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COLORADO REAL ESTATE JOURNAL
— June 1-June 14, 2016
Keith Hayes, AIA, LEED
AP BD+C,
was named
Barker
Rinker Seacat Architecture’s
chief financial officer.
In this role, Hayes will guide
the firm’s financial strategy
and planning. Chuck Mus-
grave, AIA, the firm’s previous
CFO, remains with the firm
and has shifted his focus to
project management and client
care.
Hayes has been with the
firm since 1995 and became a
principal in 1999. He has more
than 25 years of experience
designing public architecture,
including community and
recreation centers, municipal
office buildings, visitor centers
and schools.
As CFO, Hayes is one of the
members of the management
team guiding the planning and
implementation of the firm’s
financial strategy, as well as
supporting project managers
on project budgets.
He has a Bachelor of Envi-
ronmental Design from
the University of Colorado
Boulder and a Master of
Architecture from the Uni-
versity of Washington. Hayes
is a LEED Accredited Profes-
sional for Building Design and
Construction.
s
Robert Botts Jr.
joined
Stin-
son Leonard Street LLP
as a
partner in
the banking
and financial
services divi-
sion at the
law firm. He
will practice
in the firm’s
Denver
office.
Botts came
to the firm
after serving as the managing
member of a Denver area firm.
Botts counsels clients in sales
and acquisitions of businesses,
commercial transactions, cor-
porate compliance, mining, oil
and gas, real estate, commercial
finance and lending.
He has extensive experience
in drafting and negotiating
contracts including: partner-
ship agreements; joint venture
agreements; limited liability
company operating agree-
ments; stock purchase agree-
ments; real estate agreements;
service agreements; license
agreements; royalty agree-
ments; surface use agreements;
loan and security agreements;
and other domestic and inter-
national commercial contracts.
Botts is certified by the
National Association of Devel-
opment Companies to provide
legal counsel to certified devel-
opment companies regarding
the Small Business Administra-
tion 504 loan program. He also
works with emerging busi-
nesses from the startup stage to
established operating entities
and acts as outside general
counsel for several privately
held companies.
Botts earned his Juris Doc-
tor from Creighton University
School of Law.
s
Susan Massey
and
Linnaea
Stuart
joined the offices of
Boulder- and Denver-based
Arch11.
Massey, LEED AP, has a
Bachelor of Science in architec-
ture from the
University
of Virginia
and a dual
Master of
Architecture
and Master
of Science in
Architecture
History/The-
ory from the
University of
Michigan. After receiving her
undergraduate degree, Massey
practiced for seven years in
the Washington, D.C., office of
a global architecture firm and
during that time received her
LEED AP qualification and
spent her weekends as a docent
at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
A native Mississippian, she
returned to the South, where
she joined Auburn University’s
design-build Rural Studio.
Following graduate school,
Massey became a Fulbright
Scholar to Australia. There she
researched environmentally
sustainable housing policies
and practiced for 12 months
before spending the next sev-
eral years at RMIT University
in Melbourne teaching design
studios, theory, communica-
tions and construction in both
the Architecture and Land-
scape Architecture programs.
Massey is based in the firm’s
Boulder office and is currently
working on a major renovation
of a lakeside cottage to enhance
its views and reduce its energy
footprint to net zero. Her
responsibilities also include
the conversion of a commercial
property in downtown Boulder
into a duplex along with new
workplace interiors for Soma
Logic.
A licensed architect and
LEED Accredited Professional
with a Master of Architecture
II from Harvard’s Graduate
School of Design, Stuart recent-
ly joined the architecture firm
from Boston. Her prior experi-
ences include both design and
construction collaborations
with the renowned architec-
ture offices of Renzo Piano
Building Workshop and David
Adjaye Associates, where she
worked on
such cultural
landmarks as
the Whitney
Museum of
American
Art in New
York City,
the Ethelbert
Cooper
Gallery of
African
American Art in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, and the Princ-
eton University Theological
Seminary Library in Princeton,
New Jersey.
Stuart’s recent projects in the
firm’s Denver office include
a 13,000-square-foot home in
Steamboat Springs that will
feature the homeowners’ col-
lection of modern art. At the
other end of the spectrum,
Stuart also is involved in the
design of the “Bluff house,” an
efficient, modern home for a
young couple in Boulder.
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The
American Council of
Engineering Companies of
Colorado
announced the fol-
lowing new 2016-17 board offi-
cers:
Elizabeth Stolfus, PE,
of
Stolfus and Associates Inc. will
serve as president;
Nancy Clan-
ton, PE,
of Clanton & Asso-
ciates Inc. will serve as vice
Who’s News
Robert Botts Jr.
