Everest has razed a 147,000-sf former office building on the site west of Interstate 25 between Belleview and Orchard roads at 7677 E. Berry Ave. It will be near a new T-Rex light-rail station that opens next year. The office building had been the headquarters for the Stone & Webster engineering firm before it sold it to TeleTech Holdings, a giant call center company that never occupied the building. Instead, TeleTech sold the facility for a loss and moved into what had been the world headquarters of AT&T Broadband. AT&T later sold to Comcast.

In addition to 250 condos between two identical towers, construction will begin this month on 150,000 sf of retail space at the community, says Tom King, marketing director for Everest. Also, sales are so strong at the first tower that early construction details are being worked out for the second residential building, he says. Retail will include a spa and a gourmet deli.

Everest sold 106 units in a one-day sales event, selling $55 million in condos in a day, believed to be a record for the metro area. Since then, it has sold about another eight units. Jonathan Keiler of RE/MAX Classic Homes, who is co-listing the units, says he expects them to be all sold out in about two weeks. Units range in size from 875 sf to 2,500 sf and are priced from about $271,000 to about $1.2 million.