WESTMINSTER — Westminster’s Planning Commission last month gave its unanimous blessing to a plan by an out-of-state developer to build a new townhome community on a nearly 2.5-acre vacant lot at the southwest corner of West 92nd Avenue and Pierce Street. The project, known as Greenlawn, will be developed by Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based Pierce…
JOHNSTOWN – Construction is picking up steam at the southeast corner of Interstate 25 and Colorado Highway 60, as the Ledge Rock Center gradually takes shape. “We’ll have a Murdoch’s store open by the end of the year, the Woods supermarket in the second quarter of 2024 and some apartments done in the third quarter,”…
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…
LONGMONT — Final work is being completed on two new, larger fire stations in Longmont to replace ones that were built more than 50 years ago. The new Fire Station No. 2 on 17th Avenue just east of Hover Street in northwest Longmont, being built by Thornton-based general contractor Taylor Kohrs, will likely be open…
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…
FORT COLLINS — Hartford Homes has broken ground on a master-planned community that it hopes will help transform the East Mulberry Street corridor. The latest addition to the Bloom development will include more than 1,800 single- and multifamily residences and up to 35 acres of retail, commercial and office uses, as well as a five-acre…
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…
FORT COLLINS — Tribe Development Co. LLC and the Colmena Group have purchased a lot at the corner of Cherry Street and Mason Street in Fort Collins, where they plan to develop rental housing. The property, 209 Cherry St., had been owned by Cherry & Mason Investments, a company affiliated with Affinity Real Estate Partners…
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…
LOVELAND — An apartment complex is rising along 14th Street Southwest just west of Taft Avenue in Loveland. Designed by Fort Collins-based Ripley Design and built by North Dakota-based Axia Contracting, Vantage at Loveland, 1400 S. Tyler Ave., will include 288 units, more than half of which will be one-bedroom apartments, while the rest will…
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…
GREELEY — The Greeley City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a tax-increment financing agreement through the city’s Downtown Development Authority for a 194-unit apartment building with units renting at market rates. The plan has “been scaled back a little bit” from the original proposal from Richmark Homes and Indianapolis-based developer Milhaus Inc., noted Bianca Fisher,…
FORT COLLINS — Planning and economic-development officials from 10 Northern Colorado communities will highlight key development activity within their cities at the sixth annual Northern Colorado Real Estate Summit, Wednesday, April 5. Real estate professionals are eligible to earn eight continuing-education credits at the event, which will take place at the Hilton Fort Collins. The…
BOULDER — The city of Boulder will break ground Wednesday on a branch library on the city’s north end — its first new library branch in 36 years. Construction is expected to take 10 to 12 months, and the 12,000-square-foot facility is slated to open in early 2024. The public is being invited to attend…
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…