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…
BOULDER COUNTY — Details have begun to emerge about what precisely Chicagoland builder Kensington Development Partners has in mind for a 40-acre plot of vacant land in Boulder County due west of Erie’s Nine Mile shopping center. The developer, which had declined to provide much specificity about its vision for the Lafayette Marketplace project during…
BROOMFIELD — McWhinney Real Estate Services Inc.’s Baseline mega-development in Broomfield continues to take shape, as the city’s Land Use Review Commission unanimously recommended approval this month of a development plan for the project’s latest residential component. Phases 3 and 4 of Baseline’s Parkside West neighborhood is planned to include 232 residential lots with a…
LONGMONT — A plan to annex nearly eight acres of unincorporated Boulder County in Longmont for the purpose of building a small new residential development was approved by city officials this week despite objections from neighbors who raised concerns about traffic impact. West View Estates LLC has proposed subdividing “22 lots for single family detached…
LOUISVILLE — RecycledPhoto LLC, a Louisville business that buys, sells and repairs cameras and photography equipment, needs more space, and its owners are planning to build a flex-industrial building adjacent to the company’s Colorado Technology Center operations to house an expansion with space to lease to other tenants. “We’ve outgrown our space pretty dramatically,” Vahe…
BOULDER — A South Dakota developer with plans to build a Holiday Inn Express hotel in Boulder — already a half-decade in the making — has been granted a three-year extension to get its project off the ground. The Boulder Planning Commission last month voted unanimously to allow Lamont Cos.’ approved 2018 site review to…
LOUISVILLE — In what appears to be an attempt to cash in on the seemingly unquenchable appetite for biotechnology and life-sciences-centric flex space in the Boulder Valley, a developer with an already approved plan to build an office project in Louisville’s Colorado Technology Center office park is shifting gears. Architect Andy Johnson and property owner…
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,…
LAFAYETTE — Chicago real estate developer and investor Sterling Bay Cos. LLC is transforming a Lafayette Corporate Campus office building formerly leased to Ball Corp. (NYSE: BLL) into a speculative flex space geared toward biotechnology tenants. The company, which bought the Campus Drive property as part of a $74.5 million portfolio acquisition deal in 2021…
LAFAYETTE — Chicagoland builder Kensington Development Partners intends to transform a roughly 40-acre vacant lot in Boulder County due west of Erie’s Nine Mile shopping center into a new mixed-use district that could eventually be home to residences, a variety of businesses and perhaps even lodging. Representatives with the developer, its consultants and Lafeyette’s planning…
BOULDER — A project on Boulder’s Spruce Street that’s nearly two years in the making has been modified to include onsite affordable housing in an effort by its developer to qualify for a building-height exemption. Papilio, a mostly multifamily residential project proposed for 2504 Spruce St. by Pace Development LLC, calls for 101 condominium units…
BROOMFIELD — Despite an increasing reticence by Broomfield officials to give their blessing to resident projects in parts of the city designated for commercial development, the city’s Land Use Review Committee voted unanimously this week to recommend approval of a proposal to build nearly 300 apartments off of West 169th Avenue. The project, known as…
BROOMFIELD — Unfortunately for Salt Lake City-based Wasatch Residential Group, the developer’s second attempt to win support for an apartment project in Broomfield was received much like its first in late 2021: unenthusiastically. During a study session this week, a concept review was presented for Avenue 120, a project on about 15 acres near the…
LOVELAND — McWhinney Real Estate Services Inc. is continuing the growth of its 3,000-acre Centerra mega-development in Loveland with the construction of a large, new industrial space just off Crossroads Boulevard and Interstate 25. The project, known as Precision Industrial, will feature a 164,000-square-foot building on the 11.6-acre site at 3645 Precision Drive. It is…