Ppl familiar with Denver-area industrial/warehouse market - Is this out of line?
[https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/226-Commerce-St-Broomfield-CO/18405313/](https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/226-Commerce-St-Broomfield-CO/18405313/)

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This is a property that my company leased and was intent on moving to but ultimately ran into insurmountable costs with what the fire protection district expected us to do to a building we don't own and decided to sublet it instead.

Had a tenant in there who went out of business 3 months ago, got all their stuff moved out and cleaned the place up so it's ready to rent again, have hardly gotten anything besides a couple nibbles and few showings on it.

Looking at other listings in the area on Loopnet it doesn't seem like our cost per SF is out of line.  I'm aware that some of the pictures show a bit of a mess in and a few need to be rotated which I've notified the realtor we're working with to fix.

Is there anything else I'm missing or that could/should be improved to help find us find a new tenant?  The amount this costs to give basically no return really stings.
[{"id": "hix9xd6", "text": "For 2,800 sf, I'd charge twice that in the Seattle market but...can't help you on pricing in Denver.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hixhdom", "text": "Not much to be done; one challenge is your limited ability to attract a tenant through customizing the space and/or term etc. I no longer own in Denver (but did previously) and that seems like reasonable pricing. I'm not up to speed on local vacancy trends in 2021 though. \n\nIf it seems to you there's a lot of units available for lease in this size and configuration, you could try lowering the rate. But generally speaking, that isn't always the answer, bc a unit will sit vacant until someone NEEDS it, somewhat regardless of price. \n\nIs it possible to negotiate a lease-break with the landlord?  That'd probably be best.", "replies": [{"id": "hixish9", "text": "We signed a long term lease (5 years) which in hindsight was a terrible decision.  They have veto power over any potential sublease tenants and rejected one which I believe would have outlasted the tenant that just went out of business.  Cost of a lease-break is basically going to be the same cost as continuing to rent the unit for the next 3 years, with no potential to get any of it back as we might be able to by subleasing the unit.\n\n&amp;#x200B;\n\n&gt;bc a unit will sit vacant until someone NEEDS it, somewhat regardless of price.\n\nYup.  We had a potential sublet candidate in the last couple weeks who got approved and everything just to have the deal fall apart on their side.  I was curious if there's any seasonal trends at play here too, I.E. does industrial/warehouse space tend to slow down in the fall like residential does?  I'm not well enough versed in this market to know.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hiz4u2n", "text": "Broomfield. North Metro Fire... They are typically reasonable. What's the issue?", "replies": [{"id": "hiz670r", "text": "The business we were intending to move to that location is using ethanol for hemp extraction.  At the daily scale we wanted to build the business up to, NMFPD was expecting us to spend over a half million dollars to put in a gigantic concrete basin for the bulk storage tanks as well as put an awning on the building to protect them from any potential rain or snow.  This along with some other (IMO, more reasonable) additions/revisions was going to run over $600k in 2019 dollars and many wouldn't be transferrable when the lease ran out if we wanted to move locations again.  This happened right as the huge amount of hemp coming onto the market from the 2019 grow season cratered commodity prices, I can't blame NMFPD for commodity prices in our industry but the sheer cost of all the work they expected us to do made the move a non-starter, there was no way the business could afford to do that with as slim of margins as there were in 2019/2020 and they've only gotten slimmer in 2021.\n\n&amp;#x200B;\n\nFWIW Mile High Labs which bought a huge ex-pharma facility in Broomfield for their packaging and post-extraction refinement set up a couple of semi trailers to do extraction on site at the farm where the plant material was grown, from what I gathered they basically reached the same conclusion we did about doing that part of the process in Broomfield.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hj1o139", "text": "Right now there are tons of new subleases available in Denver area from people probably in similar situation to yours. Landlords are trying to keep their rents high to avoid things like having to renegotiate with other tenents, but offering much more of things like TI allowance and X months free rent to sweeten the deal. They keep the appearance of high rent, but the tenet is actually getting a much better deal which could be why you\u2019re getting beat out if you\u2019re pricing just on others advertised price.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]