Battery621 home for eclectic group of commercial tenants.

• Author: Peterson, Eric
• Position: REAL ESTATE

AT THE CORNER OF 6TH AVENUE AND KALAMATH STREET IN Denver sat a forlorn-looking former lighting store, abandoned for the better part of a decade. Enter Mike Arzt and Frank Phillips, partners in The Public Works, a cutting-edge snowsports-oriented creative agency based in Evergreen, and Jason and Ellen Winkler of Wink Inc., a snowsports-oriented video production company in Jackson Hole, Wyo.

A year and oodles of elbow grease later, that formerly forlorn building was reborn in fall 2010 as Batlery621, a slickly renovaied structure that's undoubtedly one of the hippest office spaces on the Front. Range. "It's the Santa Fe Art District meets corporate commercial art," Arzt says. "It's a nice juxtaposition of fine art and creative companies."

The Wink-Public Works pairing reinvented the 30,000-square-foot building as a headquarters with a wide range of like-minded tenants, including snowsports manufacturers like Spyder - the Boulder outerwear maker has a 9,300-square-fool showroom here -- and Icelantic Skis, as well as a number of creative companies with one foot in the action-sports world. Singular desks are also available to individuals.

Just a year after opening, the vacancy rate is just about zero, Arzt says. "As we were filling die last spaces, we were interviewing tenants more than the other way around," he says. "There's a great energy."

Jason Winkler says Wink Inc. was looking...