DENVER-Chip Clarke, 39, has overseen the Mountain region for Transwestern Commercial Services, having opened offices for the company here as well as Salt Lake City. He now oversees a Southwest region and a 7.5-million-sf portfolio.

DENVER-A landmark 39,000-sf building on 1.73 acres in the historic Congress Park neighborhood is being auctioned by Chicago-based Sheldon Good & Co. next month as the Archdiocese of Denver merges two campuses of the Good Shepherd Catholic Church and School.

DENVER-Local restaurateur Steve Naples now has three Heidi's Brooklyn Deli locations, his most recent being just south of the $1-billion mixed-used redevelopment of the Gates rubber plant.

DENVER-Shaquille O'Neal tells GlobeSt.com, "My goal is to eventually own $1 billion in affordable housing. Free and clear." Backed by Portland, ME-based American Housing Preservation Corp., he starts with a $100 million, 1,407-unit deal in Colorado.

DENVER-Elke Heuer, trustee for Heuer Trust, pays $54,545 per unit for the Cherry Creek Abbey rental property at at 911 S. Dahlia St., which Colorado Springs-based Homburg Holdings Inc. picked up for $1.65 million.

DENVER-Single-family home prices continue to rise as investors look for safer havens than the stock market, but multifamily condominiums sell for an average of $167,798, down from the record $171,200 in June.

DENVER-Vacancies have hit 9.3%, nearly double the rate of two years ago and 3.6 percentage points higher than it was a year ago. However, average rents are now going up, according to a report by the Apartment Association of Metropolitan Denver.

DENVER-Dyer Brothers Construction plans to build on 13.5 acres a retail center anchored by a 50,409-sf Albertson's grocery at Main Street and Jordan Road. Completion of Olde Towne Crossing is slated for fall 2003.