ABOUT US

Cameron Bertron, Owner/Managing Partner

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EFG is owned and managed by Cameron Bertron. Cameron holds masters’ degrees in urban planning and public finance from the University of Colorado and has more than 20 years of real estate development experience in Colorado and the rocky mountain region. A former land use consultant and manager for the Denver Urban Renewal Authority, Cameron has participated in the creation of more than a dozen urban renewal areas and more than 20 metropolitan districts. During his time at EFG, Cameron has managed the design, entitlement, financing, and construction of more than $200 Million of remediation and public infrastructure. His projects have resulted in eight environmental closures / no further action determinations from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. These projects have laid the groundwork for close to $1 Billion in vertical development.

Cameron currently serves on the boards of numerous active metropolitan districts, as well the West Colfax Business Improvement District, the Colorado Fresh Food Financing Fund, the East (High School) Friends & Alumni Foundation, and the Center for Cultural Vibrancy.

Sarah Laverty, Partner

Sarah is a Partner at EFG where she leads the design, entitlement, financing, and construction of large-scale redevelopment projects that revitalize underinvested neighborhoods.  Her work focuses on urban infill and brownfield redevelopment, but also includes infrastructure, industrial, and affordable housing.  In her capacity as Owner/Developer, Owner’s Rep, and Construction Manager, she has directly managed over $400M, secured $100M+ in public financing, and enabled $1.5B+ in vertical development. 

Prior to EFG Sarah worked for a range of public, private, and not for profit entities, including Bio-Logical Capital, City of Aspen, Aspen Center for Environmental Studies, and Ceres.  She has a passion for land stewardship and development that creates impactful outcomes for the environment and community.

Sarah has a B.S. in Economics and Environmental Studies from Bowdoin College and received her Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Real Estate and Finance from the University of Colorado in Boulder.  She is an active member of both ULI and NAIOP, and a long-standing mentor for ULI, NAIOP, and CU Boulder Real Estate Center. 

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AWARDS AND PRESS

St. Anthony’s Central Hospital, now SLOANS

  • LEED ND Gold
  • 2017 ULI CO Impact Award finalist, Influence in 2017

ASARCO Globe Smelter, now Crossroads Commerce Park

  • NAIOP Colorado Industrial project of the year in 2016
  • Winner of the Phoenix Award for EPA Region 8 in 2017
  • ULI Colorado Impact Award for Infill in 2017

 

TruStile Doors Headquarters and Denver Manufacturing Plant

  • NAIOP Colorado Industrial project of the year in 2020
  • ULI Colorado Impact Award for Innovation in 2021

Koppers Denver Wood Treatment Site, Now Quantum 56

  • NAIOP Colorado Industrial project of the year in 2024

COMPANY HISTORY

Founded in the early 1990s as the California Environmental Remediation Fund or CERF, EFG started out as public-private partnership lender, providing loans to encourage brownfield remediation and redevelopment. Following its initial success in California, the company was taken entirely private to expand a national footprint and rebranded EnviroFinance Group. In the wake of the 2008 recession EFG added a development branch, merging with the Colorado-based firm Brownfield Partners to deploy capital acquiring and developing brownfield sites nationwide in addition to its ongoing lending platform. Following the successful completion of several brownfield and restoration projects (National Envelope Corporation in Union NJ, ASARCO-Globe in Denver, development of the Kane Wetlands Mitigation Bank in Bergen County, NJ), EFG closed its original fund and began winding down its national operations.

Beginning in 2017, Cameron Bertron took over management of EFG’s Denver and Rocky Mountain West operations, focusing on new brownfield redevelopment opportunities in the Colorado region. Today, EFG-Denver (dba EnviroFinance Group) acquires, partners with, or provides owner’s representation services to, landowners and vertical developers seeking to acquire, remediate, and redevelop contaminated sites throughout the Rocky Mountain West.