ABOUT US
Our Mission
 The Mission of Thistle Communities is to create and preserve quality, permanently affordable rental and ownership homes for working families, seniors and people with disabilities. Thistle’s 1,000 homes allow teachers, health-care workers, and others who are the backbone of our economy to live in the communities they serve.
History of Thistle
A charitable non-profit, Thistle was created in 1989 to meet the need for affordable and accessible rental housing, serving twenty-four people with disabilities. Thistle expanded its mission to provide workforce rental housing, then became a developer in 1993. In 1996 homeowners purchased their first Community Land Trust homes. Thistle is now the largest private provider of permanently affordable homes in Boulder and Adams Counties. Since its founding, Thistle has created over 1,000 affordable homes, providing quality housing for over 3,000 residents and responding to over 4,000 requests for information and services annually.
Awards
Blue Vista received the 2007 Sustainability Award for Advancing Green Design and Planning from the Colorado Chapter of the American Planning Association; and the 2008 Green Development of the Year Award from the National Association of Home Builders
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
JOE BALLESTRASSE, President, First National Bank of Colorado
JERRY LEE, Vice President, Lee Real Estate
DERRICK ROBINSON, Treasurer, Robinson Capital Management
RICHARD HARRIS, Secretary, Retired
FRED MARIENTHAL, Assistant Secretary, Kutak Rock
DOLORES ANDRADE, CLT Homeowner
PAT STERNER, JFB Associates
LILLY WALLACE, CLT Homeowner
GLORIA WEISSMAN, Thistle Resident
STAFF
Mary Roosevelt, Chief Executive Officer
Susan Andre, Resource Development Director
Andy Allison, Blue Vista Project Manager
Natasha Biggs, Blue Vista Sales Manager
Jessica Foulsham, Office Assistant
Denise Huxford, Executive Assistant, Director of Administration
Alesia Martin, CPA - Director Of Finance/CFO
Sally Moser, Marketing and Communications Director
Barbara Navin, Community Land Trust Director
Irene Negrete, Office Assistant
Meave Phelan, Homeownership Coordinator
Joe Rosenblum, General Counsel
Dan Sermersheim, SHOP Coordinator
Marsha Samuelson, Accounts Payable Technician
Tracy Walters, Directory of Property Management
Luis Duenas, Capital Projects
Manuel Chaparro, Capital Projects
Libby Bodell, Boulder Property Manager
Jackie Ortega, Boulder Leasing Agent
Benny Chavez, Boulder Maintenance Tech
Ventura Terrazas, Boulder Grounds Keeper
Dion Gonzalez, Boulder Maintenance Tech
Jessica Calles, Longmont Assistant Property Manager
Mike Coulter, Longmont Maintenance Supervisor
Guillermo Gonzalez, Longmont Maintenance Tech
Tim Mayhen, Longmont Maintenance Tech
Abram Peinado, Longmont Maintenance Tech
Alma Rico, Longmont Leasing Agent
Marie Panissidi, Northglenn Property Manager
Juli Bodell, Assistant Property Manager
Greg McArthur, Northglenn Maintenance Tech
Mike Moore, Northglenn Maintenance Supervisor
James Russell, Northglenn Maintenance Tech
Steve Kearney, Northglenn Maintenance Tech
Lori Schick, Northglenn Housekeeper
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
None currently available. Please check back.
ACCESSIBILITY
Thistle strives to ensure that all information and technology is available to individuals with disabilities. In 1998, Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act Amendments, as amended by the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, issued accessibility standards setting forth electronic and information technology performance criteria. Using these accessibility guidelines, we are continuously improving our web pages for easy access to all visitors. Thistle is making every effort to maintain our website's Section 508 compliance, and will continue with these efforts as new methods and technology become available.
If you have difficulty accessing information on this site please Contact Us.
