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In Boulder, petitions would ask voters whether to close muni-airport and use land to build homes
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In Boulder, petitions would ask voters whether to close muni-airport and use land to build homes

By Lucas High | BizWest Boulder is a great place to live — just ask U.S. News & World Report. But Boulder can be a difficult place to live. And for many, this beautiful city where the median sales price for a home has exceeded $1 million for nearly this entire decade, is an impossible place to live.  What if Boulder leaders decided to roll the dice on an uncertain gambit to secure for Boulder’s Regular Joes and Janes the chance to buy a quality home at a fraction of that price? What if that roll of the dice meant closing the Boulder Municipal Airport? Fighting the federal government? Losing millions of dollars in funding, shrinking sales-tax deposits into city coffers and shedding local jobs? READ THE FULL STORY AT BIZWEST
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Loveland voters to be asked whether to change charter on rules to fire city manager, attorney
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Loveland voters to be asked whether to change charter on rules to fire city manager, attorney

By BizWest Staff Voters in Loveland will get to decide in November whether it should take five or six votes on the nine-member City Council to fire the city manager or city attorney. According to the Loveland Reporter-Herald, the council voted 5-4 on Tuesday to direct the city attorney’s office to draft the ballot language. Council member Troy Krenning, who introduced the motion, said such a change from a five-vote to a six-vote threshold could have prevented the large severance payments the city had to make to former City Manager Steve Adams and former City Attorney Moses Garcia, since just five council members, not a “super-majority” of six, wanted to see them fired. The four dissenting members contended that Garcia’s and Adams’ departure proves the five-vote requirement wo...
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450-student Catholic high school to be constructed on 44.1-acre parcel in Johnstown
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450-student Catholic high school to be constructed on 44.1-acre parcel in Johnstown

By BizWest Staff  The Archdiocese of Denver has purchased a 44.1-acre parcel of land in Johnstown and plans to construct a 450-student Catholic high school along with a chapel, athletic field and gymnasium. Scottsdale, Arizona-based real-estate investor, developer and manager Caliber Cos. (Nasdaq: CWD) announced the $7.7 million sale Tuesday. The property at U.S. Highway 34 and Colorado Boulevard was part of an approximately 190-acre parcel purchased in June 2021 by a Caliber-sponsored single-asset syndication, Encore FundCo LLC, for $7.67 million. Since that time, pre-development work has been conducted on the land. Construction on the remaining portion of the larger parcel is expected to begin by the middle of this year and include multifamily, retail and industrial develop...
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Boulder County launches $400K pilot program to repair, rehab mobile homes
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Boulder County launches $400K pilot program to repair, rehab mobile homes

By Dallas Heltzell | BizWest Staff Boulder County is using $400,000 in federal funds to launch a pilot program to repair and rehabilitate mobile homes at the Columbine Mobile Home Park and Orchard Grove Mobile Home Park in Boulder. “The intent of the pilot program is to support individual households and better understand the repair needs of local mobile home communities, which have been historically underserved,” according to a county news release.  Funding for the pilot project comes from Boulder County’s American Rescue Plan Act allocation. READ THE FULL STORY AT BIZWEST
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Longmont Starbucks becomes 11th location in Colorado to unionize
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Longmont Starbucks becomes 11th location in Colorado to unionize

By BizWest LONGMONT — Longmont Starbucks workers at the 17th and Hover store have become the latest coffee shop workforce to join a union. The workers petitioned to join the Starbucks Workers United union in February and followed through with a vote this week. The workers voted 15-4 to join more than 410 stores and 10,000 Starbucks workers nationwide who have decided to unionize. It’s the first Starbucks in Longmont and the 11th Colorado location to join.​ “Starbucks workers deserve consistency and reliability,” Emily Winkler, a barista with more than a year at the 17th & Hoover location, said in a written statement. “My hope in unionizing is creating an environment where we have the needed resources to better represent and run our store.” READ THE FULL STORY AT B...
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Aims will build student health center to open in August 2026
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Aims will build student health center to open in August 2026

By BizWest staff Aims Community College will open a new Student Health and Wellness Center in August 2026. The Aims Board of Trustees approved funding at the March 2024 meeting. The total cost to establish the center is $18.4 million.  “By investing in student health care access, we are investing in student success. Ensuring Aims provides a safe and supportive environment where students can thrive ties directly to our mission as a college,” Heidi Windell, treasurer of the Aims Board of Trustees, said in a written statement. READ THE FULL STORY AT BIZWEST
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Denver Zoo to open 570-acre conservation preserve in Weld County
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Denver Zoo to open 570-acre conservation preserve in Weld County

By Dallas Heltzell | BizWest WELD COUNTY — The Denver Zoo will expand its operations onto the Lembke Family Preserve, a donated 570-acre tract east of Greeley in Weld County, the zoo announced Thursday. Conversations between the family and the zoo began about 18 months ago, said Bob Lembke, president of United Water and Sanitation District and a Weld County ranch owner. “I’ve always been a big fan of the zoo and came to the conclusion that this made sense,” Lembke told BizWest. “I signed the documents for the donation last December.” The gift was made, he said, because “Denver Zoo has been part of our family tradition since the late 1950s. Both Carol and I loved visiting the old zoo of our childhood, and we took our kids there many times. It’s always a special family outing. Wi...
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