BROOMFIELD — Broomfield city officials gave their blessings this week to a flex-industrial campus proposal from Las Vegas commercial real estate developer and investment group LaPour Partners Inc., despite complaints from residents in the adjacent Arista neighborhood. The builder is eying a nearly 30-acre site east of Wadsworth Parkway, south of Parkland Street and west…
BROOMFIELD — A group of neighbors made their opposition to a Broomfield Housing Alliance plan to build an apartment building for residents with disabilities heard this week, telling Broomfield City Council members that the project is too dense and too aesthetically unappealing to be compatible with the community. “I’m very concerned that this proposal exceeds…
BROOMFIELD — Blackburn Communities LLC, a Mississippi-based real estate developer and investment group, got the final nod from Broomfield city officials this week to commence development of a new apartment complex on Wadsworth Boulevard. Broomfield City Council approved plans for the Wadsworth Junction project despite some concern that the project will be a net-negative for…
BROOMFIELD — The first portion of Flatiron Crossing owner Macerich Co.’s efforts to transform much of the Broomfield mall area into a mixed-use shopping, commercial residential and entertainment district is poised to begin in earnest after city officials gave their blessing late last month to plans for phase of the redevelopment effort. The first phase…
BOULDER — Boulder needs more housing — there are few people in positions of power who are likely to disagree — but should city officials, and the existing residents of its neighborhoods whom those people represent, accept projects that add units but could potentially alter the communities in which they’re proposed? A student-centric apartment project…
BOULDER — Boulder leaders on Thursday agreed to a future in-depth review of an ambitious mixed-use project that could transform a portion of North Boulder and test the city’s long-range neighborhood planning processes. Emerald Development LLC, a venture led by NoBo native Andrew Ghadimi, hopes to build the North Boulder Creative Campus on about two…
BROOMFIELD — Blackburn Communities LLC, a Mississippi-based real estate developer and investment group, won approval this week to move forward with plans to build a new apartment complex on Wadsworth Boulevard in Broomfield despite lingering concerns from city leaders that the project could be a drain on government coffers. Plans for the project, referred to…
LONGMONT — Village Place Apartments, a senior-living apartment community at 600 Coffman St., will be renovated in a project expected to include “exterior building, interior commons and in-unit rehabilitation; landscaping improvements and site work,” according to Lakewood-based Pinkard Construction Co., the company contracted to perform the work. The 72-unit, 69,000-square-foot community is operated by the…
LAFAYETTE — Lafayette’s long-gestating Willoughby Corner affordable-housing community could break ground this summer, project representatives told members of the Lafayette Planning Commission, who last week recommended approval of the first phase of the project. “We are so close to being able to pull building permits, get into the ground and make this affordable-housing community a…
BOULDER — A Denver-based developer is betting that Boulder’s market for flex-industrial and research and development-centric lab-office space will remain red hot. Real estate investor and developer Schnitzer West is proposing a two-building project at 5675 Arapahoe Ave. that will total 200,000 square feet. Boulder City Council opted not to call the project up for…
BROOMFIELD — McWhinney Real Estate Services Inc. won the go-ahead late last month to move forward with the latest residential phases of its Baseline mega-development, but not before company officials got an earful from several Broomfield City Council members who didn’t think that the types of homes proposed in the Parkside West neighborhood are consistent…
LONGMONT — Funding for portions of a pair of affordable-housing projects in Longmont was provided this week by city officials. Both projects — Zinnia permanent supportive housing at 2000 Sunset Way and 1764/1780 Hover St. affordable housing — will take advantage of Longmont’s pool of American Rescue Plan Act money provided during the COVID-19 pandemic…
LONGMONT — Prospect New Town, Longmont’s iconic New Urbanist community, will be nearing buildout with the construction of 180 new housing units and 16,288 square feet of commercial space, a project given the green light this month by Longmont’s Planning and Zoning Commission. Michigan-based Shaheen Development, doing business in this case as SSP Associates Inc.,…
BOULDER — A plan to build a new townhome community with a significant affordable-housing component on a parcel of what is now unincorporated Boulder County received praise this week by Boulder city officials and scrutiny from neighbors who say the project is too dense and inappropriately located. Fulton Hill Properties, a Richmond, Virginia-based residential developer,…
LOUISVILLE — A Louisville neighborhood more than 15 years in the making is moving toward completion as city officials gave their blessing to a set of land-use measures for the final phase of development at North End on South Boulder Road. Boulder developer Markel Homes Construction Co. is planning to build 38 new residential units…
BOULDER — Boulder officials gave their blessing this week to a set of tweaks to the city’s development site-review standards that aim to simplify the process for builders and those responsible for evaluating proposals. The second-reading approval by Boulder City Council of the site-review updates effectively ends Boulder’s years-long “community benefit” effort, intended to provide…
LONGMONT — Macy Development Co. plans to build a flex-industrial building next to a busy retail center in Longmont. Plans, which were approved this week by Longmont City Council, call for a 32,700-square-foot structure on nearly four acres on Dry Creek Drive adjacent to the Home Depot and Target stores that operate off of Hover…
BOULDER — A developer plans to knock down an aging Boulder apartment complex and rebuild a much denser multi-family community. The Glenwood Village Apartments at 2747 Glenwood Court, which sold in 2021 for nearly $17 million, has 48 units spread across about three acres. The existing community, according to a memo provided to Boulder city…