TERMS OF USE AND PRIVACY POLICY:
Changes
If we make significant changes to this policy, we will post them on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect and how we use it. Changes are effective when posted to this page. Your continued use after any change is posted is an acceptance by you of such change.
Anonymous Information
Whenever you request a page from our Web site, that page and the Web site from which you came are stored in a log file. This information cannot be used to identify a specific individual. This information is only used for statistical purposes to help improve this Web site.
Personal Information
If you choose to take advantage of some of the services on the Web site, you may be asked to provide information such as your real name, company name, email address, phone number, and street address. We may use this information to deliver the services you wish from us. Thistle will not sell any information, including personal or identifying information, which is obtained through your use of this web site.
The email and postal addresses collected from the subscriptions to our newsletters or other information are not sold, bartered, or disclosed to a third party. These email addresses are stored on a server hosted at Thistle, and will only be used to send out the information you requested. If a survey appears on the Thistle Web site, information is collected, compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis. Thistle does not share this data with any advertisers.
No Guaranty
All information presented on www.thistlecommunities.org is based on information believed to be reliable. The information is not guaranteed to be accurate, and should not be considered to be all-inclusive. Your use and application of the information provided is at your own risk.
Links to and From Third Party Sites
Links to information on sites other than those operated by or on behalf of Thistle are for your convenience only and are not an endorsement or recommendation of those sites. Thistle does not control or provide any content or information at these sites, makes no representation or warranty of any kind with respect to these sites or their content and does not maintain, operate, or take responsibility for information. Thistle does not endorse and is not responsible for the accuracy or reliability of such content or information and any use thereof is solely at the user's risk.
Certain organizations may choose to link this Web site to their own web site. Such linkage is not meant to imply that Thistle agrees with, supports and concurs with the content such Web sites may contain.
Copyright
The design, arrangement, presentation and layout of this site, and all material provided on this Web site (e.g. text, graphics, logos, images, photographs, software, interfaces, data, icons, audio, and the arrangement and coordination of these materials) are the property of Thistle Communities and are copyright © by Thistle Communities. All material on this Web site is protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. No rights, title, or interests are transferred to anyone who downloads or copies material from the Web site. The material on the Web site may be used only for personal, non-commercial, viewing, reading, or educational purposes. You may not modify, remove, delete, augment, distribute, transmit, publish, license, add to, exploit, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, create derivative works from the content either in whole or in part without the written permission of Thistle Communities.
Terms of Use
Thistle reserves the right to change the terms, conditions and notices under which this Web site is used. As a condition of your use of the www.thistlecommunities.org site, you warrant to Thistle that you will not use the Thistle Web site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. You may not use the www.thistlecommunities.org web site in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the www.thistlecommunities.org web site or interfere with any other party's use of this web site.
Product and service offers, rates, terms, and other information provided herein are subject to change without notice. Although every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy, currency and reliability of the content of these pages, Thistle accepts no responsibility in that regard.
Disclaimer
The Web site and all material contained on the Web site are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including without limitation warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and freedom from computer virus, and the accuracy, reliability, and usefulness of the Web site or Web site content. You acknowledge, by your use of the Web site, that your use of the Web site is at your sole risk, that you assume full responsibility for all costs associated with your use or inability to use the Web site, and that Thistle will not be responsible for any damages of any kind related to your use of the Web site. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Thistle and its respective officers, employees, and agents from any and all loss, cost, expense, claim, damages, and liability related to or associated with your use of the Web site and any violation by you of these terms.
Applicable Law
The Web site is created and controlled by Thistle in the State of Colorado, USA. The laws of the State of Colorado will govern these disclaimers, terms, and conditions, without regard to any conflict of law rule which would refer jurisdiction to another forum. You agree that the federal and state courts of Colorado will have exclusive jurisdiction and venue to hear and decide any claim or dispute relating in any way to your use of the Web site, and you agree and expressly consent to the exercise of personal jurisdiction and venue in the federal and state courts of Colorado in connection with all such disputes.
Contact Information
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