Just over two years after forming his development firm, Bill Mosher is merging the company with national powerhouse Trammell Crow Co.
Mosher, 55, who formed Mosher Sullivan Development Partners LLC, will lead Trammell Crow’s development and investment group. The three other members of Mosher Sullivan also will join Trammell Crow: partner Mike Sullivan, senior project manager Britt Marie Thibodeau and project manager Tina Lashbrook.
One of the Denver’s most prominent developers, Mosher brings more than 30 years of experience to Trammell Crow, in both the public and private arenas. Before starting Mosher Sullivan, he was owner and president of Mile High Development, where he managed nearly $500 million in real-estate projects. He also served for nearly 10 years as president of the Downtown Denver Partnership.
The merger gives Mosher the opportunity to develop projects on a national level, as well as expand into retail development.
“It also brings us capital opportunities we don’t have,” he said.
Dallas-based Trammell Crow has more than $6 billion in development projects underway and in the pipeline nationally. Its clients include ING Clarion, Kennedy Associates, Principal Global Investors and Morgan Stanley.
The addition of Mosher’s team will give Trammell Crow, mainly active in Denver’s suburbs, a stronger urban presence, said Ann Sperling, Trammell Crow’s senior managing director in Denver. Locally, the company’s projects include the Louisiana Station Lofts, which will be rebuilt after they were destroyed by fire this year as they neared completion, and the Hampden Town Center at the Dayton Street light-rail station.
Mosher will complete the projects he is working on, including the 318,000-square- foot corporate headquarters for the Denver Newspaper Agency, due to open this year at Broadway and Colfax Avenue. He also will continue as chief executive of the Denver Convention Center Hotel Authority until all construction of the project is completed.
One of Mosher’s projects that Trammell Crow could get involved in is the redevelopment of Smiley’s Laundromat, which he and partners Triton Investment Co. and Bow River Capital Partners purchased last summer. The site could include 50 to 100 housing units above about 15,000 square feet of ground-floor retail on slightly more than an acre at East Colfax Avenue and Downing Street.
Staff writer Margaret Jackson can be reached at 303-820-1473 or mjackson@denverpost.com.
