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Longmont planning officials support new Ziggi’s Coffee drive-through cafe

LONGMONT — Longmont’s Planning and Zoning Commission gave their blessing this month to a plan from Ziggi’s Coffee to build a new coffee shop and cafe in the city where the growing chain was born.  The 1,800-square-foot establishment is planned for about 1.8 acres at the southwest corner of Airport Road and Clover Basin Drive…

Dutch Bros Pizza Hut
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Ex-Pizza Hut in Lafayette could become Dutch Bros coffee shop

LAFAYETTE — A developer hopes to transform the site of a shuttered Pizza Hut restaurant in Lafayette into a Dutch Bros drive-thru coffee shop.  Rogue Development LLC, an entity registered to a Denver address by Greg Moran, has submitted a site-review application for the redevelopment project at 200 W. South Boulder Road. The company, which…

Limelight Boulder
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Limelight hotel on CU Boulder campus half-built, mid-2025 opening eyed

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…

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RiNo’s Ironton Distillery gets OK for Louisville relocation

LOUISVILLE —  The operators of Ironton Distillery & Crafthouse, located in Denver’s River North (RiNo) neighborhood, recently won a series of key approvals to relocate its spirits-production, tasting room and hospitality facility to Louisville.  The Louisville operation, which planning documents show would include a total building area of about 22,000 square feet, is planned for…

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Mixed commercial uses planned on 90 acres near Westminster Lowe’s store

WESTMINSTER — Schuck Chapman Cos., a Colorado Springs commercial real estate developer, received the go-ahead this week from Westminster city officials for a land-use change that could set the stage for a large office, flex-industrial and retail project near Interstate 25. The project, known now as Novera Business District and formerly as Foster Farms, is…

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Denver’s Bigsby’s Folly Winery & Restaurant plans Superior expansion

SUPERIOR — First it was COVID-19 in 2020. Then, in 2021, it was the Marshall Fire. Some business operators would have abandoned expansion plans, but not Marla Yetka and Chad Yetka, the couple who co-founded Bigsby’s Folly Winery & Restaurant in Denver’s River North neighborhood in 2017. “About a year or two after we opened,…