Front Range real estate lures wave of buyers

Early in the film "Gone With the Wind," Scarlett O˜Hara˜s father, Gerald, admonishes her for not feeling the same love as he does for the family plantation, Tara."Land is the only thing that matters," he tells her, "because it˜s the only thing that lasts."
Investors in Northern Colorado seem to share that sentiment, as the torrid pace of commercial real-estate activity continued throughout 1997 and into this year.
"Our supply of land is definitely dwindling," said Steve Pfister, a partner at Realtec Commercial Real Estate Services Inc., the area˜s largest commercial brokerage by volume.
Longtime Colorado residents remember all those…