LONGMONT — The Longmont Planning and Zoning Commission late last month declined to recommend for approval a plan by McDonald’s USA LLC, an affiliate of fast-food giant McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD), to build a drive-thru restaurant at Sandstone Marketplace. McDonald’s proposes a nearly 5,000-square-foot operation on just over an acre of land located south of…
BROOMFIELD — MMA Design LLC, a Louisville-based company that makes solar arrays and communications antennas for space missions, will soon begin relocating its headquarters to a newly built flex-industrial space in Broomfield’s Baseline district. The space at 1755 W. 160th Ave., which includes space for manufacturing, environmental testing and research and development, is 43,000 square…
LAFAYETTE — A developer hopes to transform the site of a shuttered Pizza Hut restaurant in Lafayette into a Dutch Bros drive-thru coffee shop. Rogue Development LLC, an entity registered to a Denver address by Greg Moran, has submitted a site-review application for the redevelopment project at 200 W. South Boulder Road. The company, which…
WESTMINSTER — An area developer is planning to build 46 duplex units on an undeveloped plot in Westminster’s Summit Pointe neighborhood that had previously been eyed for townhomes. The team, led by Otto Aichinger, presented a conceptual proposal to Westminster City Council this week. Officials spoke mostly in favor of the project. If the developer…
LOUISVILLE — The owner of a roughly two-acre parcel within Louisville’s Colorado Technology Center industrial park plans to build a self-storage facility there. Dom Kickbush, who owns the 745 S. Pierce Ave. site, is asking city officials to approve a planned-unit development, or PUD, that would allow him and DBC Construction Co. to build a…
LONGMONT — HousePad, a public-private affordable-housing partnership between Vertikal LLC and the city of Longmont, intends to include a mix of housing types for sale to a range of income levels. The project, which received key approvals from the Longmont City Council last month and is expected to total about 185 total homes, is planned…
BOULDER — Limelight Hotel Boulder is more than halfway built, and its operators expect that the 252-room inn and conference center on the University of Colorado Boulder campus will be open by late summer or early fall 2025. The hotel is expected to cost $130 million to build. Aspen Skiing Co.’s Aspen Hospitality division (formerly…
BOULDER — Boulder Housing Partners plans to add nearly 150 affordable-housing units in Boulder’s Gunbarrel neighborhood. The housing authority is under contract to purchase nearly four acres on Gunpark Drive and Spine Road, where it has proposed building 23 townhomes in two buildings, 124 apartments in five buildings and one community building. “The townhomes are…
BOULDER — A long-gestating plan to deliver new flex-industrial square footage to Boulder’s Gunbarrel neighborhood is expected to come to fruition next year. A development team led by WK Real Estate anticipates breaking ground in 2025 on the Gunbarrel Technology Center, a 66,141-square-foot project on Homestead Way near the Celestial Seasonings headquarters. “We bought the…
BOULDER — Boulder Housing Partners has submitted plans for review by Boulder officials for a 113-unit, 100% permanently affordable apartment community with an onsite daycare center. The development is proposed for 3300 Penrose Place, the long-time home of the Geological Society of America. “The proposal includes pursuit of landmarking and repurposing of the original portion…
WESTMINSTER — Members of the Westminster City Council mainly expressed support for the latest set of conceptual plans for the next phase of Dream Finders Homes Inc.’s (NYSE: DFH) Uplands mega-development. The builder — which has applied for development approval alongside VPDF Uplands LLC, an entity registered to the Minneapolis address of investment firm Varde…
WESTMINSTER — The Westminster City Council this week unanimously approved a key zoning change that allows a local developer to move forward with plans to turn an aging office building into a small apartment complex. The development team, led by 3699 West 73rd Ave LLC, an entity registered to the Wheat Ridge address of Eagle…
BROOMFIELD — Greenwood Village-based developer Lokal Homes LLC plans to build a residential community in Broomfield’s Lambertson Farms subdivision. The project, which was reviewed in its conceptual form this week by Broomfield City Council, is proposed for about 8.5 vacant acres at the northwest corner of West 136th Avenue and Huron Street and is expected…
LAFAYETTE — The construction team for Willoughby Corner, a soon-to-be-completed affordable-housing community in Lafayette, celebrated the project’s topping out last week. A topping out ceremony commemorates the completion of a building’s exterior frame. “I’m so proud of the team and their high-quality work to get us framed out,” Boulder County Housing Authority development director Molly…
LONGMONT — Atlanta-based builder Vista Residential Partners hopes to have a property on Quail Road — where it’s planning a townhome development — in unincorporated Boulder County annexed into Longmont city limits. Longmont City Council voted in late March to initiate the approval process of Vista’s annexation request of an 18.66-acre parcel at 8902 Quail…
WESTMINSTER — A developer plans to turn a vacant office building into a small apartment community. Westminster’s Planning Commission unanimously recommended approval of a zoning change and preliminary development plan for the eight-unit project at 3699 73rd Ave. on March 12. The development, led by 3699 West 73rd Ave LLC, an entity registered to the…
LAFAYETTE — A Carl’s Jr. franchisee that owns and operates existing fast-food restaurants in Colorado is planning to bring the burger concept to Lafayette. By The Rio LLC, a company registered to a Pueblo West address, has submitted plans to the city to build a Carl’s Jr. with a drive-through lane on a vacant one-acre…
LOUISVILLE — The operators of Ironton Distillery & Crafthouse, located in Denver’s River North (RiNo) neighborhood, recently won a series of key approvals to relocate its spirits-production, tasting room and hospitality facility to Louisville. The Louisville operation, which planning documents show would include a total building area of about 22,000 square feet, is planned for…