Sunflower Bank names regional president for Colorado

Sunflower Bank has named Jason Petz as its new regional president for Colorado.

Dallas-based Sunflower operates in seven states, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Texas and Washington. Its Colorado locations include Boulder and Broomfield.

“We’re excited to welcome Jason Petz as Regional President for Colorado,” Bo Scott, chief banking officer at Sunflower, said in a statement. “Jason brings great experience in growing successful teams and has deep roots in the Colorado market. With his leadership, we look forward to building on Sunflower Bank’s longstanding relationships and strong commercial and specialty banking expertise.”

Petz has more than 20 years of banking experience, including leadership roles in commercial and business banking, most recently as the U.S. head of business banking sales at BMO.

Petz is based in Sunflower Bank’s Denver Tech Center location in Greenwood Village.

“I am thrilled to join the Sunflower Bank team and am eager to expand our commercial banking presence in the Colorado market. With its rich history and established footprint, Sunflower Bank is well-positioned to seize new opportunities, drive growth and make a meaningful impact in the communities we serve,” Petz said in a statement.

Sunflower Bank operates 11 full-service branches in Colorado, with locations in Boulder, Broomfield, Cañon City, Denver, Golden, Greenwood Village, Longmont, Monte Vista and Pueblo.

Louisville’s Sierra Space to manage Honda test mission

Louisville’s Sierra Space Corp. will serve as the manager of a mission to test Honda Motor Co. Ltd.’s (NYSE: HMC) high-differential pressure water electrolysis system aboard the International Space Station.

The water electrolysis system is a “key component” of a “regenerative fuel cell system, known as a circulative renewable energy system, that will continuously produce oxygen, hydrogen, and electricity,” SSC said in a news release. “… Honda’s renewable fuel cell system is part of the company’s vision to provide advanced energy storage capable of supporting human life on the lunar surface.”

Sierra Space and its partners will transport mission materials to the ISS using SSC’s Dream Chaser spaceplane.

“The future of innovation in space is not only commercialization, but teaming arrangements between like-minded companies to advance technology we never thought imaginable in previous decades,” SSC senior directors of business development Ken Shields said in the release.

Downtown Superior site sold to apartment developer

An out-of-state apartment community developer recently secured a parcel of land in the heart of Downtown Superior.

Boulder County real estate records show that Flatiron Apartments Owner LLC, an entity registered with the Colorado Secretary of State’s office to an Atlanta address affiliated with multifamily housing developer Wood Partners, paid $10.75 million for a vacant, roughly 3.2-acre site near the intersection of Main Street and Creek View Way.

Wood Partners, which has an office in Denver, was involved with the development of the Alta Mile High apartment community in Denver and The Grove at City Center project in Aurora, according to the company’s online portfolio.

The seller of the Superior property was PMB MSP Superior LLC, a holding company registered to the address of California health care real estate developer PMB LLC.

PMB, formerly known as Pacific Medical Buildings, was one of the developers of the Superior Medical Center, a 60,000-square-foot facility that was one of downtown Superior’s first commercial projects.

— BizWest reports