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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…

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…

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Boulder leaders support simplified site-review process

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…

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Flex-industrial building planned for Longmont parcel next to Home Depot

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…

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Large industrial building planned on Greeley’s western edge

GREELEY — A proposal for a 306,180-square-foot warehouse and distribution center on what its developer calls “the last sizable chunk of land” on the east end of the High Point Business Park is wending its way through Greeley’s approval process. “We’re in the early design phases now,” said James Isom, a founder and partner at…

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Apartment complex set to rise near Greeley’s Centerplace

GREELEY — Thompson Thrift, a developer, builder and property manager based in Terre Haute, Indiana, plans to begin construction this month on a 336-unit apartment complex near the Centerplace retail center in Greeley. Premier at West Park, at 4118 Centerplace Drive, is expected to be completed by late 2024. “The multifamily market in Greeley has…

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Next Baseline residential phase wins blessing from Broomfield planning officials

BROOMFIELD — McWhinney Real Estate Services Inc.’s Baseline mega-development in Broomfield continues to take shape, as the city’s Land Use Review Commission unanimously recommended approval this month of a development plan for the project’s latest residential component.  Phases 3 and 4 of Baseline’s Parkside West neighborhood is planned to include 232 residential lots with a…

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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…

Boulder Holiday Inn Express developer: COVID, supply chain forced delay
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Boulder Holiday Inn Express developer: COVID, supply chain forced delay

BOULDER — A South Dakota developer with plans to build a Holiday Inn Express hotel in Boulder — already a half-decade in the making — has been granted a three-year extension to get its project off the ground.  The Boulder Planning Commission last month voted unanimously to allow Lamont Cos.’ approved 2018 site review to…

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With biotech tenants in mind, CTC developer pivots toward flex space

LOUISVILLE — In what appears to be an attempt to cash in on the seemingly unquenchable appetite for biotechnology and life-sciences-centric flex space in the Boulder Valley, a developer with an already approved plan to build an office project in Louisville’s Colorado Technology Center office park is shifting gears.  Architect Andy Johnson and property owner…

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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,…

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Sterling Bay redeveloping Lafayette Corporate Campus space for life-sciences tenants

LAFAYETTE — Chicago real estate developer and investor Sterling Bay Cos. LLC is transforming a Lafayette Corporate Campus office building formerly leased to Ball Corp. (NYSE: BLL) into a speculative flex space geared toward biotechnology tenants.  The company, which bought the Campus Drive property as part of a $74.5 million portfolio acquisition deal in 2021…

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Illinois developer planning mixed-use project in Boulder County adjacent to Nine Mile

LAFAYETTE — Chicagoland builder Kensington Development Partners intends to transform a roughly 40-acre vacant lot in Boulder County due west of Erie’s Nine Mile shopping center into a new mixed-use district that could eventually be home to residences, a variety of businesses and perhaps even lodging.  Representatives with the developer, its consultants and Lafeyette’s planning…

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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…