Units are priced from almost $350,000 to about $1.2 million. "Ifwe had sold 10, we would have been very pleased," George Thorn,principal of Mile High Development tells GlobeSt.com. Mile High,along with Corporex Colorado, is developing the units. Libeskindalso is designing the addition to the Denver Art Museum. The condosare behind the museum, wrapped around a new parking lot.

"These are sales, not reservations, like you would typicallyfind when you're selling condos," Thorn tells GlobeSt.com. "We'reselling them all at the asking price. We're not coming down onecent. And we're selling them across the board, not just thelower-priced ones or the higher-priced ones."

He says buyers are coming from Evergreen in the mountains, LoDoin Downtown, and from empty nesters in ritzy areas such as CherryHills. Even some singles from the Golden Triangle neighborhood,where the units are located, have bought some of the smaller units."One guy was jogging with his dog and saw the sign, tied up his dogand came in and bought a unit," Thorn says.

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