CU Health Sciences Center Redevelopment/Cherry Creek Clubhouse Completion/Vail Village Renaissance/Gates Customer Solutions Center

The selection of a developer for CU's Ninth and Colorado Campus allows the university to begin negotiations for a phased handover of the site, moving out of its buildings there as new ones at the Fitzsimons medical campus are completed.

Health Sciences Center Selects Developer for Ninth Avenue Campus

The University of Colorado Board of Regents has given the CU Health Sciences Center the approval to begin negotiations with Shea Properties as the preferred developer for CU's campus at Ninth Avenue and Colorado Boulevard in Denver.

CU Health Sciences Center will complete its relocation to Fitzsimons in 2008, and the redevelopment of the Ninth Avenue campus will begin after the relocation is complete.

Cherry Creek Golf Clubhouse Complete

Centerre Construction Inc. of Englewood has completed Cherry Creek Country Club's new golf clubhouse in Denver.

The elegant 30,000-sq-ft golf clubhouse - designed by Zmistowski Design Group of Boulder - includes five dining areas, a full-service kitchen, pro shop, high-ceilinged men's and women's locker rooms, bag storage facility, two-story fireplace, two-story clock and bell tower, two bars, golf cart storage and high-end finishes. The course was designed by Nicklaus Design.

One Willow Bridge Road Development Will Boost Vail Renaissance

Daedalus Real Estate Advisors LLC has purchased property in the center of Vail Village with plans to build one of the first major redevelopment projects in the village's renaissance.

One Willow Bridge Road will offer 23 units for ownership, including 13 exclusive fractional and 10 full ownership units with underground parking, private dining facilities and commercial retail space at the existing Swiss Hotel & Spa at the corner of East Meadow Drive and Willow Bridge Road.

The Swiss Hotel & Spa will be relocated into expanded spa facilities in the adjacent Sonnenalp Resort. Demolition of the Swiss building will take place in June followed immediately by construction of the new improvements beginning in August, scheduled for completion in December 2005.

The existing Sonnenalp Resort will also be expanded after completion of the One Willow Bridge Road project. The Sonnenalp will add 38 new hotel suites, expand existing dining room facilities, renovate and expand the combined spa and add underground parking in a second phase of the redevelopment.

The architect is Resort Design Associates International of San Francisco and Boulder; the contractor is The Weitz Co.; interior designer is Kate Bodenheimer Interior Design.

Gates to Build Customer Solutions Center

Gates Corp. has announced plans to build a customer solutions center in Douglas County that will employ approximately 45 engineers, technicians and scientists.

The $14 million facility will be built on 10 acres in the Inverness Business Park along the I-25 corridor. The 69,800-sq-ft center will serve as a technology cornerstone for the Gates Worldwide Hose and Connectors Division, housing product research, development and training. Gates expects to take occupancy in December.

The center will include space for technology development, customer engagement and training. Secure vehicle testing bays will offer mobile equipment manufacturers' confidential application testing and development.

The Gates Customer Solutions Center will be located in unincorporated Douglas County at 330 Inverness Dr. South.

Architecture and engineering is being coordinated by OZ Architecture of Boulder along with Swanson Rink Inc. of Denver. Gates is assisted by Carter of Atlanta for brokerage and project management. The Denver office of Opus Northwest LLC has been selected as the design-builder of the Gates facility.

Colarelli Construction Announces New Projects and a Completion

Colarelli Construction was recently awarded Phase I of the new Woodmen Heights religious campus at Marksheffel and Woodmen Road. The architect on the project is The Larson Group.

The campus will include 250,000 sq ft of worship and ministries facilities on a 50-acre site for the Woodmen Valley Chapel. The first phase includes a 21,000-sq-ft, multi-use worship building and a 60,000-sq-ft worship center. The project will be completed over three phases, with the final phase finishing in November 2006.

