Mixed-Use
Sugar Mill rendering
Design elements for Sugar Mill Station were selected to “highlight the past industrial nature of the site,” project representative and Norris Design principal Leanne Vielehr said. Source: Longmont planning documents.

Apartment community planned in shadow of Longmont’s long-shuttered sugar factory

LONGMONT — For the better part of a century, a factory off Colorado Highway 119 on the east side of Longmont pumped out hundreds of million pounds of sugar — processed from beers — every year. Abandoned in the 1970s, the plant and surrounding property have since sat idle, growing increasingly decrepit by the day,…



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