INTEGRAL TO OUR SUCCESS "She had the financial, private and public sector experience to help the Denver Dry project work. Marilee Utter understands how transportation and mixed used development come together to make clients work." - Jonathan Rose, CEO, Affordable Housing Development Corporation, Katonah, New York

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• Masterplanned 165 acre industrial railyard for 6+ million square feet of mixed-use development resulting in largest downtown PUD ever issued by the City of Denver. Oversaw environmental clean-up, land swaps, land acquisitions and sales to create an award-winning new neighborhood and premium land values.
• Led conceptual design of mixed-use, passenger inter-modal facility at Denver's historic Union Station.
• Planned and zoned commercial uses surrounding the station to further support the facility.

• Development Advisor to the City of Englewood, enabling them to act as master developer in the transformation of a failed 55 acre mall to a 1,000,000 square foot, mixed-use village, and the region's first major transit-oriented development.
• Retained and managed design team, determined development feasibility.
• Led efforts to identify a redevelopment strategy for financially strapped community.
• Negotiated with developers for sale/lease of specific parcels.
• Secured additional funds from the Regional Transportation District to make project viable.

3. Denver Dry
    Denver, Colorado
    Owner's Representative

• Developer's representative for $15 million redevelopment of failed 350,000 square foot downtown department store into mixed-use project including both affordable and market rate housing, multi-level retail and office users.

• Hired and managed consultant team to plan regional intermodal center and surrounding development of over 2 million square foot on 30 acres of Federal Center property.
• Initiated governanance structure leading to ownership and implementation through a new not-for-profit development authority.
• Coordinated integration of station plans into Corridor Environmental Impact Study.
• Led selection and management of consultant team.
• Worked with adjacent property owners, City Council, and potential developers to determine implementation triggers and strategy over time.

• In an unusual effort to help two small towns devastated by tornados, formulated FEMA's economic and real estate strategy to completely rebuild the downtown core of both communities.
• Secured federal grants for redevelopment planning.

• Worked with planning team to determine feasibility of transportation oriented development on an 11 acre, multi-owner parcel at a key station on the T-Rex Interstate expansion project.
• Led efforts to bring property owners together to collaborate on mixed-use project.
• Identified private developer to act as master developer to pull project together.

• Worked collaboratively with City of Denver, Denver Urban Renewal Authority, and local property owners to determine a transportation oriented development implementation strategy on one of region's densest and most complex urban stations.
• Led efforts to evaluate market studies and project financial performance to insure project viability and compliance with financial development programs, transit and parking requirements, and market dynamics.
• Worked with developers and various public agencies to move strategic development agenda forward.

• Established City's first Office of Asset Management responsible for leasing, acquisitions, dispositions, development of City real estate.
• Created first comprehensive inventory of over 3000 City properties with ranking system to guide use and investments.
• Directed strategic plan for housing City agencies.
• Helped build convention center, ballpark, airport, performing arts center in major economic development effort.