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…
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…
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…
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…
WINDSOR — A 10-building, 353-unit apartment complex is rising just east of the Ranch Events Center in Windsor. Indianapolis-based developer Buckingham Cos. broke ground last March for the complex it’s calling Plat 10 at Brands East, two months after winning final approval from Windsor town staff. Construction continues on the 12-acre site on the northeast…
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…
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 — 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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
