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, but that…
Longmont businessman Bill Novell is planning to develop three commercial buildings with ground-floor retail and restaurant uses with offices above, including one restaurant with a drive-through.
Boulder and Flatirons Habitat for Humanity are redeveloping the roughly 70-unit park to keep it of the hands of developers and maintain one of the few pockets of affordable housing in Boulder.
Habitat for Humanity of the St. Vrain Valley plans to increase Longmont’s affordable-housing stock with a new project on Rogers Road near the intersection of Martin Street and Third Avenue.