GREELEY — The Greeley City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a tax-increment financing agreement through the city’s Downtown Development Authority for a 194-unit apartment building with units renting at market rates. The plan has “been scaled back a little bit” from the original proposal from Richmark Homes and Indianapolis-based developer Milhaus Inc., noted Bianca Fisher,…
BOULDER — The city of Boulder will break ground Wednesday on a branch library on the city’s north end — its first new library branch in 36 years. Construction is expected to take 10 to 12 months, and the 12,000-square-foot facility is slated to open in early 2024. The public is being invited to attend…
LAFAYETTE — Lafayette’s long-gestating Willoughby Corner affordable-housing community could break ground this summer, project representatives told members of the Lafayette Planning Commission, who last week recommended approval of the first phase of the project. “We are so close to being able to pull building permits, get into the ground and make this affordable-housing community a…
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…
BOULDER — A Denver-based developer is betting that Boulder’s market for flex-industrial and research and development-centric lab-office space will remain red hot. Real estate investor and developer Schnitzer West is proposing a two-building project at 5675 Arapahoe Ave. that will total 200,000 square feet. Boulder City Council opted not to call the project up for…
GREELEY — Two hundred luxury apartment homes are coming to a seven-acre tract in west Greeley. Richmark Cos. broke ground in November on Alpine Flats, a collection of studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom units at 20th Street and 50th Avenue, and expects to have them completed by midsummer 2024. Pre-leases are already being accepted, and…
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 — Funding for portions of a pair of affordable-housing projects in Longmont was provided this week by city officials. Both projects — Zinnia permanent supportive housing at 2000 Sunset Way and 1764/1780 Hover St. affordable housing — will take advantage of Longmont’s pool of American Rescue Plan Act money provided during the COVID-19 pandemic…
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.,…
TIMNATH — Townhomes, single-family residences and homes with garages in the rear are all part of Hartford Homes’ growing inventory at the Trailside on Harmony development, rising south of Harmony Road and about two miles east of Interstate 25 in Timnath. Hartford has 321 of the total 572 single- and multi-family homesites in Trailside, while…
FREDERICK – Frigid temperatures and snow-covered grounds didn’t stop officials from Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) from breaking ground Thursday on the $725 million, 198,000-square-foot expansion of its oligo manufacturing facility in Frederick’s Eagle Business Park. Agilent, based in Santa Clara, California, expects that the expansion in Frederick will add more than 160 jobs and…
BOULDER — A plan to build a new townhome community with a significant affordable-housing component on a parcel of what is now unincorporated Boulder County received praise this week by Boulder city officials and scrutiny from neighbors who say the project is too dense and inappropriately located. Fulton Hill Properties, a Richmond, Virginia-based residential developer,…
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 — Boulder officials gave their blessing this week to a set of tweaks to the city’s development site-review standards that aim to simplify the process for builders and those responsible for evaluating proposals. The second-reading approval by Boulder City Council of the site-review updates effectively ends Boulder’s years-long “community benefit” effort, intended to provide…
LOVELAND — McWhinney Real Estate Services Inc. will give the Loveland City Council its first official look Tuesday at what is now called Centerra South, a 148-acre development south of U.S. 34 across from the existing Marketplace at Centerra where a brick farmhouse and traditional barn now stand. The tease: The development company will show…
LOVELAND — Trammell Crow Co. the Dallas-based company that is building the new Amazon warehouse in northeast Loveland, expects to turn over the facility to Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) in August this year. The project, now described as a 3.5 million-square-foot facility built in four stories, began in March last year. While Seattle-based Amazon has…
LONGMONT — Macy Development Co. plans to build a flex-industrial building next to a busy retail center in Longmont. Plans, which were approved this week by Longmont City Council, call for a 32,700-square-foot structure on nearly four acres on Dry Creek Drive adjacent to the Home Depot and Target stores that operate off of Hover…
BOULDER — A developer plans to knock down an aging Boulder apartment complex and rebuild a much denser multi-family community. The Glenwood Village Apartments at 2747 Glenwood Court, which sold in 2021 for nearly $17 million, has 48 units spread across about three acres. The existing community, according to a memo provided to Boulder city…