BERTHOUD — The town of Berthoud is seeking redevelopment concepts to convert its former town hall site at 328 Massachusetts Ave. into a mixed-use development that could become a hub for its downtown. “The Town believes that the property offers a unique opportunity to create an innovative gathering location,” Walt Elish, business development manager for…
GREELEY — When the High Plains Library District’s new flagship downtown branch opens, library administrators are hoping to make it more than just a library. “We’re trying to create a joint library and innovation center,” said Matthew Hortt, executive director of the High Plains Library District. “We’ve dabbled in changing the way libraries are viewed,…
GREELEY — Weld County is now the owner of a 102-acre parcel on O Street, a site that was the final portion of the Grainery site available for sale. The Grainery was planned in the early 2010s as mixed-use development on nearly 700 acres at the former Monfort Inc. feedlots and headquarters west of U.S….
BROOMFIELD — McWhinney’s is set to build the third and fourth out of five total industrial buildings in the first phase of its North Park industrial development, according to planning documents submitted to the city. The buildings will be located along 160th Avenue, just east of Sheridan Boulevard, east of the existing first two buildings…
JOHNSTOWN — United Properties Development LLC has broken ground its latest commercial project in Johnstown’s 2534 development: a three-building, 280,000-plus-square-foot industrial site called Trade@2534. The developer bought the 16.76 acre parcel on Ronald Reagan Boulevard where the project will be built last month for $3.65 million. Trade@2534 will include three Class A industrial buildings: Building…
LOVELAND — Cleveland Station, the redevelopment and revitalization of a half block of Cleveland Avenue in downtown Loveland, is nearing completion and should be ready by mid-July, said Greg Fair, principal at The Colorado Group and the developer for the project. Cleveland Station encompasses the addresses 428-450 Cleveland Ave. The space once held the Loveland…
FIRESTONE — After a strong 2020, development activity in Firestone has continued apace throughout the first quarter of 2021: Ground has broken on the town’s King Soopers expansion, the new town hall will be ready for occupancy by the fall, and new commercial tenants and developments are building up, highlighted by what will be the…
GREELEY — In 2017, Heather Bean, the founder and owner of Syntax Distillery, was looking for a new building. Syntax had leased space in an industrial park on Third Street since Bean and her business partner Jeff Copeland started the business in 2010. Seven years in, they wanted to purchase a building in a better…
BROOMFIELD — Tim Wiens and his full-service real estate firm, Wiens Real Estate Ventures LLC, purchased the land that would become Arista in six parcels in the early 2000s, when the more than 200 acres for the property were nearly vacant. The widened and lengthened 120th Avenue hadn’t been extended to cross U.S. Highway 36….
The multifamily residential real estate market in Northern Colorado and the Boulder Valley came to a sudden halt, along with the rest of the world, in March 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic swept through the United States and government lockdowns were imposed. One year later, however, it’s clear that the freeze was temporary. The multifamily…
BOULDER — The controversial proposed residential development near Celestial Seasonings should be out of site review with the Boulder Planning Board by the second week of March, Lead Planner Elaine McLaughlin said. After site review, developers for the 230-unit project in Gunbarrel would have the opportunity to respond to planning staff comments before a public…
LOVELAND — When Fort Collins and Longmont began to revitalize their downtowns in the 1980s, downtown Loveland still struggled with vacant storefronts, decaying facades and little of the development activity that characterized the reinvigoration of Loveland’s Front Range neighbors. Now, it’s beginning to evolve. Massive development projects such as The Foundry have brought large amounts…
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic caused changes in consumer behavior to accelerate, those shifts were already well underway; ecommerce was on the rise, and brick-and-mortar retail was contending with how to compete. In cases where brick-and-mortar couldn’t compete, investors, developers and city planners have had to grapple with the challenge of what to do with…
JOHNSTOWN — Johnstown Plaza, the 50-acre commercial development near the southeast quadrant of the interchange of Interstate 25 and U.S. Highway 34, could be fully built out by the end of this year, said Allen D. Schlup, the Kansas-City-based owner of the development. Schlup said the last undeveloped one-acre parcel in Johnstown Plaza is currently…
FORT COLLINS — Midtown Fort Collins — the stretch of College Avenue between Prospect Road and Harmony Road — has come a long way since an Urban Renewal Authority study declared it legally blighted nearly 10 years ago. During that time, Midtown has seen significant development activity, from the 600-plus-unit student-housing complex The Summit to…
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic entering its ninth month — and Colorado continuing to set daily records for new cases — the industrial real estate market in Northern Colorado and the Boulder Valley continues to hold strong after an early slowdown. Real estate professionals in the northern and Boulder markets point to the continued low cap…
LONGMONT — Left Hand Brewing Co.’s proposed one-acre outdoor beer garden expansion is moving forward with approval from the Longmont Planning and Zoning Commission, and brewery co-founder and president Eric Wallace said the tentative plan is to have the space ready by next summer. “Now is finally the time,” Wallace said. The conditional site use…