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Heather M. Gasper

Senior Associate

The Link Virtual Office
phone: 303.749.7248
fax: 303.749.7272

email: [email protected]

Denver*

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Overview

Heather assists commercial real estate clients on a broad variety of end-to-end transactions nationwide.

Heather's collaborative attitude helps guide clients large and small through the acquisition, development, financing, disposition and leasing of commercial property. She represents commercial lenders and developers in construction financing projects, utilizing monetization of tax increment financing (TIF), Property Assessed Clean Energy financing (PACE), and other governmental incentives. Clients relying on Heather’s counsel include lenders, owners, developers, tenants and landlords across industry sectors that include:

Self storage
Telecommunications
Cannabis
Hospitality and resorts
Retail/Office/Industrial
Mobile home parks
Finance

Heather brings a business-minded perspective to her practice of law; clients value that Heather’s legal counsel and due diligence is informed by her pre-law career as an environmental scientist. Additionally, Heather also served as in-house counsel to both a national title insurance company and a lender holding over $132 billion in assets. Heather’s comprehensive background in the environmental, financial and title insurance industries allows her to advise real estate deals from multiple industry perspectives.

Industry

Real Estate, Development, & Construction

Services

Cannabis

Corporate Real Estate

Data Centers

Nonprofit Organizations & Religious Institutions

Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Financing

Recognition

Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America
- Real Estate Law, 2024 and 2025

Education

J.D., University of Denver Sturm College of Law
- Environmental and Natural Resource Law Certificate
- Society of Women Environmental Professionals Scholarship
- Dean’s Scholarship
B.A., University of Colorado Boulder
- Environmental Studies
- Dean’s List

Admissions

Colorado

Professional Memberships and Certifications

Colorado Bar Association
Jefferson County Board of Education - Capital Asset Advisory Committee Member
Jefferson County Economic Development Corporation - Develop Jeffco Committee Member
NAIOP Commercial Real Estate Development Association
Urban Land Institute
Women's Wireless Leadership Forum

*Contact Heather to set up an in-person consultation by appointment in the Denver office.

Experience

Alternative construction finance

Heather is a leader in PACE financing, having closed over 125 transactions in 26 states working closely with each state PACE authority.
Part of a team serving as counsel for securitization of PACE assets.
Serves as counsel to leading project developer and lender for PACE transactions nationwide.
Serves as counsel to lender monetizing TIF in transactions nationwide.

Commercial purchases and sales

Real estate counsel to a publicly traded self-storage REIT in connection with acquisition of self-storage facilities located throughout the United States. Transactions ranged in size from a single self-storage facility to large multi-state portfolios up to $250M.
Real estate counsel for acquisition and expansion of cannabis dispensaries and retail operations.
Counsel to insurer in $1 billion-plus portfolio acquisition consisting of 90 sites of self-storage nationwide.
Counsel to telecommunication client on rural lot splits and zoning variances for strategic national real property acquisitions and dispositions.

Commercial leasing

Counsel to cannabis dispensaries and retail cannabis landlords and tenants.
Counsel to Fortune 100 telecommunications company on nationwide portfolio of retail and office leases.
Counsel for landlord's portfolio of Colorado non-profit retail leases that contribute over $2.0 billion to local economy.

Crisis management

Counseled commercial and residential Colorado tenants on COVID-19 lease restructuring or eviction assistance, respectively.
Closely monitored quickly changing state laws amidst COVID-19 on leasing, labor & employment, healthcare, and other business-critical legal considerations.

Case Studies

Empowering Change: Zero Electric's Journey with Communities for Change and Husch Blackwell

HB Communities for Change initiative assists Zero Electric to secure a charging station, build it out, and develop the technology they will store at the station.

Speaking Engagements | March 2025

Presenter, "Estoppels & SNDA's: Best Practices," Continuing Education

Speaking Engagements | October 2024

Presenter, "National Redevelopment Trends," RDC Conference

Speaking Engagements | March 4, 2021

Panelist, "Charter School Real Estate Leases: A Case Study Approach to Gaining Insight to the Risks and Opportunities of Leasing Space for Your Charter School," 2021 Colorado Charter Annual Conference

News Releases | August 15, 2024

More than 150 Husch Blackwell Attorneys Named to The Best Lawyers in America® Ones to Watch

News Releases | August 17, 2023

More than 140 Husch Blackwell Attorneys Named to The Best Lawyers in America® Ones to Watch

Outside the Office

Heather enjoys spending time outdoors in the mountains with her daughters.

She especially loves to camp, telemark ski and soak in Colorado's many beautiful hot springs. She has made her own soap since she was a teenager, attempts to play the piano and loves hearing live music. Heather and her daughters spend a lot of time doting on their energetic mutt, Dexter; their fat cat, Meep; and their pet chameleon, Felicia.

Community Leadership

Heather volunteers with:

Project C.U.R.E.
Denver Rescue Mission
A Little Help
Colorado Lawyers Committee - Nonprofit Legal Audit Clinic

In addition, Heather serves as:

Board Member - Rocky Mountain Refuge for End of Life Care
Committee Member - Jefferson County Economic Development Corporation, Develop Jeffco
Committee Member - Jefferson County Board of Education, Capital Asset Advisory

In-House Counsel Experience

Resident Attorney, CoBank, 2017-2018