The week in one paragraph The biggest retail news this week was a discounted mall sale. Aspen Grove in Littleton sold for $55 million, about a third less than its 2016 price, which shows big-box and lifestyle-center pricing is still resetting. CBRE’s Q3 figures describe a tight but softening Denver market: availability is about 5%, rents are flat, absorption turned negative for the quarter, and almost no new space is being built. Food-and-beverage tenants kept leasing, with f