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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…

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Broomfield apartment developer overcomes fiscal concerns with affordable housing

BROOMFIELD — Despite an increasing reticence by Broomfield officials to give their blessing to resident projects in parts of the city designated for commercial development, the city’s Land Use Review Committee voted unanimously this week to recommend approval of a proposal to build nearly 300 apartments off of West 169th Avenue. The project, known as…

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Utah developer fails to win over Broomfield officials on multifamily proposal

BROOMFIELD — Unfortunately for Salt Lake City-based Wasatch Residential Group, the developer’s second attempt to win support for an apartment project in Broomfield was received much like its first in late 2021: unenthusiastically. During a study session this week, a concept review was presented for Avenue 120, a project on about 15 acres near the…

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Broomfield R&D-centric flex campus wins enthusiastic approval

BROOMFIELD — The Texas-based development group behind the Colorado Research Exchange, a planned research-and-development-forward office-laboratory flex campus in Broomfield’s Interlocken business park, are moving forward with the project with the solid backing of city officials. The Broomfield City Council unanimously signed off plans Tuesday evening for the Colorado Research Exchange, also known as CoRE and…

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Wildfire Homes to help meet Estes’ burning need for workforce housing

ESTES PARK — Given that the monstrous East Troublesome Fire two years ago this month forced the evacuation of the mountain village of Estes Park and could have consumed the town itself but for the courageous efforts of firefighters, it’s understandable that someone might have a few qualms about moving into a subdivision called “Wildfire”…

Large storage facility planned in Lafayette
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Large storage facility planned in Lafayette

LAFAYETTE — A Denver-based developer of a variety of styles of commercial buildings is planning a large-scale self-storage facility in Lafayette. DCB Construction Co. Inc. has submitted special-use review applications for a three-story,  91,644-square-foot operation at 710 U.S. Highway 287. The self-storage facility would occupy the eastern half of a 2.43-acre lot currently owned by…

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Two Learning Experience centers completed in Loveland

LOVELAND — Windsor-based general contractor Schuman Cos. completed construction this week on a pair of early-childhood centers in Loveland. Deerfield Beach, Florida-based The Learning Experience, which opened centers in Fort Collins and Timnath last fall and also has locations in Lafayette, Brighton and Westminster, will open the two similar 10,000-square-foot Loveland facilities — at 1570…

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Approval in hand, Berthoud Life Center just needs donations

BERTHOUD – It has the land, it has the design and construction contracts, and it has town planners’ approval. Now it just needs donations. Berthoud Life Center, a venture of Loveland-based nonprofit House of Neighborly Service that has been operating out the children’s building at Grace Place Church, wants to build its own 20,000-square-foot building…

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McWhinney breaks ground on third, fourth Baseline industrial buildings

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,…

Pearl East redevelopment grilled over design, height
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Pearl East redevelopment grilled over design, height

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 leaders push McWhinney on Baseline affordable housing plans
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Broomfield leaders push McWhinney on Baseline affordable housing plans

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…