Northwest Parkway nears reality

Colorado’s northwest region isn’t just bedroom communities anymore.

Boulder isn’t just a hippie college town, Broomfield isn’t just clusters of tract homes, and Louisville, Lafayette and Superior are much more than mining towns. Time was that green space was all that bordered U.S. 36. There wasn’t much to Westminster, Broomfield or Louisville back then. For that matter, there wasn’t much on Dillon Road or 96th Street either.

Broomfield Mayor Bill Berens, up for re-election this month, was excited when Broomfield finally got a McDonald’s in city limits. It meant he wouldn’t have to take his son to Arvada for a Happy Meal.

That…