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Limelight hotel on CU Boulder campus half-built, mid-2025 opening eyed

BOULDER —  Limelight Hotel Boulder is more than halfway built, and its operators expect that the 252-room inn and conference center on the University of Colorado Boulder campus will be open by late summer or early fall 2025.  The hotel is expected to cost $130 million to build. Aspen Skiing Co.’s Aspen Hospitality division (formerly…

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Gunbarrel Technology Center developer plans 2025 groundbreaking

BOULDER — A long-gestating plan to deliver new flex-industrial square footage to Boulder’s Gunbarrel neighborhood is expected to come to fruition next year.  A development team led by WK Real Estate anticipates breaking ground in 2025 on the Gunbarrel Technology Center, a 66,141-square-foot project on Homestead Way near the Celestial Seasonings headquarters. “We bought the…

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Denver’s Bigsby’s Folly Winery & Restaurant plans Superior expansion

SUPERIOR — First it was COVID-19 in 2020. Then, in 2021, it was the Marshall Fire. Some business operators would have abandoned expansion plans, but not Marla Yetka and Chad Yetka, the couple who co-founded Bigsby’s Folly Winery & Restaurant in Denver’s River North neighborhood in 2017. “About a year or two after we opened,…

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Ground broken for 300-unit apartment complex in Firestone

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…

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Vast residential, commercial project lands with Boulder planners

BOULDER — A sweeping redevelopment proposal for one of Boulder’s most-traveled corners would put more than 600 apartments on a site now occupied by some of the city’s most iconic bars and other businesses. Williams Village II planners seek to build 726,000 square feet of space in six buildings, four and five stories tall, designed…

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St. John hires local construction chief as Simms Tech Park development proceeds

BROOMFIELD — Maryland-based developer St. John Properties Inc., which is building the Simms Technology Park office, research and retail campus in Broomfield, has hired Allen Rutherford to serve as director of construction in the firm’s Colorado regional office.  Rutherford was formerly a senior project manager at CFC Construction Inc. in Lakewood.  One of his duties…

Boulder Commons
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Boulder Commons’ final phase to begin construction

BOULDER — The final phase of the Boulder Commons development near 30th and Pearl streets in Boulder will be launched with a groundbreaking set for July 19. Grounded Capital and Boulder-based Morgan Creek Ventures are developing the transit-oriented mixed-use community that, when completed, will consist of 11 buildings including office, retail and multifamily residential units….

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South Dakota developer gets nod for new Westminster townhomes

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…

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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…

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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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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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,…

Breaking Ground sessions to highlight Northern Colorado Real Estate Summit

Breaking Ground sessions to highlight Northern Colorado Real Estate Summit

FORT COLLINS — Planning and economic-development officials from 10 Northern Colorado communities will highlight key development activity within their cities at the sixth annual Northern Colorado Real Estate Summit, Wednesday, April 5. Real estate professionals are eligible to earn eight continuing-education credits at the event, which will take place at the Hilton Fort Collins. The…

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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…

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Denver developer plans 200,000-square-foot R&D project in Boulder

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…