Chuck Lowen
Director
Chuck owns and manages Lowen Commercial Real Estate, LLC, a successful commercial property management and brokerage company that he formed in 2006. Chuck has expertise in every facet of real estate property management, leasing, sales, brokerage, development, and consulting and has over 48-years experience in commercial and residential property and asset management, construction management, and real estate brokerage. Chuck is the property manager and real-estate agent for Village Square at Castle Pines, which is home to many Castle Pines small businesses and community partners, including Duke’s Steakhouse, Pino’s Italian Kitchen, The Bundt Shoppe, Podiatry Associates, and the Castle Pines Library.
Concerned about the cost of operating retail and commercial businesses in the Metro District, Chuck led Castle Pines’ business owners and operators in 2016 and 2018 to defeat two versions of Ballot Issue A, a water plan that proposed to saddle the 3,200 property owners in Castle Pines with $120 million and $103 million, respectively, in new property taxes, water rates, and fees.
When asked why he pursued the vacancy on the board and what he hopes to accomplish as a director, Chuck replied, “It’s no secret that I support the direction of this new board. I worked my tail off to defeat ‘Ballot Issue A’ twice. To the degree that I can assist this board in getting our small metro district out of the water business sooner rather than later, I am happy to do so. That said, at this point in my life, I would have little interest in serving on the board were it to stray too far from that objective.”
From 1991 through 2005, Mr. Lowen was the Executive Vice President and Partner of Coldwell Banker Commercial R.E.S.I., where he oversaw the Corporation's eight million square feet of third-party contracted property management responsibilities including apartments, retail, office, industrial/warehouse, and Homeowner Associations.
From 1985 through 1991, Mr. Lowen was the Director of Property Management with Beta West, a wholly-owned national real estate development subsidiary of US West, responsible for all property management activities for a portfolio of over $1.8 billion worth of corporate-owned assets consisting of 54 properties in excess of 11.4 million square feet of office and retail space in eleven states.
From 1978 to 1985, Mr. Lowen was Vice President of L.C Fulenwider, Inc. a locally owned Colorado real estate company, where he headed up the property management department, developing a management portfolio of one million square feet of office space, 2000 condominium units, and 550 apartment units. He also served as the project manager for the development of Downtown Denver's first luxury, hi-rise, condominium project, Denver's first 236-FHA apartment project, and served as the property management consultant and building manager for a 450,000 square-foot downtown office tower.
Mr. Lowen served as the 1984 President of the Northern Colorado Chapter No. 17 of the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM) and received the Certified Property Manager of the Year Award in 1989. He was a Governing Councilor for 12 years, served as Chair of the Continuing & General Education Committee and was the Vice Chair of the Education Forum Committee. Mr. Lowen also served as IREM National's Region No. 8 Vice President from 1986-88 and was a member of IREM's CPM Membership standards Committee and the Advance CPM Standards Subcommittee. Additionally, Mr. Lowen served IREM National as a member of the Ethics & Discipline Committee, on the Ethics Appeal Board, as Vice Chair of the Education Policy Committee, on the faculty Performance Committee, Curriculum & Publishing Committee, on the Course Content Committee and is a national instructor for all entry, mid-level (and some advanced) IREM courses. Chuck is a licensed Colorado real estate broker.
Forty-eight years ago, Chuck married the love of his life, fellow native, Judy. They live in The Hamlet neighborhood and have two grown children and five glorious grandchildren.
