BROOMFIELD — The first portion of Flatiron Crossing owner Macerich Co.’s efforts to transform much of the Broomfield mall area into a mixed-use shopping, commercial residential and entertainment district is poised to begin in earnest after city officials gave their blessing late last month to plans for phase of the redevelopment effort. The first phase…
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…
Downtown Longmont building set to open in December LONGMONT — Construction continues on a three-story mixed-use building on the northwest corner of Ninth Avenue and Main Street in downtown Longmont. Its leasing agent, Chris Wynja of Keller Williams Commercial, sees it as a game-changer. “We really think it’s going to be a catalyst for that…
BROOMFIELD — McWhinney Real Estate Services Inc. won the go-ahead late last month to move forward with the latest residential phases of its Baseline mega-development, but not before company officials got an earful from several Broomfield City Council members who didn’t think that the types of homes proposed in the Parkside West neighborhood are consistent…
LONGMONT — Prospect New Town, Longmont’s iconic New Urbanist community, will be nearing buildout with the construction of 180 new housing units and 16,288 square feet of commercial space, a project given the green light this month by Longmont’s Planning and Zoning Commission. Michigan-based Shaheen Development, doing business in this case as SSP Associates Inc.,…
LOUISVILLE — A Louisville neighborhood more than 15 years in the making is moving toward completion as city officials gave their blessing to a set of land-use measures for the final phase of development at North End on South Boulder Road. Boulder developer Markel Homes Construction Co. is planning to build 38 new residential units…
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…
BERTHOUD — What developer Scott Charpentier describes as a “pretty big project, a town transformational project,” is finally set to rise at a highly visible intersection in Berthoud. Charpentier’s Berthoud Gateway LLC is developing lots for duplexes and retail buildings on 21 acres at the northeast corner of U.S. Highway 287 and Mountain Avenue. He…
LONGMONT — For the better part of a century, a factory off Colorado Highway 119 on the east side of Longmont pumped out hundreds of million pounds of sugar — processed from beers — every year. Abandoned in the 1970s, the plant and surrounding property have since sat idle, growing increasingly decrepit by the day,…
FORT COLLINS — The Community of Christ Church at 220 E. Oak St. is slated for redevelopment, according to planning documents filed with the city. Plans call for the church at the northwest corner of East Oak Street and Mathews Street to be demolished and converted into a mixed-use residential and commercial project. The project…
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…
BROOMFIELD — The second phase of the Flatiron Marketplace redevelopment project is under way as city staff review plans that would more than double the amount of housing units available in the development. Plans call for the second phase to add 350 units of multifamily housing and 2,500 square feet of commercial space to the…
BOULDER — A project on Boulder’s Spruce Street that’s nearly two years in the making has been modified to include onsite affordable housing in an effort by its developer to qualify for a building-height exemption. Papilio, a mostly multifamily residential project proposed for 2504 Spruce St. by Pace Development LLC, calls for 101 condominium units…
BOULDER — In the 15 years since Boulder adopted the first phase of its Transit Village Area Plan, a guide to development and infrastructure within what is known as Boulder Junction, progress has been made toward achieving the city’s stated goal evolving the neighborhood into “a lively, mixed-use, pedestrian-oriented place where people will live, work,…
LOUISVILLE — Louisville officials are preparing to send a message to developers: If you bring forth a project that you’re called mixed-use, it’d better actually be mixed-use. At the direction of Louisville City Council, city staff are drafting a resolution of denial — a rarely used mechanism that spells out precisely why an applicant has…
BROOMFIELD — Broomfield officials are becoming increasingly vocal in their efforts to ensure elements of McWhinney Real Estate Services Inc.’s Baseline mega-development meet the community’s expectations. Expressing consternation last month about potential negative impacts on future tax receipts, members of Broomfield City Council scrutinized the Loveland developer’s proposal to reduce commercial space in favor of…
ERIE — The Erie Town Center project is continuing to take shape after the town issued a request for proposals for the parcel that is intended to be the commercial and civic hub of the 145-acre development. “We’ve had these properties available right in the middle of town, and it gave us the ability to…
GREELEY — After its PUD was approved by the city council, the 822-acre Delantero master-planned community is ready to get underway. The community is being developed by Denver-based Stratus Cos. It will be located on vacant land in west Greeley, south of U.S. Highway 34, north of Weld County Road 56, west of Colorado Highway…