Wide view of the opening-day block party at The Kestrel on Colfax: a calm stretch of closed avenue and trees on the left, long tables of neighbors under string lights and white food tents in the middle, and the new six-story rust brick corner building with dark-framed windows, balconies and an umbrella-shaded restaurant patio filling the right

Community commitments

What we owe every block we build on.

Four commitments, written into our entitlement filings and reported to the city quarterly. Every project since Alta Alameda has carried all four.

The four commitments

Not aspirations. Filing conditions.

Affordable homes in every project

84 deed-restricted homes at 60% AMI across the portfolio.

Affordability is not a concession we negotiate down — it is written into our entitlement filings before they are submitted. Sixty deed-restricted homes are already delivered and occupied at Alta Alameda and The Kestrel on Colfax, rented at 60% of area median income with the same finishes, the same floors and the same front door as every other home in the building. Twenty-four more open at Sloan’s Corner in April 2027, bringing the portfolio to 84.

60 delivered · 24 opening 2027

Denver hires the build

At least 40% of construction labor hours go to Denver residents.

On every active site, a minimum of 40% of construction labor hours are worked by Denver-resident tradespeople. The figure is tracked by our general contractor against payroll records, verified by our team, and reported to the city quarterly. At Sloan’s Corner, where the frame topped out in February 2026, the program also pairs apprentices from Denver trade schools with journeyman crews on site.

40% minimum, tracked against payroll

Local businesses at street level

No national-chain anchors. Ever.

Every ground-floor bay in all six buildings is leased to a Denver operator — a family grocer at Alta Alameda, a 12-bay food hall at The Mercantile, a chef-owned corner restaurant at The Kestrel, cafes and a day-care in between. Every ground floor has been fully leased by opening day since 2013, so the street works from the day the building opens.

100% locally operated ground floors

Public space we maintain

Built at our cost, maintained by us for ten years.

Corner plazas, sidewalk gardens and streetscape improvements are part of every project budget — and so is their upkeep. We maintain each one for ten years after ribbon cutting: snow clearing, planting, lighting and repairs. The plaza at The Kestrel hosts its neighborhood’s events; the publicly accessible corner plaza at Sloan’s Corner, facing the lake, opens with the building in 2027.

10 years of maintenance, guaranteed

Design workshops

The neighborhood is in the room before the city is.

Before we file a single entitlement document, we hold at least two public design workshops in the neighborhood itself — a school gym, a church hall, a brewery on the block. We bring the massing model, the ground-floor plan and the traffic study, and we take notes that change the drawings.

These are working sessions, not presentations. Residents mark up plans, vote on ground-floor uses and tell us what the corner actually needs. What comes out of those rooms goes into the filing — which is why the commitments on this page read like conditions, not promises.

Workshop outcome · 2017

The Alta Alameda affordability agreement

Neighbors asked for homes their own kids could rent. The deed-restricted affordability agreement written in those workshops became the template every project since has carried — 84 homes at 60% AMI and counting.

Workshop outcome · 2024

The Sloan’s Corner public plaza

West Highland residents wanted the lake corner kept open, not walled off. The publicly accessible plaza now under construction came straight out of the second workshop — and we will maintain it for ten years after opening.

We report all of this to the city, quarterly.

Local-hire labor hours, affordable-home occupancy, ground-floor tenancy and public-space maintenance are compiled into a quarterly compliance report filed with the City and County of Denver for every active commitment. The same figures go to our investors in their quarterly reports — one set of numbers, two audiences, no gap between them.

Community partnerships

Talk to Priya Raman.

Priya is our Director of Community Partnerships. She runs the neighborhood workshop process, the affordability agreements and the local-hire program on every active site. If you are a neighbor, a neighborhood organization or a city partner, she is your first call — and she answers.

Priya Raman

Director of Community Partnerships

community@kestrelandpike.com

(303) 959-2140

Upcoming design workshops are announced to the neighborhood by mail and posted on site fencing at least two weeks ahead.