BROOMFIELD — McWhinney Real Estate Services Inc., the Loveland-based master developer of the Baseline mega-development on 1,100 acres in Broomfield south of Baseline Road, west of Interstate 25 and east of Sheridan Parkway, has broken ground on two new flex-industrial buildings on the site, the company’s third and fourth at Baseline to date. The buildings,…
BOULDER — What distinguishes a life-sciences facility from a typical flexible-use office building? And how does Boulder continue fostering its rapidly expanding biotechnology ecosystem without filling every nook and cranny with generic corporate campuses, exacerbating the city’s jobs-housing imbalance? These questions were top of mind this week when Boulder’s Planning Board held a concept review…
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…
FORT COLLINS — As the industrial commercial real estate market in Northern Colorado continues to remain hot, yet another large development has been proposed: a 1.05-million-square-foot industrial park at the southeast corner of Interstate 25 and East Vine Drive. The project, dubbed 25Vine, would be built on 68 acres of vacant land within the Kirschner…
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…
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…
BROOMFIELD — A plan from Dallas developer Lincoln Property Co. to build a life-sciences-centric business campus in Interlocken appears to be moving smoothly toward groundbreaking, with a nod of approval this week from Broomfield’s Land Use Review Committee. The project, known as CoRE – Colorado Research Exchange, will be built at 235 Interlocken Blvd. and…
GREELEY — A proposal to rezone part of the former Hewlett-Packard Co. property in west Greeley from industrial to high-density residential failed in a tie vote during the Greeley City Council meeting Tuesday amid intense neighborhood opposition. The proposal would have rezoned the last remaining unused industrial portion of the former HP property near the…
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…
FORT COLLINS — Mulberry Connection, billed by its developers as “the first speculative Class A industrial project built in Fort Collins since the 1990s, has signed a pair of pre-leases in advance of its August opening. The two-building, 164,200-square-foot industrial project built on approximately 13 acres at 4036 and 3874 Redman Drive, has frontage along…
GREELEY — An Indianapolis-based developer is planning to redevelop the former Gallery Furniture building at 1028 8th Ave. into a seven-story, 250-unit apartment tower, according to pre-application documents submitted to the city. The developer, Milhaus, has built mixed-use projects throughout the Midwest. This is their first project in Colorado. The development underwent a pre-application meeting…
BROOMFIELD — McWhinney Real Estate Services Inc. is preparing to add nearly 700 housing units to its master-planned Baseline community. The houses would make up a 60-acre neighborhood called Baseline Parkside East. It would be located directly southeast of Baseline’s extensive park. Plans call for 485 single-family homes, with 290 attached row homes and 195…
LOUISVILLE — The Denver-based developer already approved to build multi-family housing in the Downtown East Louisville neighborhood, also known as Delo, is attempting to amend its plans and increase the number of rental units. LCP Delo LLC, a holding company operated by developer Littleton Capital Partners, is set to go before the Louisville Planning Commission…
BROOMFIELD — As McWhinney Real Estate Services Inc. prepares to build Center Street — a district that the company and Broomfield planners consider to be the “social and economic heart” of the Baseline mega-development — the developer is facing scrutiny from city leaders who appear a bit wary of a potential reduction of commercial space…
LONGMONT — As Jennifer Peterson spent decades living and raising her family in Longmont, she would often drive through the intersection of Main Street and 9th Street and notice the ugly strip mall buildings sitting on the northeast corner. One car ride, she commented to her family that she wished someone would knock them down…
JOHNSTOWN — Texas convenience store chain Buc-ee’s Ltd. has dug out its first foothold in Colorado with the groundbreaking of its upcoming Johnstown location. The new store, set to open in 2024, will join another upcoming location in Tennessee as the world’s largest convenience stores. Buc-ee’s, which will sit at the southwest corner of Interstate…
LOVELAND — The Amazon fulfillment center under construction in Loveland could end up being the second largest in the Amazon network at 3.87 million square feet. Or it could fall victim to an overexpansion on the part of Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) Groundwork is well underway in Loveland on the facility, which was confirmed through…
