5 Reasons To Attend Bisnow’s Denver Hospitality And Mixed-Use Summit

Denver, the largest city in the Rocky Mountains, continues to be a magnet for tourism and residential development. More than 36 million people visited the Mile High City in 2022, several Fortune 500 companies call the Denver area home, and the city’s population has grown approximately 20% since 2010.

While the region’s momentum has slowed somewhat since the pandemic, Denver continues to be a hot place for commercial real estate development, highlighted by its busy hospitality and mixed-use sectors.

Already home to more than 13,000 hotel rooms, Denver continues to add hospitality properties. The ones scheduled to open in 2024 range from boutique hotels to developments with hundreds of rooms to serve leisure and business travelers. A new entrant to the city's hospitality scene will include the first hotel in the U.S. to remove more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits. 

Denver is also a hotbed for the mixed-used asset class, with developers, architects and contractors creating properties that appeal to today’s preferences for live-work-play environments. These include properties that seamlessly integrate residential with retail, as well as the city’s largest urban infill project, which will include several acres of open space to appeal to residents and visitors.

To take a deep dive into development in the Denver area, Bisnow is hosting its Denver Hospitality and Mixed-Use Summit on May 21 at the McNichols Building in Civic Center Park.

Register here for the event.

There are plenty of reasons to attend, and Bisnow has compiled a list of the top five for your consideration:

1. Hear more about that pioneering carbon-neutral hotel from the event’s keynote speaker, Jon Buerge, president of Urban Villages, the developer of Populus. The Studio Gang-designed building is being called a “new and iconic landmark” for the city.

2. Network with some of the top developers, owners and decision-makers in the Denver commercial real estate scene. These will include Lisa Waldron, vice president and managing director of development for Hilton; Shervin Rashidi, developer of Kindred Resort, Keystone; and Sean Campbell, CEO and principal of Formativ.

3. Learn how to make your mixed-use development stand out with insights from participants on the Live, Work, Play: Principles for Effective Mixed–Use Development panel.

4. Discover what makes a successful mountain resort development from the experts on the Hospitality in the High Country panel.

5. Enjoy springtime in Denver! The mild weather of May is one of the best times to explore the many things to do in Denver.

Don’t miss your opportunity to make new contacts and learn more about hospitality and mixed-use trends in the region. Register here for the Denver Hospitality and Mixed-Use Summit.