReal Builders.

LAKEWOOD, CO-The 40,217-sf, state-of-the art X Games Skatepark is part of the 1.2 million-sf Colorado Mills, which opens in this city 10 miles west of Downtown Denver next month.

DENVER-With concessions hitting the class B and class C portions of the multifamily rental market, a slowdown in building is seen as a positive for a market that saw overbuilding in 2000 and 2001.

AURORA, CO-According to CB Richard Ellis' latest numbers, the Aurora office market is more or less stable, with both the direct and sublease vacancy rates rising only slightly in the third quarter of 2002.

DENVER-Locally based ProLogis, the world's largest industrial real estate investment trust, has leased 283,500 sf of distribution space in southern France to a logistics company.

DENVER-One of the nation's leading apartment REITs, the locally based Archstone-Smith, has tapped J. Lindsay Freeman to be its new chief operating officer.

DENVER-Pinnacol Assurance, Colorado's leading provider of workers' compensation insurance, has moved to its new headquarters at the former Lowry Air Force Base.