Jim Bolt has participated in an industry-leading number of sale and lease transactions, including the largest single industrial sale transaction in Colorado, a 2.1M SF portfolio sale of Class A industrial. Jim is an 18-time winner of NAIOP’s prestigious Broker of the Year award and Denver Business Journal’s Heavy Hitter in 1994, 1996-2007, and 2009-2017. He has also been the top industrial producer within the Denver CBRE office 26 times and has been the top overall producer in Denver seven times, making him a clearly recognized industry expert. Jim has been in the “Colbert Coldwell Circle” six times, which is a group of the top producers within CBRE internationally. In 2010, Jim received the prestigious NAIOP Outstanding Broker Achievement Award for career achievement.
Education
- University of Colorado, Boulder, Bachelor of Science in Finance
Professional Affiliations / Accreditations
- National Association of Office and Industrial Properties (NAIOP)
- Colorado Association of Realtors (CAR)
- National Association of Realtors (NAR)
- University of Colorado Real Estate Council
- CBRE National Industrial Team & CBRE Global Logistics Group
- CBRE Industrial Advisory Council 2009, 2010, 2011
Achievements
- Colbert Coldwell Circle in 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2014 and 2018 (top 3% of CBRE producers internationally)
- CBRE Top Producer in 2005, 2010-2013 and 2015-2017
- Top Industrial Producer, CBRE, Denver Region (1988, 1991, 1994, 1996-2017)
- #1 Overall Producer, Denver (1996, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2007-2009)
- NAIOP Industrial Broker of the Year (1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002-2011, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018)
- NAIOP Outstanding Broker Achievement Award for career achievement (2010)
- Denver Business Journal #1 Heavy Hitter (1994, 1996-2007, 2009-2014, 2017)
Community Involvement
- Food Bank of the Rockies, Past Board Chairman
- Adams County Food Bank, Board Member
- High Line Canal Conservancy, Board Member
Significant Assignments
- Crow Holdings National Portfolio Sale
2.2 Bil. SF
- Prologis Prudential Joint Venture
2.5 Mil. SF
- The Pauls Portfolio
2.1 Mil. SF
- 6-Building Warehouse Portfolio
634,813 SF
- Multi-Tenant Warehouse Facility
592,400 SF
- Gateway UNFI
553,757 SF
- 3-Building Portfolio Sale
500,000 SF
- Building Materials Holding Corp.
435,600 SF
- Centerpark Investment
431,600 SF
- General Motors
404,000 SF
- 4-Building Portfolio Sale
400,000 SF
- Gerry Baby Products
380,000 SF
- Ozark Automotive
360,106
- 3-Building Distribution Portfolio
358,000 SF
- Warehouse Central
355,268 SF
- Aspen Distribution
354,000 SF
- Becknell/Haier Appliances
351,520 SF
- Webvan
349,400 SF
- AutoLiv Campus
342,715 SF
- OEA
342,715 SF
- Ultimate Electronics
338,651 SF
- Denver Post
321,000 SF
- Intrado
321,000 SF
- Subaru
319,587 SF
- 3-Building Warehouse Portfolio
310,000 SF
- Prologis/Safilo
309,902 SF
- Staples Investment
300,000 SF
- May Department Stores
294,900 SF
- Smith Road Commerce Center
290,147 SF
- GE Solar
280,000 SF
- Multi Tenant Flex Property
272,873 SF
- Conn's Appliances
264,928 SF
- Hydra Warehouse
264,000 SF
- United Stationers
264,000 SF
- Czarnowski
258,000 SF
- Single Tenant Net Leased Property
254,000 SF
- Industrial-Retail Development
249,669 SF
- Single Tenant Net Leased Property
227,750 SF
- Multi-Tenant Warehouse Facility
227,722 SF
- Princeton Fund
218,970 SF
- S.P. Richards
210,600 SF
- Master Craft Cabinets
201,113 SF
- Ford Motor Company
200,000 SF
- Cereform
189,120 SF
- Ford Motor Company
186,078 SF
- Aspen Pet
175,000 SF
- North American Van Line
175,000 SF
- General Electric
172,400 SF
- Whirlpool
171,300 SF
- Wholesale Specialties
167,180 SF
- Fiberspar
166,000 SF
- Hershey Food Corp.
165,970 SF
- Echosphere
163,210 SF
- Leggett & Platt
161,797 SF
- Prologis/Dish
153,813 SF
- General Electric
152,218 SF
- TSA
150,000 SF
- Stanley Door Works
150,000 SF
- Colorado Distribution Group
148,200 SF
- Acme Delivery Service
146,200 SF
- ADIC
146,000 SF
- First Industrial/Park Technology Center
145,700 SF
- Tolmar, Inc.
145,000 SF
- Packaging Corp. of America
145,000 SF
- Medtronic
143,000 SF
- AT&T
135,000 SF
- Experimental Applied Science
135,000 SF
- American Building Supply
133,721 SF
- Atkins Nutritional
133,721 SF
- Ediosphere
132,800 SF
- Win Wholesale
129,609 SF
- Simmons Mattress Company
129,000 SF
- Cadogan Investment Company
126,900 SF
- ConAgra Foods
126,153 SF
- Bolder Technologies
126,000 SF
- WP Carey
125,920 SF
- Best Buy
123,300 SF
- Office Max
122,248 SF
- 224-226 Commerce
121,333 SF
- Baileys Moving and Storage
118,000 SF
- Ascent Solar Technologies
116,240 SF
- Martz Supply
115,375 SF
- Caretek
112,270 SF
- Colony/Grand Worldwide
111,881 SF
- Aspen Distributing
110,400 SF
- McKesson Corporation
110,400 SF
- Big O Development
109,931 SF
- Baxa
106,250 SF
- Littleton Capital Partners
104,600 SF
- Graybar Electric
103,500 SF
- Winding Boy Investments
103,300 SF
- DCT Industrial/Stone Collection
102,035 SF
- 180 W. Oxford
102,000 SF
- Highfield Building 5
101,000 SF
- Product Development Corp
101,000 SF
- Imprints Wholesale
101,000 SF
- Sport-Obermeyer
100,000 SF
- US West
100,000 SF
Clients
- Alliance Commercial Partners
- Ascendant Development
- Becknell Industrial
- Bovamar
- Bradbury Companies
- Cadence Capital
- Clarion Partners
- Colony Industrial
- Conn's Appliances
- Czarnowski Display Services
- Fiberspar
- First Industrial
- Ford Motor Company
- General Electric
- General Electric Corporation
- GLP
- IBC Holdings
- Invesco Realty Advisors
- King Soopers/Kroger Stores
- LBA Realty
- Lowe Enterprises
- May Department Stores
- McWhinney
- Opus Northwest
- Panattoni
- Prologis
- Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post
- Room & Board
- Shamrock Foods
- Spears Manufacturing
- Southern Wine and Spirits
- Subaru
- The Pauls Corporation
- United Natural Foods (UNFI)