Susan Massey
Linnaea Stuart
by Jennifer Hayes
Surf and turf: Not just
lobster and steak but also an
apropos description of Mitch
Trevey’s career.
Trevey, managing direc-
tor and owner of real estate
brokerage firm Trevey Land
and Commercial, is a land
and commercial property
broker with nearly 20 years’
experience in land broker-
age and development in the
Parker and Douglas County
markets.
However, before Trevey
got into the real estate busi-
ness, he and his brother
founded a seafood distribu-
tion company in Salt Lake
City.
What started as a three-
man firm grew to more than
60 employees, a Denver
headquarters and offices
across the Mountain West
and Midwest by the time
Trevey sold the company 20
years later.
And it was in those 20
years growing and expand-
ing the company that Trevey
got a taste of commercial
real estate, which piqued
his interest in going into the
field.
“I decided I wanted to be
a land broker and was told
I would starve for the first
two years,” laughed Trevey,
who, admits, those first sev-
eral years in the business
were lean.
But in those first years,
Trevey sought to learn all
he could about the land
business – attending every
planning and commissioners
meeting in Douglas County,
Parker and Castle Rock to
truly understand the land
market.
“It was well worth it,” said
Trevey, noting that those
early meetings established
relationships with local and
regional authorities and
developers that continue
today. As a Parker resident
since 1991, Trevey commit-
ted himself to working in
Douglas County to create
and support a vital economy
through commercial real
estate development.
“The Parker market started
out as my primary focus;
why would I drive past
opportunities and proper-
ties? I feel that if I take good
care of this market, it will
take care of me,” said Trevey.
After several years cutting
his teeth with John Cavey,
he started his own company
in 2001 before then joining
Land Advisors to estab-
lish its Denver Tech Center
office. He worked with Land
Advisors until the downturn
forced the closing of its Den-
ver division.
With the closing of the
office, Trevey decided to re-
establish Trevey Land and
Commercial.
He restarted his namesake
firm – as the only employee
and working out of his
house – and slowly grew
it not only in terms of indi-
viduals but also in scope to
include development, leas-
ing, land and commercial
sales and property manage-
ment, for example.
“We’re making a difference
in sales and leasing in Park-
er,” said Trevey. “We want
to penetrate all of Douglas
County and be a market spe-
cialist in the southeast Den-
ver market.
“We don’t claim to be a
big house and I don’t want
to be,” he continued. “I have
huge respect for them but
the edge for us is being a
smaller shop, being knowl-
edgeable.”
Being knowledgeable
about the market Trevey
credits with not only his
familiarity with it but his
willingness to continually
learn – be it participating
on a variety of community
boards to listening to clients
and showing respect to those
already in the business.
As for his success, Trevey
notes it comes from a simple
philosophy.
“It’s about treating every cli-
ent the best that you can. It’s
about taking care of the client.
You don’t put your commis-
sions over the client’s needs.”
And his favorite part of the
business? It’s a tie between
ingenuity and individuals.
“The creativity in taking
a vacant ground and going
through the process to see
something go vertical is very
satisfying,” noted Trevey. Just
as satisfying, however, are the
people involved.
“This is a people business.
None of it happens without
people,” said Trevey. “Deals
get done if you put people
first.”
Over his career, Trevey has
worked on a number of sales
and leases, including spear-
heading plans for two parcels
next to town hall to be trans-
formed to a performing arts
center – the PACE Center in
Parker.
Trevey served as president of
the Parker Chamber of Com-
merce, chairman of the board
and then the director for the
Economic Development Coun-
cil and on the operating coun-
cil for Parker Core Knowledge
Charter School. He also is a
member of the Denver Metro-
politan Commercial Associa-
tion of Realtors, the Denver
South Economic Development
Partnership, the International
Council of Shopping Centers
and the Urban Land Institute,
and was awarded the Econom-
ic Development Cornerstone
Award in 2013.
Outside of work, Trevey
is active with Calvary Cha-
pel of Parker, spending time
with his wife, Amy, and their
two sons, ages 11 and 8,
and being a “tennis dad.”
Trevey also has two adult
sons. Additionally, he enjoys
mountain biking, skiing,
exercising and sports cars.
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Profile
Mitch Trevey
‘It’s about
treating
every client
the best that
you can. It’s
about taking
care of the
client. You
don’t put
the commission
over the
client.’
