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James L. Kurtz-Phelan |
Education: University of Texas at El Paso, B.B.A., 1968 with honors Admitted: Colorado Place and Year of Birth: El Paso, Texas, 1946 Practice Areas: Real Estate Contact Information: P: 303-592-8323 |
Mr. Kurtz-Phelan obtained his Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 1972. Mr. Kurtz-Phelan taught at the University of Denver College of Law for three years, handled land use and transportation matters as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Colorado for four years, and spent three years as the legal advisor to the Governor of the State of Colorado. Mr. Kurtz-Phelan's practice focuses particularly on representing clients before planning commissions, county commissioners, and city councils in seeking development approvals, preparing restrictive covenants and sales contracts for real estate projects, providing legal representation in the purchase, development and sale of commercial projects and large scale residential developments, condominium conversions and providing environmental advice for real estate clients. He has provided environmental representation to a major national home improvement center company for over thirty store sites throughout the Rocky Mountain region. One of the sites in Denver, Colorado included negotiating a prospective purchaser agreement with the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, which allowed the client to redevelop a Superfund site. This site was one of the first projects to reuse a contaminated site approved by the national and state governments. Mr. Kurtz-Phelan also has been involved in a number of residential loft projects in downtown Denver and several first and second home developments in Colorado mountain communities, including the conversion of resort hotels to condominium hotel ownership and the acquisition of three contiguous ranches totaling over 5,000 acres in size. He has handled several hundred real property tax protests since establishing the property tax practice in 1987. Mr. Kurtz-Phelan has written extensively on various topics for the Colorado Lawyer and other publications. In addition to his legal work, Mr. Kurtz-Phelan has provided pro bono representation to charitable organizations in connection with real estate development projects and other charitable activities and has been on the Board of the Jewish Community Center, Herzl Jewish Day School, American Jewish Committee, Anti-Defamation League, and legal organizations, including the Board of Directors of the Real Estate Section of the Colorado Bar Association. AREAS OF PRACTICE |
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