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Here's what the huge planned Starwood development wants to do next.

An observant visitor to the recently updated Hotel Monaco in downtown Denver might spot a number of subtle touches in its halls and rooms meant as homages to Colorado’s rich natural resources. In the absence of such a keen eye, though, a guided tour sure helps.

On a recent afternoon, the Monaco‘s general manager, Sandy Burkett, pointed out several of those touches: a color pallet and carpet and wallpaper patterns that reference the various minerals found beneath the Colorado soil and hallway lighting fixtures modeled after miners’ lamps.

The details were added as part of a $6 million renovation competed at the hotel in March. All 189 rooms in the former railway exchange building-turned-hotel at 1717 Champa St. were overhauled.

“We gutted it. New carpet, new pad, new furniture,” Burkett said.

The Denver metro area is home to more hotel options than ever. Many of them, like the dazzling ART Hotel on Broadway and chic new Ramble Hotel in nearby RiNo compete for the type of experience-..

If you've been thinking about nominating your commercial real estate project, deal, developer or dealmaker for the 2018 Structures Awards, now's the time to take action. The deadline for nominations is June 8.

The program will recognize the the best in Central Florida real estate.

To be nominated, the deal or project must have been announced, transaction completed or construction started between June 2017 and June 2018, and it must be in Central Florida (Orange, Osceola, Seminole or Lake counties).…

The 2019 funding package will try to chart a path forward for the market that addresses some of the tenants’ concerns.

The report notes that when the last major office building, the 380,000-square-foot First Hawaiian Center, was delivered to market 22 years ago, it added about 150,000 square feet of net inventory to the market.

The company has a lease in Centre Square, which is commonly referred to as the 'Clothes Pin Building', until 2020.

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This week, the Kansas City Business Journal ranks the area's biggest general contractors.

The accompanying gallery shows the top five on The List, ranked by local billings. For the full List, subscribers can take a look at the weekly print edition of the Kansas City Business Journal. The List also includes address, phone number, local billings for 2017, local billings for 2016, number of local full-time-equivalent employees and top local executive. (Subscribers also can view the Largest General…

Living in a low-risk state gives us peace of mind, but it also can save us some money when it comes to the cost of homeowners insurance.