Aerial photo of the former Mount St. Scholastica campus in Cañon City as it stands today: a long three-story residence hall, a red-brick academy building and open grounds, with tree-lined streets and pale hills behind.

Colorado Est. 2026

Buildings worth keeping, put back to work.

A Colorado partnership that converts old buildings into places to live, shop and gather.

See Skyline Innovation Village How we work

The campus today, 615 Pike Avenue, Cañon City. Drone photo, September 2026.

§ I What we do

Adaptive reuse, start to finish.

We take on buildings that were built to last and convert them into homes and ground-floor businesses a town can use. Every part of that work sits inside the partnership.

  1. Capital & deals

    We find the building, negotiate the deal and put the funding together.

  2. Finance & structuring

    We set up the entities, the budget and the books before any wall comes down.

  3. Abatement & site prep

    Old buildings hide old hazards. We clear them first, in-house.

  4. Construction

    A licensed general contractor runs the build as a partner, not a bid.

  5. Technology & operations

    IT services, security and compliance, AI, and media. Records, reporting and communications run on systems we build ourselves.

§ II Skyline Innovation Village

A school campus in Cañon City, open to the town again.

Rendering of the planned village from above: the long Residences building with solar panels on its roof, the red-brick Hub, the smaller Market, gardens and open grounds, set among neighborhood streets.
Design model rendering · not a photograph

615 Pike Avenue · Cañon City

Our first project is the former Mount St. Scholastica campus. Three buildings, planned as one connected place.

See the project

§ III How we work

Sharper tools, same hands.

The work is old work: find a sound building, make it safe, build it out, fill it with people. We bring better tools to it and keep it in the same hands from the first walk-through to opening day.

  1. The whole build chain at one table.

    Capital, finance, abatement, construction and operations are partners in the same room. No hand-offs to strangers. One partnership answers for the whole job.

  2. Numbers over adjectives.

    We describe a building by its address, its square footage and its dates. If a number is not settled, we do not print it.

  3. Community as outcome, not garnish.

    The grocery, the café and the places to gather are not extras added for a brochure. They are the program.

§ IV Partners

Five partners, five lanes.

Veteran-founded and based in Colorado. Each partner runs one part of the work and answers for it.

  • Ben BoydCapital & deals
  • Malik ThomasFinance & structuring
  • Christel AimeConstruction & project execution
  • Morris CunninghamAbatement & site prep
  • Amir GuyTechnology & operations

§ V Contact

If a building is worth keeping, we want to hear about it.

Property owners, town officials, future tenants and tradespeople are all welcome to write.

onyx@theobsidiansyndicate.com
Where
Colorado Springs · Cañon City