Allison brings specialized experience in municipal and land use law to complex real estate developments to facilitate success at every stage.
Allison advises developers, investors, and landowners buying, selling, financing, entitling, developing, or redeveloping projects in Colorado and throughout the Mountain West. She has considerable experience with mixed-use and master planned communities and multi-family, commercial, resort, and industrial development. Allison also handles the financing and development of horizontal infrastructure and utilities. Her command of zoning and land use matters is invaluable to clients pursuing ground-up development or repositioning land or assets for sale.
In her transactional work, Allison crafts creative and effective solutions to keep deals on track. Clients appreciate that she is meticulous, yet adaptable, and takes time to understand their business objectives. She can see all angles of a deal and anticipate not only the legal, but the political, engineering, finance, and environmental implications of a project.
Allison’s background in natural resources law also enables her to be a capable advocate for rural and mountain landowners in conservation, access, resource lease, and public lands matters. She helps families and businesses conserve their land, generate new revenue streams, and add value to land through planning and entitlements.
Before joining Holland & Hart, Allison was a partner at a boutique Denver real estate firm where she co-chaired the firm’s diversity, equity and inclusivity committee and served on the firm’s marketing and business development, recruiting, and legislative committees. Allison also practiced water and environmental law at a regional firm and served as an appellate law clerk to the Honorable Gregory J. Hobbs, Jr. (ret.) of the Colorado Supreme Court.