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The next few months should be the beginning of a downtown demolition zone as several buildings are razed to morph into a shiny, new version of a county judicial center that will jumpstart the planned downtown civic campus.

With the nine-member West Greeley Citizen Oversight Committee poised to hold its first meeting Thursday to consider the city’s next steps for the proposed Catalyst entertainment district, the mayor and City Council agree that better communication is key.

The development team led by City Street Investors’ Joe Vostrejs and Outpost Partners’ Tim Fredregill is requesting an 18-month extension for its building permits. This request was the formal reason for this week’s Broomfield City Council study session, but the occasionally testy hearing felt at times like an airing of grievances and at others like a cross-examination.

Final negotiations are underway for a Loveland church to purchase the Metrolux Dine-In Theatres in downtown Loveland in a transaction that, at least for now, will have the building hosting religious services as well as continuing as a first-run movie house.

A recent confidence survey of Colorado business leaders paints a gloomy economic picture for the second quarter of 2026.

New U.S. Census Bureau estimates show that Weld County ranks as Colorado’s fastest-growing large county, propelling it past Larimer County in population for the first time and reinforcing a regional shift that is redefining the Front Range.

Workers at JBS USA’s meatpacking plant took to the picket line Monday, with union employees braving temperatures in the teens in the first such strike at a U.S. meatpacking plant in decades.

The margin resulted in 54 percent of the votes tallied by residents.

Hudson is wrestling with the possible reopening of its long-dormant Correctional Facility, which could be used as an immigration detention center under contract with ICE.

The Hudson Town Council will set the stage to bring a new incarnation of Bandimere Speedway into town limits. The Bandimere family is partnering with longtime Colorado developers Carlson Associates to bring the project to fruition.