LONGMONT — A split Longmont City Council gave its blessing this week to a conceptual plan to build a mix of housing types on nearly six acres in the Bohn Farm neighborhood. City officials, in an attempt to appease both developer Mark Young and a vocal group of neighbors who oppose the project, capped the…
LOVELAND — Residents will soon get a look at revised plans for a large freight transfer facility just north of Northern Colorado Regional Airport on the eastern edge of Loveland. A neighborhood meeting has been scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 26 at the city’s Development Services Building, 410 E. Fifth St. in Loveland….
BOULDER — In an unusual move that could become more commonplace, a local developer is planning to build a multifamily residential community in a Boulder business park. Markel Homes Construction Co. presented plans this week to Boulder Planning Board members that call for apartments — mostly efficiency living units, or ELUs — offices and a…
FIRESTONE — Officials of the town of Firestone and the construction team held a groundbreaking ceremony Sept. 26 for Firestone Junction, a 300-unit apartment complex in the Firestone City Centre development, southeast of the interchange of Interstate 25 and Colorado Highway 119. The complex will rise on a 19.3-acre tract stretching from the rear of…
BOULDER — Boulder Housing Partners is planning to build 44 affordable homes at 3125 34th St. Representatives for the project, which is in the Orchard Grove neighborhood, presented conceptual plans last week to the Boulder Planning Board. Those plans include building “permanently affordable townhouse units, with a mixture of two-story, two-bedroom units and one-story, one-bedroom…
LONGMONT — As Longmont’s ambitious, long-gestating plans to develop and redevelop the Sugar Factory and STEAM areas south of downtown come into focus, city staffers are emphasizing the need to establish a diverse mix of funding sources for the projects with the lion’s share of capital coming from the private sector. Broad plans for the…
BRIGHTON — Rezoning of the former Kmart Distribution Center at 18875 Bromley Lane to allow for a lithium-ion battery-production plant received approval on first reading Tuesday by the Brighton City Council. The council voted 4-3 to allow the Mile High Logistics Center planned development on the 103.3-acre property — superseding the existing Kmart planned unit…
BOULDER — The new owner of Moe’s Original BBQ in south Boulder doesn’t shy from talking about a developer’s plan to flatten the strip mall that houses his restaurant to make way for 610 apartments in six high-rise buildings. The same cannot be said for the owners of other businesses at the southeast quadrant of…
BOULDER — A sweeping redevelopment proposal for one of Boulder’s most-traveled corners would put more than 600 apartments on a site now occupied by some of the city’s most iconic bars and other businesses. Williams Village II planners seek to build 726,000 square feet of space in six buildings, four and five stories tall, designed…
LOVELAND — Faced with strident opposition from neighbors and a Loveland Planning Commission that resisted making changes to the city’s comprehensive plan, McWhinney Real Estate Services Inc. has withdrawn its application for annexation and high-density zoning of a 52-acre parcel on the shores of Boyd Lake that it called Centerra West. The Loveland-based developer in…
JOHNSTOWN — The Johnstown Town Council has approved the final plat for a development on the southeast corner of Interstate 25 and Larimer County Road 18E, also known as Colorado Highway 402. J-25 Land Holdings LLC, a division of Scottsdale, Arizona, company Caliber Services LLC, sought what it described as an interim subdivision called The…
SEVERANCE — Construction is underway on the Windsor-based Clearview Library District’s second branch, a 10,000-square-foot facility just west of the town hall in Severance. Ground was broken May 22 for the new library, which is being built by Centennial-based Fransen Pittman Construction with architecture by Denver-based Ratio Design and is scheduled to open next February….
WINDSOR — The Woodmont Co., headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, has broken ground on a Windsor development that will become the Kiddie Academy of Windsor, a child development center. The Kiddie Academy of Windsor is owned by local franchisees Nanette Cohen and Devon Cohen, owners of Today’s Life LLC based in Fort Collins. The academy…
WINDSOR — The Windsor Police Department is getting a new $30 million police headquarters.that’s more than double the size of its current facility. Ground was broken Aug. 11 for the new 43,000-square-foot building at 960 N. 15th St., which will replace a 15,715-square-foot building at 200 N. 11th St. when it opens in early 2025….
WESTMINSTER — National homebuilder Pulte Homes is proposing to bring 62 duplex units to a fairly tight piece of vacant property in the Westminster’s Walnut Grove neighborhood. The developer presented a conceptual plan for the new community to the Westminster City Council this week that calls for the construction of the 62 units on 10.69…
BOULDER — Local real estate investment and development company Conscience Bay Co. LLC plans to build what it calls a first-of-its kind green office-laboratory flex space on Walnut Street in Boulder. The project, first introduced in a conceptual form last year, calls for a 112,600 square-foot, two-story facility at 3825 Walnut St. “This (will be)…
LONGMONT — Named for a Rocky Mountain wildflower, the mixed-use Lupine development is blooming along the south side of the Diagonal Highway just west of Hover Street and Oskar Blues Liquids & Solids. Lupine, at 1901 S. Hover St., was originally planned as “Hover Junction” by Highland Development Co., the development arm of Denver-based MP…
BOULDER — After about 10 hours of debate spread across three Boulder Planning Board meetings, the body finally recommended approval this week of plans to transform the aging Millennium Harvest House hotel site into housing for University of Colorado Boulder students. The recommendation, which includes an amendment requiring that planned pickleball courts, a dog park…