The consensus was clear: 2025 was the floor. 2026 is a recovery year. And 2027 is shaping up to be a “banner” year.
I left the event agreeing with that read. But I also left with a sharper conviction about something I have believed for a while: this recovery is not going to lift all boats. The Denver office market is bifurcating, and the gap between the buildings that win and the ones that struggle is getting wider by the quarter. If you are a business owner leasing or considering purchasing office space, understanding which side of that line your space sits on matters more right now than almost anything else.
Colorado just lost its largest publicly traded company. In February 2026, Palantir Technologies, a $300 billion AI and software firm that had called Denver home since 2020, announced it was moving its headquarters to the Miami area. The announcement came without advance notice to the governor, the mayor, or anyone else in state government. Just a single post on X.
That kind of exit deserves more than a headline. For business owners in Denver, it raises a question worth sitting with: what does this signal about the environment we are all operating in?
