One of Denver’s most significant historic civic buildings, Columbia Group and its partners purchased the Evans School in late 2019.  This 52,000 square foot building in the Golden Triangle neighborhood was originally an elementary school and had been vacant for nearly fifty years.  The building has been fully redeveloped and opened in the spring of 2025. Evans School, also known as Schoolhouse, now hosts two restaurants, an expansive event space, and retail and office tenants. The redevelopment was recently given a State Honor Award by Colorado Preservation, Inc.

In the mid 2000’s Columbia Group acquired a series of buildings known as the Rocky Mountain Seed Buildings in Lower Downtown Denver.

After successfully renovating the two historic buildings, Columbia Group built a new building on an existing surface parking lot. Both the historic buildings and the new building have won several awards, including a Mayor’s Design Award, a Downtown Denver Partnership Award, a Urban Land Institute Award, and a National Award from the American Institute of Architects (AIA). These fully occupied buildings were sold to an investor in 2018.

Columbia Group purchased this historic grocery building in the Baker neighborhood in 2015. At the time it housed a convenience store which sold single cigarettes and malt liquor. The building was completely redeveloped following extensive neighborhood engagement and a successful rezoning. It was leased to one of Colorado’s first black-owned breweries and operated as a coffee shop in the mornings and a taproom later in the day. In 2026 the building was sold to the long-time tenants, ensuring the viability of a beloved neighborhood institution and small business.

In 2018 Columbia Group purchased a building at 38th and York Streets in the Clayton neighborhood of Denver. Originally part of Army Medical Depot, a complex of buildings constructed during the Second World War, it was designed by one of Denver’s most significant architects, Temple Buell.

Columbia Group repositioned the existing building to focus on nonprofit and local small business tenants.  A portion of the land which was acquired with the property was sold to a local arts nonprofit, Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop, and Fred oversaw the construction of their new headquarters on the site.  Columbia Group is working on entitlements for an additional site to enable the development of Colorado’s first LGBTQ+ senior affordable housing.

This 36,000 sq. ft. Lower Downtown building was purchased in 1985 and was vacant at closing. Jerry condominiumized the building and sold two floors for residential and, later, office use, while retaining the lower three floors and the basement for offices.

In 1993 Columbia Group purchased, in partnership with the Denver Housing Authority (DHA), a vacant building at 15th and Blake Streets in Lower Downtown.

Columbia Group condominiumized the building into two units: a thirty ­three-unit income-restricted affordable housing project co­-owned with DHA and ground floor retail spaces. In 2020, Columbia Group sold its interest in the residential portion of the building to DHA.

In the fall of 2018, Columbia Group joined City Street Investors to develop a new 34,000 square foot office and retail building in the Highlands neighborhood in Denver. The project was completed in 2001.