Gibson, Dunn takes highest floor of new 30-story office tower in Denver

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has taken up the top floor of a new 30-story office tower in Downtown Denver, with a pickleball court overhead.

The international law firm set up shop in 30,600 feet after being the first tenant to ink a deal at the building at 1900 Lawrence Street, in the Central Business District, the Denver Post reported.

Terms of the deal with developers Riverside Investment & Development, Convexity Properties and Canyon Partners Real Estate were not disclosed. The top floor has commanding views of the Front Range, Coors Field and Skyline Park.

“Having established our Denver office more than four decades ago, our move into this new building marks an exciting milestone in our ongoing commitment to Denver and enhances the experience of our employees and clients,” a Gibson Dunn & Crutcher spokesperson told the Post in an email.

The $400 million building was the first in the city designed for LEED-Platinum, WELL-Platinum and WIRED-Platinum certifications. The 710,000-square-foot tower completed last year has a parking garage for 670 cars and 10,000 square feet of ground-floor shops and restaurants.

The glass tower, designed by Goettsch Partners, has 11 private tenant terraces, floor-to-ceiling windows and 29,000- to 31,000-square-foot floorplates.

Highlights include the rooftop pickleball court, outdoor “entertainment space,” meeting and conference rooms, lounge areas, a fitness center and a golf simulator.

The cost of leasing its upper floors, closer to the pickleball courts: $45 per square foot, broker Jamie Roupp of JLL, which manages its leases, said last fall.

Insurance broker Marsh McLennan plans to occupy 12,000 square feet on the 19th floor, while Monfort Companies, a firm specializing in development, private equity and investment management, is also considering leasing offices there, according to the Post.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, a global law firm, has had a Denver office since 1981, serving business clients in the following areas: oil and gas, renewable energy, technology, life sciences, health care, manufacturing, private equity, financial services, travel and leisure and telecommunications.

Riverside Investment & Development, founded in 2010 in Chicago with an office in Denver, has built office towers in Chicago, Denver and Charlotte, North Carolina, according to its website.

Convexity Properties, founded in 2009, is the real estate arm of DRW, a trading firm based in Chicago. Last month, Don Wilson Jr., its founder and CEO, sold his mansion at 16096 Lake Avenue in Union Pier, Michigan, for $7 million in one of the region’s biggest deals of last year.

Canyon Partners Real Estate is a unit of Canyon Partners, a hedge fund founded in Los Angeles in 1990.

— Dana Bartholomew

Correction: This story has been edited to reflect that Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has no headquarters location, but was founded in Los Angeles.