Industry RiNo Station is located at 3827 Lafayette St. in RiNo. (Thomas Gounley/BusinessDen)
Jason Winkler developed Denver’s Industry RiNo Station office building.
He said he owns half of it.
And he was recently evicted from the building.
Last month, judges awarded possession of units leased by two of Winkler’s companies to building ownership after each missed months of missed rent payments, court records show.
Q Factor LLC and Makers Line LLC, the two companies, were both sued by their landlord Industry RiNo Station LLC on July 15, records show.
Makers Line, Winkler’s shuttered general contracting firm, had a lease that started June 2022 and wasn’t set to expire until three years later, but had stopped paying rent and related expenses in December 2023 and owed $130,000 by the time July rolled around, according to the landlord.
The lease for Q Factor — Winkler’s development firm — started January 2019 and was month to month. But the company also stopped paying in December, and owed just under $11,000, according to the landlord. December is around the time that JLL took over management of the Industry RiNo Station from Q Factor, Winkler previously told BusinessDen.
Jason Winkler
In both cases, the landlord said the companies had clearly ceased operations in the building at 3827 Lafayette St., and that Industry RiNo Station had reached out in June asking the firms to voluntarily give up their space. But the landlord said it received no response.
No one from Makers Line or Q Factor attended court hearings. So, on Aug. 1, Denver District Court Judge Sarah Wallace gave Industry RiNo Station possession of Q Factor’s unit. A few weeks later, on Aug. 21, the judge overseeing the other case — Judge Jill Deborah Dorancy — authorized the landlord to change the locks on Makers Line’s unit.
Industry RiNo Station is the second of two Industry-branded adaptive reuse coworking buildings that Winkler and partners developed in RiNo last decade.
First was Industry Denver, at 3001 Brighton Blvd., where the first phase was completed in 2014. Three years later, in late 2017, Winkler and partner New York-based Clarion Partners debuted the approximately 150,000-square-foot Industry RiNo Station. Clarion later exited the building as part of a recapitalization that brought in a new partner.
In a brief phone call last week, Winkler — who moved with his wife from Denver to Salt Lake City about five years ago — told BusinessDen he owned 50 percent of the building. He said he’d learned of the eviction proceedings only days earlier. Court records show the companies were originally served with notice only by postings on the abandoned units.
Winkler declined to comment further. Christian Hendrickson, a Sherman & Howard attorney representing Industry RiNo Station, did not respond to requests for comment.
A photo included in court filings showing notices of eviction proceedings posted at the Makers Line unit in Industry RiNo Station. (Court records)
Winkler’s firms ran into trouble last year. Building Salt Lake, a regional real estate publication, reported last October that the company was closing its doors, a fact later confirmed in a court filing by an attorney representing Makers Line.
The publication also reported that other Winkler-affiliated companies including Forge, a metal manufacturer, and Titus, a concrete company, had ceased operations. In interviews, employees described the companies as quick to bill and late to pay. Numerous lawsuits were filed against Makers Line.
The status of Q Factor is less clear. The firm’s website is no longer active.
As of the end of 2023, Industry RiNo Station was 78 percent occupied, according to a report from Trepp, which tracks commercial real estate loans. The largest tenants are Dispatch Health, which is headquartered there, and Atlanta-based software firm OneTrust. Another major tenant, Velocity Global, moved its headquarters from Industry RiNo Station to 1701 Platte St. last year.
As for the original Industry building, at 3001 Brighton Blvd., Clarion Partners and Winkler recently sold it at a loss to a Boulder firm after a loan default.
Industry RiNo Station is located at 3827 Lafayette St. in RiNo. (Thomas Gounley/BusinessDen)
Jason Winkler developed Denver’s Industry RiNo Station office building.
He said he owns half of it.
And he was recently evicted from the building.
Last month, judges awarded possession of units leased by two of Winkler’s companies to building ownership after each missed months of missed rent payments, court records show.
Q Factor LLC and Makers Line LLC, the two companies, were both sued by their landlord Industry RiNo Station LLC on July 15, records show.
Makers Line, Winkler’s shuttered general contracting firm, had a lease that started June 2022 and wasn’t set to expire until three years later, but had stopped paying rent and related expenses in December 2023 and owed $130,000 by the time July rolled around, according to the landlord.
The lease for Q Factor — Winkler’s development firm — started January 2019 and was month to month. But the company also stopped paying in December, and owed just under $11,000, according to the landlord. December is around the time that JLL took over management of the Industry RiNo Station from Q Factor, Winkler previously told BusinessDen.
Jason Winkler
In both cases, the landlord said the companies had clearly ceased operations in the building at 3827 Lafayette St., and that Industry RiNo Station had reached out in June asking the firms to voluntarily give up their space. But the landlord said it received no response.
No one from Makers Line or Q Factor attended court hearings. So, on Aug. 1, Denver District Court Judge Sarah Wallace gave Industry RiNo Station possession of Q Factor’s unit. A few weeks later, on Aug. 21, the judge overseeing the other case — Judge Jill Deborah Dorancy — authorized the landlord to change the locks on Makers Line’s unit.
Industry RiNo Station is the second of two Industry-branded adaptive reuse coworking buildings that Winkler and partners developed in RiNo last decade.
First was Industry Denver, at 3001 Brighton Blvd., where the first phase was completed in 2014. Three years later, in late 2017, Winkler and partner New York-based Clarion Partners debuted the approximately 150,000-square-foot Industry RiNo Station. Clarion later exited the building as part of a recapitalization that brought in a new partner.
In a brief phone call last week, Winkler — who moved with his wife from Denver to Salt Lake City about five years ago — told BusinessDen he owned 50 percent of the building. He said he’d learned of the eviction proceedings only days earlier. Court records show the companies were originally served with notice only by postings on the abandoned units.
Winkler declined to comment further. Christian Hendrickson, a Sherman & Howard attorney representing Industry RiNo Station, did not respond to requests for comment.
A photo included in court filings showing notices of eviction proceedings posted at the Makers Line unit in Industry RiNo Station. (Court records)
Winkler’s firms ran into trouble last year. Building Salt Lake, a regional real estate publication, reported last October that the company was closing its doors, a fact later confirmed in a court filing by an attorney representing Makers Line.
The publication also reported that other Winkler-affiliated companies including Forge, a metal manufacturer, and Titus, a concrete company, had ceased operations. In interviews, employees described the companies as quick to bill and late to pay. Numerous lawsuits were filed against Makers Line.
The status of Q Factor is less clear. The firm’s website is no longer active.
As of the end of 2023, Industry RiNo Station was 78 percent occupied, according to a report from Trepp, which tracks commercial real estate loans. The largest tenants are Dispatch Health, which is headquartered there, and Atlanta-based software firm OneTrust. Another major tenant, Velocity Global, moved its headquarters from Industry RiNo Station to 1701 Platte St. last year.
As for the original Industry building, at 3001 Brighton Blvd., Clarion Partners and Winkler recently sold it at a loss to a Boulder firm after a loan default.
