DENVER-McClain Finlon Advertising likes nice surroundings, moving into a former warehouse that has just undergone a $4.5-million makeover into an office. Unique features, once a topic in the Wall Street Journal's "Workplace" column, have been transferred to the new site.

DENVER-As construction winds down, CarrAmerica Development Inc. has signed a 93,000-sf tenant to its first phase of the 75-acre, master-planned office campus that ultimately will bring 1 million sf to the region. AT&T Broadband will occupy the entire structure

DENVER- The Denver Hispanic Chamber of Commerce has snagged another accolade, this time being named the nation's top Hispanic chamber. The stiff competition for the national title had included San Diego, Milwaukee, Dallas and San Juan, Puerto Rico chambers.

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO-A Newport Beach, CA-based luxury homebuilder is taking an infamous Colorado property off the hands of its Saudi Arabian owner. The deal isn't expected to close until third quarter 2001.

DENVER-A co-housing project is being undertaken in Denver, where Boulder-based Wonderland Hill Development Co. has broken ground for the metro's first such project. There are 45 such communities in the US and six in Canada.

DENVER-The Colorado Housing and Finance Authority will kick in $8.5 million toward the purchase and rehabilitation of East Village, a low-income apartment complex, east of Denver's CBD. The bottom-line, with rehabilitation, totals $14.5 million.

AURORA, CO-Mercado Juarez, which bills itself as the largest Mexican grocery store in the state, has opened doors in Aurora, the second-largest city in the Denver area. A shopping center renovation and parking lot upgrade go along with the takeover.

DENVER-In an expansion into seven markets, the Los Angeles-based House of Blues is heading to Denver. Also being ticketed for new blues houses are Dallas, San Diego, San Jose, CA., Anaheim, CA., Austin and Kansas City, MO.