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WSJ: Billionaire wants land swap

Billionaire William Koch, founder and president of the Oxbow Group, an energy company, wants to swap land with the federal government in order to take control of a road that cuts into his 4,500-acre ranch in western Colorado, according to an article in today’s Wall Street Journal, Land Swap Triggers Colorado Dustup.

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WSJ: Hard to finance odd homes in Colorado

“People like us that want to build these types of homes – we’re basically at the mercy of the mortgage companies,” Wayne [...]

WSJ: Boulder finds it's not easy going green

An article about Boulder’s struggle to go green  was on the front page of today’s Wall Street Journal. This is what Roger Pilke Jr., who studies political response to climate change at the University of Colorado at Boulder had to say about the city’s efforts to go green: “If a place like Boulder that regards [...]

WSJ: $47 million asking price for Snowmass mansion

“I just want to downsize,” Karen Davidson, why she is selling her Snowmass Village home, priced at $47 million, as quoted in the Wall Street [...]

WSJ: Homeowners who can afford mortgages, increasingly walking away

Borrowers who can pay and weren’t deceived by lenders, have a moral responsibility to pay their mortgages, George Brenkert, a Georgetown professor of business ethics told the Wall Street [...]

NREL wants to raise the environmental bar with its new green office

“Energy drives the design,” Rich von Luhrte, president of RNL, quoted in the Wall Street [...]

Denver housing score well for price changes, foreclosures

“We are not out of the woods completely yet, but a lot of our indicators in the residential market seem to suggest that we are seeing a firming up activity, and, hopefully soon we will see a much better and more positive range of prices and some modest appreciation.” Patty [...]

Libeskind plans 30-home project

Architect Danield Libeskind, who  designed the addition to the Denver Art Museum and the adjacent Museum Residences in downtown Denver, in 2007 had plans to design a $125 million condo project in the mountain town of Edwards.

But the developer pulled the plug on the controversial, modern tower because of the economy.

How, Libeskind, who in 2002,  [...]

WSJ: Loan modification programs not working

Although a federal program has helped 500,000 homeowners across the country facing foreclosure modify their mortgages, a report was released today saying the current programs in place will not help the next wave of foreclosures caused by job losses.

The Home Affordable Modification Program, or HAMP, wasn’t designed to deal with the new round of foreclosures [...]

Aspen home features "Mountain Zen"

In case you missed it, last week the Wall Street Journal profiled this Aspen  home owned by Novell Inc chairman Rick Crandall. He spent $1 million on his driveway that includes a 28-foot-high retaining wall and a million pounds of moss rock from Utah, as well as a totem pole.

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