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…
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…
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…
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”…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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 — 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…
LOVELAND – A family-owned brewpub has opened in one of a row of century-old downtown Loveland buildings that were redeveloped using tax-increment financing. Sky Bear Brewery & Pub, owned by Amanda Kissel and her parents, Mark and Linda Kissel, had a soft opening July 28 and has been attracting a steady stream of customers to…
ERIE — The Erie Town Center project is continuing to take shape after the town issued a request for proposals for the parcel that is intended to be the commercial and civic hub of the 145-acre development. “We’ve had these properties available right in the middle of town, and it gave us the ability to…
BROOMFIELD — A plan from Dallas developer Lincoln Property Co. to build a life-sciences-centric business campus in Interlocken appears to be moving smoothly toward groundbreaking, with a nod of approval this week from Broomfield’s Land Use Review Committee. The project, known as CoRE – Colorado Research Exchange, will be built at 235 Interlocken Blvd. and…
FORT COLLINS — Mulberry Connection, billed by its developers as “the first speculative Class A industrial project built in Fort Collins since the 1990s, has signed a pair of pre-leases in advance of its August opening. The two-building, 164,200-square-foot industrial project built on approximately 13 acres at 4036 and 3874 Redman Drive, has frontage along…
GREELEY — An Indianapolis-based developer is planning to redevelop the former Gallery Furniture building at 1028 8th Ave. into a seven-story, 250-unit apartment tower, according to pre-application documents submitted to the city. The developer, Milhaus, has built mixed-use projects throughout the Midwest. This is their first project in Colorado. The development underwent a pre-application meeting…
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…
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…
LAFAYETTE — In order to modernize and expand its municipal water-reclamation facility to bring it into compliance with new state standards, Lafayette is expanding the water operation at the Baseline Road and East County Line Road. The treatment facility was built in the late 1980s and early 1990s and a portion of the property was…