When searching for a new office for his architecture firm, Blake Mourer insisted on finding something that was not move-in ready.

“It was really less about location, more about finding the right asset,” he said. “It’s looking for something that needed work, that I could improve.”

Mourer is the co-founder and principal at Open Studio Architecture, a local firm that has designed everything from new office buildings in RiNo and Cherry Creek to the revamped Mighty Argo Gold Mill in Idaho Springs, which will bring cable cars, an amphitheater and retail space to the tourist attraction.

Last month, Open Studio purchased 1120 Santa Fe Drive in Denver’s Lincoln Park for $1.4 million, according to public records.

The company will move there in February from its office at 1010 Park Ave. in Ballpa

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