Eric Weins wants to be first.

The local developer has begun site work at his 0.45-acre property at 1298 S. Santa Fe Drive in Denver ahead of demolition of the existing structures. A year and a half after that, he said, 75 apartments will be standing in their place.

The residences will be the first in an otherwise industrial part of Denver’s Overland neighborhood, where warehouses and showrooms are common but houses and retail are not.

“I try to see the blue ocean, I don’t want to be in the water with a lot of other big fish. I just want to be the first, and when everyone comes, I will leave,” Weins said.

Weins, who founded Weins Development Group, says he sees lots of future development coming to that area of town.

For starters, a women’s soccer stadium is planned just two blocks to t

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