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…
BOULDER — Local developer Tebo Properties Inc. is proposing an adaptive repurposing of 1105 and 1111 Spruce St. that would connect the two buildings and convert them into a boutique hotel. “This is an incredible location right downtown,” Tebo told BizWest. “It’s going to have very, very upscale rooms compared to anything else that Boulder…
FORT COLLINS — The former DMA Plaza apartment building at 300 Remington St. in downtown Fort Collins has taken on a new life as The Remington, a senior living facility. The newly remodeled and refurbished 11-story facility, updated from its 1973 origins, has now been unveiled to the public with a virtual grand opening available…
JOHNSTOWN — The developer behind Johnstown Plaza could be bringing another large mixed-use project to the area. According to an economic-impact analysis of the project presented to the town council late last month, Carson Development Inc. is exploring a 237-acre development at the southeast corner of Interstate 25 and Colorado Highway 60 that could include…
BOULDER — One of the last remaining Boulder-based vestiges of Colorado’s first craft brewery is gone. The Boulder Beer Co. brewpub space at 2880 Wilderness Place, which closed about a year and a half ago, has been sold by the brewery’s founders. Founders Gina and Frank Day, through holding company 2880 Wilderness Inc., offloaded the…
GREELEY — In 2017, Heather Bean, the founder and owner of Syntax Distillery, was looking for a new building. Syntax had leased space in an industrial park on Third Street since Bean and her business partner Jeff Copeland started the business in 2010. Seven years in, they wanted to purchase a building in a better…
BROOMFIELD — Tim Wiens and his full-service real estate firm, Wiens Real Estate Ventures LLC, purchased the land that would become Arista in six parcels in the early 2000s, when the more than 200 acres for the property were nearly vacant. The widened and lengthened 120th Avenue hadn’t been extended to cross U.S. Highway 36….
