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 — Ground has been broken for the first phase of an industrial manufacturing and distribution project in Loveland that eventually will encompass around 1 million square feet, developers say. The Boyd Lake Commerce Center is launching with the speculative construction of a 100,117-square-foot free-standing building on nine acres that can accommodate a single- or…
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…
BROOMFIELD — The Texas-based development group behind the Colorado Research Exchange, a planned research-and-development-forward office-laboratory flex campus in Broomfield’s Interlocken business park, are moving forward with the project with the solid backing of city officials. The Broomfield City Council unanimously signed off plans Tuesday evening for the Colorado Research Exchange, also known as CoRE and…
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…