Subdivision set to bloom in east Fort Collins 
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Subdivision set to bloom in east Fort Collins 

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…

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Broomfield leaders give enthusiastic OK to first Flatiron Crossing phase

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…

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Boulder apartment plan pits need for CU housing against neighborhood continuity

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…

Tribe, Colmena plan rental building at Cherry and Mason in Fort Collins
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Tribe, Colmena plan rental building at Cherry and Mason in Fort Collins

FORT COLLINS — Tribe Development Co. LLC and the Colmena Group have purchased a lot at the corner of Cherry Street and Mason Street in Fort Collins, where they plan to develop rental housing. The property, 209 Cherry St.,  had been owned by Cherry & Mason Investments, a company affiliated with Affinity Real Estate Partners…

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Excited Boulder officials to review BMoCA mixed-use proposal in NoBo

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…

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Broomfield apartment project overcomes city leaders’ concerns over missing commercial component

BROOMFIELD — Blackburn Communities LLC,  a Mississippi-based real estate developer and investment group, won approval this week to move forward with plans to build a new apartment complex on Wadsworth Boulevard in Broomfield despite lingering concerns from city leaders that the project could be a drain on government coffers.  Plans for the project, referred to…

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Longmont senior-living community up for revitalization

LONGMONT —  Village Place Apartments, a senior-living apartment community at 600 Coffman St., will be renovated in a project expected to include “exterior building, interior commons and in-unit rehabilitation; landscaping improvements and site work,” according to Lakewood-based Pinkard Construction Co., the company contracted to perform the work.  The 72-unit, 69,000-square-foot community is operated by the…

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Greeley council OKs downtown apartment-building plan

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,…

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Lafayette’s Willoughby Corner affordable-housing community could break ground in summer

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
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Downtown Longmont building set to open in December

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…

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Multifamily development being built in west Greeley

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…

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Split Broomfield City Council approves latest Baseline resident phases

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…

Funding allocated for two Longmont affordable-housing projects
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Funding allocated for two Longmont affordable-housing projects

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…

Prospect New Town to get 180 homes, 16K square feet of commercial space
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Prospect New Town to get 180 homes, 16K square feet of commercial space

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.,…

Hartford plans 321 residences in Timnath’s Trailside
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Hartford plans 321 residences in Timnath’s Trailside

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…

Boulder officials supportive of Jay Road residential project despite neighbors’ concerns
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Boulder officials supportive of Jay Road residential project despite neighbors’ concerns

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,…

Developer gets OK for final phase of Louisville’s North End
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Developer gets OK for final phase of Louisville’s North End

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…