Economy & Economic Development  February 8, 2016

DellaCava planning 40,000-square-foot office building near 30th and Iris

BOULDER — Local developer Lou DellaCava is hoping to be able to pull building permits by this summer for a new 40,000-square-foot office building near the northeast corner of 30th Street and Iris Ave.

The two-story building atop “slightly submerged” ground-level parking is slated for 3107 Iris Ave. While DellaCava is building the new space largely on speculation, he said it’s been the desire of tenants in his building next door at 3101 Iris that has helped spur the project into motion.

“The tenants in that building are outgrowing their spaces,” DellaCava said Monday. “They’ve been poking me to do it so they could have a place to expand to.”

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Those tenants include architecture firm DTJ Design, software firm VisionLink Inc., MQ Architecture and Connect First, which provides cloud-based call center solutions and software.

DellaCava is working through the technical document review process with the city now on the new building. If all goes as planned with approvals, he said he’s hoping to have the building ready to be occupied by the second or third quarter of 2017.

The site, which also includes the First National Bank of Omaha building at 3033 Iris, was originally approved for four buildings back in the 1970s when Bank of Boulder owned the property. But only the two buildings have ever been built. DellaCava bought the site and buildings in 2008 for $5.2 million from First National, which had acquired Bank of Boulder years earlier.

DellaCava said there’s really only space for one more building on the site because of the ditch that runs through it and floodplain restrictions. Because he’s seeking to consolidate the final two buildings from the original plans into one, he’s seeking a planned-unit development amendment. That amendment can be granted by city staff, though planning board could call it up for review.

Stopping with three buildings instead of four will leave a sizeable chunk of open space on the southeast corner of the site.

“We just looked at that and analyzed it over months and concluded that there was really only one piece of ground we could put a structure on that was large enough to accommodate a 20,000-square-foot plate,” DellaCava said.

BOULDER — Local developer Lou DellaCava is hoping to be able to pull building permits by this summer for a new 40,000-square-foot office building near the northeast corner of 30th Street and Iris Ave.

The two-story building atop “slightly submerged” ground-level parking is slated for 3107 Iris Ave. While DellaCava is building the new space largely on speculation, he said it’s been the desire of tenants in his building next door at 3101 Iris that has helped spur the project into motion.

“The tenants in that building are outgrowing their spaces,” DellaCava said Monday. “They’ve been poking me to do it so…

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