Projects around the Front Range on EasyLiving Front Range Colorado

ThunderBowl, Pueblo
The goal was to reinstate football, wrestling and women’s track and field at Colorado State University, Pueblo. There was an additional need to marry those programs to a campus located football stadium and field house. Dan DeRose, Mike Roumph and Louie Carleo donated the land for the stadium, and their Friends of Football nonprofit group raised over $10 million dollars. The fast track project will culminate on September 6, 2008 when the university’s football team plays its NCAA Division II inaugural game at the Neta and Eddie DeRose ThunderBowl Stadium.

Visual Arts Complex, Boulder
The University of Colorado at Boulder is working on a $63.5 million, 170,000-square-foot Visual Arts Complex, which is expected to be completed during the 2009-2010 academic year. The complex will house both the art and art history department and the CU Art Museum. Among other upgrades, it will feature climate-controlled exhibition galleries and storage spaces designed to protect and preserve the Colorado Collection, the museum’s extensive array of artwork from Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe. Like other new campus buildings, the Visual Arts Complex will feature the latest green design, technology and construction materials.

Gateway Station, Golden
Gateway Station, Golden’s newest and boldest redevelopment project, is nearing completion. Gateway Station is a $25 million project that has replaced the old Hesteds building with new commercial space below four stories of luxury residential condos. The project was supported by the Golden Urban Renewal Authority, which built a 268-space, free, public parking garage directly behind the condo building. The new building features over 20,000 square feet of commercial space, underground parking for the residences, and 35 residential condos. About half the commercial space is still available and about 8 residential condos are still up for the taking.

The Streets at SouthGlenn, Centennial
Alberta Development Partners, LLC is currently working on The Streets at SouthGlenn in Centennial. The regional, urban lifestyle destination will build on its neighborhood character to create a community with shopping, dining, living and working experiences. The Commons, a comfortable outdoor park along with a gourmet natural foods market, sidewalk cafés, bookstore and upscale retailers are just a few of the many features to watch for. The first four retailers will open this fall, and the remainder of the center will open in the spring of 2009.

Project Green, Castle Rock
Town Council recently unanimously approved a proposal to brand the Town’s environmental efforts under the moniker, “Project Green.” Residents can expect to begin seeing the Project Green logo often — its hybrid fleet, water conservation projects, promotional materials and anywhere the Town has made an environmental difference. Various Town departments have enacted green practices on their own, such as the use of xeriscaping and synthetic turf in Town parks, encouraging the use of the free CATCO bus around Town and placing recycle bins at the desks of most Town employees.

Recycled asphalt program, Lakewood
The City of Lakewood is one of Colorado’s leaders when it comes to the use of recycled asphalt in new asphalt pavements. It now allows up to 30 percent of new asphalt pavement mixtures to be comprised of recycled asphalt (basically, old asphalt pavement that has been crushed and mixed with new oil and aggregate to produce paving material). This saves on gravel mining, oil consumption, and landfill space — as well as money! The new asphalt paving mix containing the recycled materials has to meet the same engineering properties as mix containing only virgin materials, and is tested to ensure that it does.

FortZED, Fort Collins
“FortZED” (Zero Energy District) project, which is backed by the Clean Energy Cluster and the city of Fort Collins, aims to create a 45-megawatt area around downtown Fort Collins and the CSU campus that would be a net-zero energy user. (Net-zero energy is achieved when all energy consumed is generated locally from renewable resources.) In April, the City announced that it landed a $6.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to jump-start the project. The implementation of FortZED is expected to occur over the next three years or so. — WBT

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