ESTES PARK — Given that the monstrous East Troublesome Fire two years ago this month forced the evacuation of the mountain village of Estes Park and could have consumed the town itself but for the courageous efforts of firefighters, it’s understandable that someone might have a few qualms about moving into a subdivision called “Wildfire”…
EVANS — The long-empty go-kart facility along U.S. Highway 85 in the south of Evans could soon get a revival, according to documents submitted to the city’s planning commission. The facility is located at 1112 40th St., which has operated as a go-kart track several times throughout Evans’ history. It opened as Leisureland in the…
TIMNATH – An animal hospital based in west Fort Collins will open a second location, likely later this year, on 1,250 acres of former ranch land in Timnath – land that now is being surrounded by major housing and commercial developments. Construction is under way at 5000 E. Harmony Road on an approximately 9,795-square-foot Raintree…
LAFAYETTE — A Denver-based developer of a variety of styles of commercial buildings is planning a large-scale self-storage facility in Lafayette. DCB Construction Co. Inc. has submitted special-use review applications for a three-story, 91,644-square-foot operation at 710 U.S. Highway 287. The self-storage facility would occupy the eastern half of a 2.43-acre lot currently owned by…
LOVELAND — Windsor-based general contractor Schuman Cos. completed construction this week on a pair of early-childhood centers in Loveland. Deerfield Beach, Florida-based The Learning Experience, which opened centers in Fort Collins and Timnath last fall and also has locations in Lafayette, Brighton and Westminster, will open the two similar 10,000-square-foot Loveland facilities — at 1570…
GREELEY — The city council this week approved the creation of a metro district for Two Rivers Marketplace, a proposed commercial development in northwest Greeley. Two Rivers Marketplace will be located on 29 acres of vacant land at the southwest corner of West 10th Street and 83rd Avenue. It’s bordered to the south and west…
BOULDER — In the 15 years since Boulder adopted the first phase of its Transit Village Area Plan, a guide to development and infrastructure within what is known as Boulder Junction, progress has been made toward achieving the city’s stated goal evolving the neighborhood into “a lively, mixed-use, pedestrian-oriented place where people will live, work,…
LOUISVILLE — Louisville officials are preparing to send a message to developers: If you bring forth a project that you’re called mixed-use, it’d better actually be mixed-use. At the direction of Louisville City Council, city staff are drafting a resolution of denial — a rarely used mechanism that spells out precisely why an applicant has…
BERTHOUD – It has the land, it has the design and construction contracts, and it has town planners’ approval. Now it just needs donations. Berthoud Life Center, a venture of Loveland-based nonprofit House of Neighborly Service that has been operating out the children’s building at Grace Place Church, wants to build its own 20,000-square-foot building…
FORT COLLINS – The Fort Collins Planning and Zoning Commission on Thursday is expected to make a final decision on Heart of the Rockies Christian Church’s plan for what it calls “affordable and attainable housing” on undeveloped land it owns on the city’s southeastern edge. If the commission approves, groundbreaking is likely to occur next…
GREELEY — A South Carolina developer is proposing a large new townhome development along the west side of 59th Avenue between West 10th Street and West Fourth Street. The project, Blue Spruce Townhomes, would add build-to-rent 171 housing units across 30 buildings on about 20 acres. Plans call for four-, five-, six- and seven-plexes with…
BROOMFIELD — McWhinney Real Estate Services Inc., the Loveland-based master developer of the Baseline mega-development on 1,100 acres in Broomfield south of Baseline Road, west of Interstate 25 and east of Sheridan Parkway, has broken ground on two new flex-industrial buildings on the site, the company’s third and fourth at Baseline to date. The buildings,…
BOULDER — What distinguishes a life-sciences facility from a typical flexible-use office building? And how does Boulder continue fostering its rapidly expanding biotechnology ecosystem without filling every nook and cranny with generic corporate campuses, exacerbating the city’s jobs-housing imbalance? These questions were top of mind this week when Boulder’s Planning Board held a concept review…
BROOMFIELD — Broomfield officials are becoming increasingly vocal in their efforts to ensure elements of McWhinney Real Estate Services Inc.’s Baseline mega-development meet the community’s expectations. Expressing consternation last month about potential negative impacts on future tax receipts, members of Broomfield City Council scrutinized the Loveland developer’s proposal to reduce commercial space in favor of…
FORT COLLINS — As the industrial commercial real estate market in Northern Colorado continues to remain hot, yet another large development has been proposed: a 1.05-million-square-foot industrial park at the southeast corner of Interstate 25 and East Vine Drive. The project, dubbed 25Vine, would be built on 68 acres of vacant land within the Kirschner…
GREELEY — The Greeley City Council this week unanimously approved a rezone and PUD plan for Hope Springs, the biggest affordable housing project yet built by Greeley-Weld Habitat for Humanity. The 43-acre development will be built in phases, with the first phase consisting of 22 single-family homes and 154 duplexes. The second phase will add…
LOVELAND – A family-owned brewpub has opened in one of a row of century-old downtown Loveland buildings that were redeveloped using tax-increment financing. Sky Bear Brewery & Pub, owned by Amanda Kissel and her parents, Mark and Linda Kissel, had a soft opening July 28 and has been attracting a steady stream of customers to…
ERIE — The Erie Town Center project is continuing to take shape after the town issued a request for proposals for the parcel that is intended to be the commercial and civic hub of the 145-acre development. “We’ve had these properties available right in the middle of town, and it gave us the ability to…