FORT COLLINS — A proposed botanical garden in west Fort Collins and three proposed residential projects including a seven-story condo building got looks from city staffers on Thursday. City planners reviewed the concept for “Sagrada Botanical Gardens” on 1.7 acres at 2035 W. Mulberry St., east of South Taft Hill Road, Applicant Heather Goldstein is…
FORT COLLINS – A plan to renovate a 116-year-old downtown Fort Collins building for a mix of commercial units got a warm reception from city planners on Wednesday during its preliminary design review. Applicant Joshua Guernsey, a broker at Waypoint Real Estate, is partnering with the family that owns the building to redevelop the William…
LOUISVILLE — A little more than a year after Louisville City Council issued a 12-month temporary use permit for the beer garden at Rocky Mountain Tap and Garden — a stop-gap measure taken only after the establishment’s owners jumped the gun and began building the beer garden before winning full approval from the city —…
LONGMONT — As Longmont’s ambitious, long-gestating plans to develop and redevelop the Sugar Factory and STEAM areas south of downtown come into focus, city staffers are emphasizing the need to establish a diverse mix of funding sources for the projects with the lion’s share of capital coming from the private sector. Broad plans for the…
BOULDER — The new owner of Moe’s Original BBQ in south Boulder doesn’t shy from talking about a developer’s plan to flatten the strip mall that houses his restaurant to make way for 610 apartments in six high-rise buildings. The same cannot be said for the owners of other businesses at the southeast quadrant of…
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…
BOULDER — After about 10 hours of debate spread across three Boulder Planning Board meetings, the body finally recommended approval this week of plans to transform the aging Millennium Harvest House hotel site into housing for University of Colorado Boulder students. The recommendation, which includes an amendment requiring that planned pickleball courts, a dog park…
WESTMINSTER — A unique condominium project in Westminster could bring a new type of business to the Bradburn neighborhood: a rooftop restaurant and bar. Developer Jonathan Nassar has proposed construction of 64 for-sale multi-family units at a site on the 4100 block of Main Street. Westminster’s Planning Commission recommended approval of preliminary plans for the…
BOULDER — In response to post-COVID-19 consumer trends, Avery Brewing Co. is planning to add a new patio that will more than triple the outdoor square footage at its brewery and taphouse in Gunbarrel. Avery’s plans, reviewed briefly by the Boulder Planning Board this week, call for a new 7,062-square-foot outdoor seating area to be…
JOHNSTOWN – Construction is picking up steam at the southeast corner of Interstate 25 and Colorado Highway 60, as the Ledge Rock Center gradually takes shape. “We’ll have a Murdoch’s store open by the end of the year, the Woods supermarket in the second quarter of 2024 and some apartments done in the third quarter,”…
BOULDER — Boulder leaders on Thursday agreed to a future in-depth review of an ambitious mixed-use project that could transform a portion of North Boulder and test the city’s long-range neighborhood planning processes. Emerald Development LLC, a venture led by NoBo native Andrew Ghadimi, hopes to build the North Boulder Creative Campus on about two…
BOULDER COUNTY — Details have begun to emerge about what precisely Chicagoland builder Kensington Development Partners has in mind for a 40-acre plot of vacant land in Boulder County due west of Erie’s Nine Mile shopping center. The developer, which had declined to provide much specificity about its vision for the Lafayette Marketplace project during…
BOULDER — A South Dakota developer with plans to build a Holiday Inn Express hotel in Boulder — already a half-decade in the making — has been granted a three-year extension to get its project off the ground. The Boulder Planning Commission last month voted unanimously to allow Lamont Cos.’ approved 2018 site review to…
LAFAYETTE — Chicagoland builder Kensington Development Partners intends to transform a roughly 40-acre vacant lot in Boulder County due west of Erie’s Nine Mile shopping center into a new mixed-use district that could eventually be home to residences, a variety of businesses and perhaps even lodging. Representatives with the developer, its consultants and Lafeyette’s planning…
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…
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…
BOULDER — Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers’ plans to open a new restaurant and drive-through in Boulder were shot down Thursday evening as the Boulder City Council opted not to call up the project after a decision by the city’s Planning Board to reject the popular Louisiana-born fast-food chain’s application. Concerns from the Planning Board, which…
LOVELAND — A request for proposals to build a hotel and conference center as part of the expansion of the Larimer County Ranch Events Complex in east Loveland was met with no interest. The RFP, published Feb. 24 and closed to submissions April 7, generated no proposals. The county is now trying to figure out…