Ritter brings Midwestern work ethic to real estate
by John Rebchook
When Matt Ritter was a finance major at Illinois State University, he and some buddies drove to Colorado to catch two Allman Brothers Band concerts at Red Rocks in August 1997.
"You can imagine coming from central Illinois with its hot, sticky humid weather and watching a great concert at Red Rocks," recalled Ritter, a co-founder of Denver-based Pinnacle Real Estate Advisors, a full-service commercial real estate firm with 30 brokers and 10 support staff.
"I can remember enjoying the great weather and watching the planes landing and seeing Denver’s skyline," said Ritter, now 34. "We all said that we’ve got to move here. Of all my friends, I’m the only one who ended up actually moving to Denver."
Even before the double-header concert, he was no stranger to Colorado.
He grew up in Woodstock, Ill., an idyllic community northwest of Chicago, but probably had visited Colorado a dozen times during his youth, enjoying everything from concerts to camping to snowmobiling at Grand Lake and even the Final Four college basketball championship one year.
He also was no stranger to real estate.
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Caldwell, Holcomb share common interests, goals
by Jill Jamieson-Nichols
Their differences make them a better team, but Jeff Caldwell and Blake Holcomb wouldn’t be a team if it weren’t for what they have in common.
“We’re both real outdoorsy. We spend a lot of time in the mountains. We climb fourteeners. We hike and bike and ski, so our love for Colorado was what brought us together,” said Caldwell.
Caldwell and Holcomb teamed up at Pinnacle Real Estate Advisors late last year, expanding the burgeoning office group at the firm known largely for apartment deals. It was a careful, considered decision for the former Grubb & Ellis brokers and one facilitated by Eric Shaw, who already had left Grubb for Pinnacle.
“We felt like Pinnacle Real Estate Advisors was the best fit for us,” said Caldwell. “Pinnacle is a local company – very entrepreneurial, and very enthusiastic and energetic. We felt very good about the opportunity to be part of something that was grassroots and growing.”
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