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Hotel Longmont rising downtown
Construction is well underway on the 85-room Hotel Longmont, and its developer has a November 2025 target date for opening it.
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Broomfield arena demo could start before Thanksgiving, cost $3.3M
Broomfield City Council this week directed city staff to move forward with a plan to demolish the Broomfield Events Center, formerly known as 1stBank Center, that could start work as early as October and cost more than $3.3 million.
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Barbecue restaurant planned for Ladera
TIMNATH — A Colorado-based chain’s plans to build its first free-standing barbecue restaurant are working their way through Timnath’s development process. According to a spokeswoman for G-Que Barbeque, final city approval and purchase of the land are in the last stages, and the owner hopes it can open by next spring. With that final approval,…
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New property owner plans Domino’s in downtown Greeley
GREELEY — A former downtown tire store is getting some new life. Plans are underway for the former Peerless Tyre Co. at 1105 11th Ave. to become a Domino’s Pizza delivery location at the corner. According to documents filed with the city, “the new owner is eager to revive this neglected property and serve the…
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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…
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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…
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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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Carl’s Jr. franchisee plans new Lafayette restaurant
LAFAYETTE — A Carl’s Jr. franchisee that owns and operates existing fast-food restaurants in Colorado is planning to bring the burger concept to Lafayette. By The Rio LLC, a company registered to a Pueblo West address, has submitted plans to the city to build a Carl’s Jr. with a drive-through lane on a vacant one-acre…
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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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Indoor sports club cleared for East Prospect
FORT COLLINS — A 24,000-square-foot indoor sports facility, primarily to house basketball and volleyball, has gotten a green light from the Fort Collins Planning and Zoning Commission. Prospect Sports Club, approved Feb.15, will be located at 1600 E. Prospect Road, on the southwest corner of Prospect Road and Sharp Point Drive, and will include two…
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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,…
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Botanic gardens, 3 residential projects eyed in Fort Collins
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…
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Plans advance to renovate historic Fort Collins building
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…
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Rocky Mountain Tap and Garden permanent beer garden design approved
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 —…
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Longmont envisions mix of funding sources for Sugar Factory, STEAM development
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…
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‘Will Vill II’ business owners face uncertain future.
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…
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Vast residential, commercial project lands with Boulder planners
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…
