Jury finds for Pearl West owners in robotic-parking-garage case

BOULDER — An observer standing on Boulder’s Walnut Street looking up at the Pearl West building isn’t likely to notice anything amiss. They’d see a state-of-the-art, 175,000-square-foot brick and glass mixed-use development bustling with office workers, retail shoppers and restaurant-goers.

Beneath the street, however, is a hidden headache for Pearl West’s owners. The building’s innovative robotic parking garage system — thought to be the first of its kind in the West — has been the source of a multiyear legal battle between ownership and the system’s builders.

The current owners — Ten Eleven Pearl LLC and Pearl West Investor LLC, both registered…