Condominium & Planned Community

Legal strategies for condominium developers

Today’s condominium market faces many challenges—from changing construction defect laws to complex common interest ownership acts. Brownstein’s team uses extensive experience and knowledge to guide you through this multifaceted and fluctuating real estate product.

Brownstein’s cross-functional team of real estate attorneys, litigators and policy professionals provide the comprehensive counsel condominium and planned community developers need to navigate this asset class. Our legal team handle due diligence, negotiations of construction contracts, financing and any pre- or post- closing disputes that might arise. In tandem with our legal counsel, our policy professionals are at the forefront of the ever changing regulatory environment related to construction defects law and affordable housing. This allows our team to create the most effective and efficient legal and policy strategies to advocate on your behalf, while also proactively mitigating potential issues before they become full-blown problems.

Keeping Denver’s Downtown Core Thriving

To keep up with Denver’s rapid population growth and demand in the downtown core, infill development is booming. When ZBlock Holdings, a joint venture, sought to transform an unappealing parking lot and rundown historical building—the former Windsor Dairy Block—in Denver’s transportation district, Brownstein’s Real Estate team was chosen to lead this complex redevelopment project. The team drew on significant experience shaping historic developments across the west to negotiate financing, create leases, and draft hundreds of documents to make the project a reality. Today, Dairy Block is a thriving mixed-use development featuring 260,000 square feet of office space, a 172-room hotel, 60,000 square feet of retail as well as restaurant space and a parking garage.