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Debt claims against Future Legends Sports Complex now total more than $100 million from two banks and three contractors, while the largest lender has joined efforts seeking sanctions against managing member Jeff Katofsky.
AdventHealth’s five hospitals in the Denver metropolitan area, including Avista in Louisville, and Intermountain Health, which has three hospitals in the Denver area region including Good Samaritan in Lafayette and Platte Valley in Brighton, will form a joint venture.
Existing funding will pay for three daily Front Range Passenger Rail round trips between Fort Collins and Denver by 2029, the rail district’s general manager said Monday, and an extension of the line’s length and frequency will depend on voter approval of a third-of-a-cent tax increase in November
Greeley Monday formally asked Weld County to become a financial partner in the proposed Catalyst entertainment district, seeking the county’s backing for a key piece of the project’s financing in exchange for what could generate an estimated $670 million in county revenue over the next 37 years.
The ex-Woodward site's owner, Martin Lind, has denied any involvement with the company, and said he issued a cease-and-desist order to have Spark AI Foundry remove mention of his property from its website.
Boulder City Council is now expected to review the deal — a tentative agreement is in place for Boulder to sell a 59-space lot at 2121 Broadway for $5.8 million to hotel developer and operator Midnight Auteur — next month.
A beloved bronze statue in Greeley’s Glenmere Park stands proudly again, thanks to a Loveland-based restoration specialist and art historian.
Bass Pro Shops will open its Loveland store July 22, the company announced late Thursday — 19 months after officials broke ground for the 130,000-square-foot outdoor retailer.
About five months after financial struggles forced the YMCA of Northern Colorado to end aquatics, fitness and recreation services at its Longmont location, the City of Longmont is planning to buy the 950 Lashley St. facility and turn it into a public recreation center.
Broadcom Inc. will launch a $1.5 billion capital investment to expand and modernize its manufacturing facilities in Fort Collins, thanks to a new multiyear contract with Apple Inc. to design and produce silicon components and wireless-connectivity technologies for a wide range of Apple products.
BizWest has selected its inaugural Startups to Watch class, honoring 20 companies that demonstrate exceptional potential for innovation, growth and economic impact.
Design Mechanical Services is the latest company making the move out of the Boulder Valley to Thornton. The company will move its headquarters and 400 employees to the Creekside Innovation Center.
Louisville's massive new King Soopers has opened in a building formerly occupied by Lowe's at 1171 W. Dillon Road. Denver-based developer Koelbel and Co. formerly planned to transform the building into a life-sciences hub but pivoted when that market faltered.
United Way of Weld County has cut seven positions in the face of reductions in government funding, ongoing economic uncertainty, changing philanthropic trends and rising operational costs.
Founded in 2016 in Laramie by University of Wyoming students, On The Hook began with the mission of serving high-quality, line-caught fish and chips in communities with limited access to fresh seafood.
The new satellite store at 4593 Broadway is designed as a smaller, highly shoppable version of Nude Foods’ full grocery stores in Boulder and Denver.
The 128,000-square-foot Target store just west of Home Depot in the City Centre development in Firestone is expected to open next month.
The mystery company is described as an LA-founded "defense company that specializes in defensive interceptor systems to counter medium-to-large unmanned aerial threats."
Onerous regulations and high land costs are limiting the availability of housing attainable for “missing middle” area residents, municipal leaders and developers said Thursday at BizWest’s Boulder Valley Middle-Income Housing Summit at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Enliven Therapeutics, a rising star among Boulder's publicly traded life-sciences companies, has moved its headquarters to the Bay Area. The move appears driven by Rick Fair, who took over as CEO in December. Fair's LinkedIn profile lists his location as Burlingame, Calif.,, Enliven's new HQ city.
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser has filed an administrative lawsuit against Greeley Demands Better and its associated nonprofit political group We Are Greeley, opponents of the proposed Catalyst entertainment district and its surrounding Cascadia mixed-use development.
That sound you hear in Urban-gro Inc.'s controlled-environment systems just might be ... crickets. In an unlikely strategic shift, Lafayette-based Urban-gro has abandoned its indoor growing systems (with a heavy emphasis on cannabis growers) in favor of international cricket. Read more below.
The Weld County Attorney says a county charter provision requiring voter approval for expenditures above $177M doesn't apply to the county's planned $334M justice center, because adequate court facilities are mandated by the state.
Five years after a developer bought Fort Collins’ Foothills Mall out of foreclosure and three years after it announced an ambitious plan to turn the indoor mall into open-air retail. the company now called Realberry is still “evaluating strategies to reposition the property for long-term success.”
Leaders of Aclarion Inc. on Monday rejected an unsolicited takeover bid from an investor who has lambasted the Broomfield-based healthcare technology firm’s board over its failure to maintain shareholder value.
Lowe's paid a bit more than $4 million in late April for the roughly 9.6-acre parcel at 5701 Silverstone Drive.
Biota's move in February from lab space at the BioFrontiers Institute on the University of Colorado Boulder campus to permanent headquarters in Longmont “is a result of growing demand for the company’s technology and imminent PFAS requirements facing the industry,” CEO Rose Nash told BizWest.
Through its IPO Thursday, Quantinuum has sold 28 million shares of common stock at $60 a share — a valuation of more than $14 billion — and raised $1.68 billion in the process.