Lafayette Marketplace
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Lafayette Marketplace developer envisions 650 apartments, 150K SF of commercial space

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…

Aperture
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RecycledPhoto operators look to build CTC flex building

LOUISVILLE — RecycledPhoto LLC, a Louisville business that buys, sells and repairs cameras and photography equipment, needs more space, and its owners are planning to build a flex-industrial building adjacent to the company’s Colorado Technology Center operations to house an expansion with space to lease to other tenants.  “We’ve outgrown our space pretty dramatically,” Vahe…

Westside Crossing
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Residential, retail plans take shape at Westside Crossing

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…

Sugar Mill rendering
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Apartment community planned in shadow of Longmont’s long-shuttered sugar factory

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,…

Downtown church to be redeveloped into mixed-use project
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Downtown church to be redeveloped into mixed-use project

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…

Next phase of Flatiron Marketplace redevelopment under way
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Next phase of Flatiron Marketplace redevelopment under way

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…

2504 Spruce
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Spruce Street developer adds on-site affordable units to plan

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…

Delantero set to bring up to 5,000 housing units to west Greeley
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Delantero set to bring up to 5,000 housing units to west Greeley

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…

Raising Cane’s plans for Boulder restaurant fall amid concerns over hours, drive-through
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Raising Cane’s plans for Boulder restaurant fall amid concerns over hours, drive-through

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…

Developer seeks changes to Delo West plan
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Developer seeks changes to Delo West plan

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…

McWhinney faces tough questions about ‘social and economic heart’ of Baseline
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McWhinney faces tough questions about ‘social and economic heart’ of Baseline

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…

Casa Lou Cardenas brings new mixed-use space to downtown Longmont
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Casa Lou Cardenas brings new mixed-use space to downtown Longmont

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…