Colarelli Construction was also awarded tenant-finish of the new corporate headquarters for Nor'Wood Development Group. The project is approximately 15,000 sq ft and scheduled to be completed in July 2004.

Colarelli recently completed construction of the new headquarters for Stewart Title in the Plaza of the Rockies. Colarelli teamed with YOW Architects on the project, which was turned over March 19. Subcontractors on the project included HPE, Riviera Electric, Sprehe Interior Construction, Floorz, Premier Painting, The Door Co., Shamrock Glass and Concepts in Millwork.

Roche Announces New Projects

Roche Construction Inc. of Greeley is the general contractor for the Pepsi Bottling Co.'s new distribution center and will also complete the site development and utility infrastructure for the Greeley Tech Center.

Valued at $3.5 million, Pepsi's new facility recently broke ground at the southeast corner of Highway 257 and U.S. Highway 34 in Greeley. It is scheduled for completion this September.

Designed by Robert Shreve Architects & Planners of Greeley, the 57,000-sq-ft distribution center will include a warehouse, route truck loading area, MEM/fleet maintenance are, office and support areas and a covered receiving and shipping and dumpster containment area. The nine-acre site will also include paved access drives, 60 employee parking spaces and 29 truck parking spaces.

The Pepsi Distribution Center is the first project to be built in the Greeley Tech Center.
The 138-acre development, designed by TST Inc. of Fort Collins, consists of 26 light and medium industrial properties and a limited amount of commercial property. The land planner is DesignOne Consultants of Denver.

The industrial parcels range in size from 2.3 acres to 10.8 acres and will be available in the fall. Upon complete build-out of the Greeley Tech Center, there will be approximately 2.04 million sq ft of building space.

Mountain States Awarded Parker Adventist Project

Mountain States Construction Co. Inc. has been awarded another tenant finish project in the Parker Adventist Professional Building.

MSCC has added the 2,538-sq-ft Rocky Mountain Cancer Center suite on the fourth floor to its list, bringing the amount of tenant finish projects in that building to 17 for a total of 41,261 sq ft. To date, MSCC has been the general contractor for all of the suites but two. Total construction cost so far is $2.2 million.

Also, MSCC won the bid for the demolition of the existing station and construction of the new 2,456-sq-ft, one-story Fire Station No. 1 for West Douglas County Fire Protection District. The project broke ground in April, with a three-month construction schedule.

Ware Malcomb Announces Tenant Improvement Project Completions

Ware Malcomb has completed design and construction for SOURCECORP's tenant improvement at 369 Inverness Parkway, Suite 300, in Englewood.

SOURCECORP's new 38,000-sq-ft office space consists of open and closed offices, a multi-use conference room, two training rooms, seven large data processing rooms, a mail center, warehouse space and a state-of-the-art computer and server facility.
Turner Construction Co. of Denver served as general contractor. Total estimated construction cost was $1.24 million.

Ware Malcomb has also completed design and construction of Freeman Decorating Co.'s 59,000-sq-ft tenant improvement. The new office is at 4493 Florence St., Denver, in Building E-1 at the Stapleton Business Center.

The project included 11,000 sq ft of office, 2,000 sq ft of manufacturing and 46,000 sq ft of warehouse space. Murray and Stafford of Wheat Ridge served as the general contractor. The total estimated construction cost was $700,000.

Dohn Construction Breaks Ground at In-Situ

Dohn Construction Inc. recently broke ground on In-Situ's new water-quality testing facility in Fort Collins. The 31,500-sq-ft, $3.2 million building will be complete by September 2004.

Located along the Poudre River, the VaughtoFrye-designed building will incorporate new technology and specialized systems with harmonious interior water features, Japanese Shoji screen doors and interior board-and-batten walls.

La Bougainvillea Project Under Way

NEWSED Community Development Corp. and Key Construction recently started construction on the $7 million La Bougainvillea project at 10th Avenue and Santa Fe.

The new building will offer 38 units of affordable housing for people with incomes at or below 60 percent of the area median income. The building will include: