FIRESTONE — Officials of the town of Firestone and the construction team held a groundbreaking ceremony Sept. 26 for Firestone Junction, a 300-unit apartment complex in the Firestone City Centre development, southeast of the interchange of Interstate 25 and Colorado Highway 119. The complex will rise on a 19.3-acre tract stretching from the rear of…
BOULDER — Boulder Housing Partners is planning to build 44 affordable homes at 3125 34th St. Representatives for the project, which is in the Orchard Grove neighborhood, presented conceptual plans last week to the Boulder Planning Board. Those plans include building “permanently affordable townhouse units, with a mixture of two-story, two-bedroom units and one-story, one-bedroom…
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…
JOHNSTOWN — The Johnstown Town Council has approved the final plat for a development on the southeast corner of Interstate 25 and Larimer County Road 18E, also known as Colorado Highway 402. J-25 Land Holdings LLC, a division of Scottsdale, Arizona, company Caliber Services LLC, sought what it described as an interim subdivision called The…
WESTMINSTER — A vacant parcel in the interior of Westminster’s Shoenberg Farm property could soon be home to a mixed-use building with shops on the ground floor and apartments on the two upper floors, while the longer-term plan for an adjacent parcel with historical significance envisions a food hall that could turn the property into…
LOVELAND — The lockers are empty, classrooms cleaned out and the cafeteria now a mid-day destination of the past. Monroe Elementary has taught its last cadre of students. And the building will be razed. Developer United Property Development LLC of Minneapolis and Denver bought the 6.61-acre property from the Thompson School District for $6 million….
WESTMINSTER — Urban Cottages LLC plans to build a townhome project at the former site of one of Westminster’s iconic watering holes, a plan the developer is calling a test case for modular, workforce housing in Westminster’s Alpine Vista neighborhood. In a public hearing before Westminster City Council this week, UC presented its conceptual plans,…
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…
FORT COLLINS — Ground was broken in late May for construction of The Granary, a 264-unit, garden-style multifamily property at the intersection of South College Avenue and West Fairway Lane in Fort Collins. Jennifer Quigley, managing director in the Denver office of Berkadia Proprietary Holdings LLC, secured a 40-year, $55.9 million construction loan on behalf…
GREELEY — Continental Properties held an open house Friday to showcase Authentix Greeley, a garden-style residential community on the northwest corner of U.S. Highway 34 Bypass and 71st Avenue in Greeley, with market-priced units that are ready for immediate occupancy. Featuring 288 apartment homes with studio, one-, two-, and three-bedroom options, the community has immediate…
WESTMINSTER — Westminster’s Planning Commission last month gave its unanimous blessing to a plan by an out-of-state developer to build a new townhome community on a nearly 2.5-acre vacant lot at the southwest corner of West 92nd Avenue and Pierce Street. The project, known as Greenlawn, will be developed by Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based Pierce…
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,”…
BROOMFIELD — A group of neighbors made their opposition to a Broomfield Housing Alliance plan to build an apartment building for residents with disabilities heard this week, telling Broomfield City Council members that the project is too dense and too aesthetically unappealing to be compatible with the community. “I’m very concerned that this proposal exceeds…
BROOMFIELD — Blackburn Communities LLC, a Mississippi-based real estate developer and investment group, got the final nod from Broomfield city officials this week to commence development of a new apartment complex on Wadsworth Boulevard. Broomfield City Council approved plans for the Wadsworth Junction project despite some concern that the project will be a net-negative for…
FORT COLLINS — Hartford Homes has broken ground on a master-planned community that it hopes will help transform the East Mulberry Street corridor. The latest addition to the Bloom development will include more than 1,800 single- and multifamily residences and up to 35 acres of retail, commercial and office uses, as well as a five-acre…
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 needs more housing — there are few people in positions of power who are likely to disagree — but should city officials, and the existing residents of its neighborhoods whom those people represent, accept projects that add units but could potentially alter the communities in which they’re proposed? A student-centric apartment project…
LOVELAND — An apartment complex is rising along 14th Street Southwest just west of Taft Avenue in Loveland. Designed by Fort Collins-based Ripley Design and built by North Dakota-based Axia Contracting, Vantage at Loveland, 1400 S. Tyler Ave., will include 288 units, more than half of which will be one-bedroom apartments, while the rest will…