After several years and several iterations, a plan to build townhomes on the 2500 block of Spruce Street in Boulder is moving forward after city officials declined this month to call the project up for additional scrutiny.
Members of the Boulder Planning Board last week decided to take a closer look at plans to build a large commercial project on Arapahoe Avenue that the developer says will be geared toward life-sciences uses.
BOULDER — Boulder Housing Partners, the city’s public housing authority, broke ground this summer on the Hawthorn Court affordable apartment community, part of a broader redevelopment effort ongoing around the long-neglected Diagonal Plaza shopping-center site. “Hawthorn’s 73 apartments will serve families earning between 30% and 60% of Area Median Income (AMI) as well as families…
BOULDER — A new apartment building with 22 units is being planned for a portion of the parking lot in front of the Cottonwood Apartments complex in Boulder. Rubicon Development LLC, an entity controlled by Michael Bosma, has submitted plans to the city that call for the construction of a new, three-story building adjacent to…
BOULDER — Limelight Hotel Boulder is more than halfway built, and its operators expect that the 252-room inn and conference center on the University of Colorado Boulder campus will be open by late summer or early fall 2025. The hotel is expected to cost $130 million to build. Aspen Skiing Co.’s Aspen Hospitality division (formerly…
BOULDER — Boulder Housing Partners plans to add nearly 150 affordable-housing units in Boulder’s Gunbarrel neighborhood. The housing authority is under contract to purchase nearly four acres on Gunpark Drive and Spine Road, where it has proposed building 23 townhomes in two buildings, 124 apartments in five buildings and one community building. “The townhomes are…
BOULDER — Boulder Housing Partners has submitted plans for review by Boulder officials for a 113-unit, 100% permanently affordable apartment community with an onsite daycare center. The development is proposed for 3300 Penrose Place, the long-time home of the Geological Society of America. “The proposal includes pursuit of landmarking and repurposing of the original portion…
BOULDER — The Pearl East Innovation Building, a planned life-sciences-focused flex space in Boulder’s Pearl East Business Park, moved a step closer to construction last week when Boulder’s Planning Board declined to call up a minor site review amendment requested by the project’s developer. A “call up” allows for the Planning Board or Boulder City…
BOULDER — A property on Arapahoe Avenue adjacent to Boulder High School that is currently home to the Thrive smoothie shop is being eyed for residential redevelopment. A developer has submitted plans to the city to scrape the site at 1509 Arapahoe Ave. and build eight, three-story townhomes. Plans for the project, submitted by 1509…
BOULDER — Boulder city officials, when they adopted the East Boulder Subcommunity plan last year, set forth a vision for the neighborhood that includes more housing around employment centers and office parks, including the Flatiron Park campus. City planning leaders are now reckoning with the fact that their vision for east Boulder may end up…
BOULDER COUNTY — A plan for a small residential neighborhood in an enclave of unincorporated Boulder County that could soon be annexed into Boulder city limits includes on-site affordable housing. Peacock Place, on about 5.5 acres at 5691 South Boulder Road, is expected to include 16 new homes, including a comparatively large single-family for the…
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…
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…
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…
LAFAYETTE — Lafayette could soon have 400 new affordable units from the Boulder County Housing Authority, more than doubling the agency’s current home count in the city. The Lafayette Planning Commission unanimously recommended approval of a zoning change request for Willoughby Corner, a mix of rental and for-sale units at North 120th Street and East…
BROOMFIELD — A Maryland developer is planning a four-building, 500,000-square-foot Class A office park in the heart of the Interlocken area, according to marketing materials produced by the broker for the project. Interlocken Innovation Campus, as the development is dubbed, would be built on two vacant parcels totaling 17.6 acres at the northwest corner of…