DENVER-Vicorp Restaurant stock has surged with a recent $174 million in cash offer to buy out the 256-eatery portfolio. The purchaser is an investor group that wants to take the Denver-based restaurateur private.

DENVER-The US Postal Service is looking for a taker for its 406,309-sf annex that's strategically positioned in the highly coveted LoDo submarket. It's definitely the most important building to hit that submarket's for sale list, say the brokers.

ASPEN, CO-The Ritz-Carlton is getting all decked out for its grand opening Saturday. The time-share venue serves as the centerpiece to a $230-million, mixed-use development by Houston-based Hines Resort Development.

WESTMINSTER, CO-First Industrial has capped construction on a four-building project that's available any way a contract can be sealed. Buy one, buy all or lease them is the way brokers are approaching the marketing effort.

DENVER-The local NAIOP chapter has unveiled this year's award winners. Jack Box, president and CEO of Denver-based Frederick Ross Co., snags the President's Award while the Etkin Johnson Group is named owner-developer of the year.

BRECKENRIDGE, CO-The Environmental Protection Agency appears poised to give its blessing to a $500-million expansion plan for two peaks. Vail Resorts has unveiled an ambitious plan that includes a large-scale, 148-unit grand lodge.

DENVER-A plan to convert an existing jail into the state's largest halfway house most likely will meet stiff competition from its neighbors in the favored Golden Triangle. A city official says the re-do makes a lot of sense, but neighborhood input is welcome.

DENVER-Colorado Access is adding more space, more employees come fall when it relocates to Two Denver Highlands in the city's southeast corridor. The 66,800-sf pact is one of the largest leases inked for the sector in quite awhile.