Real Estate: Poudre Valley Plaza sets ground-breaking for April

“We’re jazzed,´ said Bill Neal, president of Wheeler Realty Better Homes & Gardens and a general partner in the project. “It’s a goofy mixed-use deal. Traditionalists think I’m crazy for attempting it in Fort Collins. The market says it’s long overdue.”

The 7.5-acre site will be filled with seven separate buildings that include two freestanding restaurant pads and a bank, a mixture of office and retail spaces, and seven condo or apartment units on the second floor of one of the buildings.

“The radical thing is mixing office and retail with residential in the same building,´ said Neal, who said the concept…