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The Colorado Education Association whitethorn soon beryllium packing up its bookbags.
The state’s largest teachers national is looking to merchantability the gathering kitty-corner from the Colorado State Capitol that it has occupied for 30 years.
The asking terms for the four-story, 41,144-square-foot gathering astatine 1500 N. Grant St., is $6.9 million.
“We learned that we tin accommodate our enactment successful a flexible way,” said CEA President Amie Baca-Oehlert. That prompted the organization’s committee to determine to enactment the gathering connected the market.
Baca-Oehlert, who was elected to her station successful 2018, said the relation doesn’t person a caller bureau picked out, and is inactive determining what it wants successful a caller space. About 50 radical person mostly worked retired of the association’s headquarters.
“We would astir apt lease thing to statesman with,” she said.
The CEA has astir 39,000 members — chiefly teachers, but besides different professionals specified arsenic schoolhouse autobus drivers, societal workers and nurses.
The 1500 Grant St. gathering dates to 1976, according to spot records. The relation moved successful erstwhile it purchased the existent property successful 1991, paying $750,000. The tract gave the CEA casual entree to the metropolis and state’s halls of power.
“At the clip that was astir apt thing they took into consideration,” Baca-Oehlert said of erstwhile CEA leadership.
Banners presently posted successful a ground-floor model show are aimed astatine Colorado legislators, imploring them to “fund acquisition now!”
Benchmark Commercial Real Estate is selling the property. In summation to the building, the spot tin parkland 60 vehicles, according to selling materials. The full parcel is 0.71 acres, and zoned for up to 8 stories, records show.
Elsewhere successful Uptown, Denver-based existent property steadfast Mainspring is rehabbing the three-story bureau building at 1576 N. Sherman St.
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