March 9, 2001

Boulder ice rink may get new home downtown

By Amy Stogner

BOULDER ? The city’s ice rink, which has had a tumultuous history of moving every year, may have found a permanent home.

The W.W. Reynolds Companies Inc., developers of One Boulder Plaza, a mixed-use development planned for the area between Broadway and 14th Street and Walnut Street and Canyon Boulevard, hopes to have the rink relocated to the area along 13th St. in the center of their development.

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The ice rink was started two years ago at 16th Street and Pearl Street by Chris Dailey, director of Boulder Creek Festival. This year, Boulder Creek Festival had to relocate the ice rink because Borders Books Music & Café was built on that corner, so it was moved to its present location on 13th Street between Canyon Boulevard and Arapahoe Road, Dailey said.

Reynolds wants to locate the ice rink at its proposed development and the city and the Boulder Business Improvement District are supporting moving the rink, Dailey said. Boulder Creek Festival will keep the ice rink at its current location until Reynolds builds the foundation for the rink at its proposed development, he said.

According to plans for One Boulder Plaza, the ice rink would be used for three to four months of the year, and during the rest of the year it would become a plaza area with a fountain, said Bill Reynolds, president of W.W. Reynolds.

Surrounding the rink on all sides, Reynolds said his company is planning about 100,000 square feet of mixed-use development, including housing units, retail, restaurants and office space.

Reynolds envisions the project as becoming an extension of the Pearl Street Mall to the south, he said. “The city has lost sales tax dollars to FlatIron Crossing,” he said. “This may be a way to compensate on retail because nobody can replace our Boulder Mall.” BYE-BYE GRAFITTI: Paul Epp, Downtown Boulder Business Improvement District’s new operations manager, has been busy removing the graffiti that has been appearing around Boulder and supervising the contractors who also remove graffiti.

Epp, a Boulder native who now lives in Estes Park, started his new job in late February. He has removed graffiti from behind ArtSource International, the Vectra Bank building, the newspaper boxes and telephones on the 1100 block of Pearl and the west side of Mountain Sun. He also has removed graffiti from alleys at the 1200 block of Spruce and Pearl and other alleys in the city. “Every alley’s got some in Boulder,” he said.

To remove the graffiti, Epp and the contractors either spray paint over it or use a cleaning solution. “It depends upon the surface its on,” he said.

If people within the Boulder Business Improvement District, which is the area surrounding Pearl Street Mall with Pine Street at its northernmost boundary, Seventh Street to the West, Arapahoe Avenue to the south and 21st Street to the east, notice graffiti, they can call Epp at (303) 449-3774 to get it removed. PICOLIGHT EXPANSION: Picolight, a Boulder-based developer and manufacturer of laser-based optoelectric components and subassemblies, recently leased 60,362 square feet of space in Building A of the Colorado Technology Center in Louisville.

The company, which received $52 million of venture capital, is using the space to expand its company, which currently occupies 26,000 square feet in Boulder, said Lynn Watson, director of marketing and communications.

Picolight won two awards recently at the Optix 2001 conference in Pasadena, Calif. The company received one of the top 10 “Investors’ Choice” awards based on its business plan, and Chief Technical Officer Jack Jewell won “Best Technical Advance in Optical Communications” for his research and commercial development of lasers.

Picolight was founded in 1995 and, between January of last year and this February, the company grew from 43 to 140 employees, Watson said. The company plans to keep expanding its staff this year.

The Boulder space houses a combination of engineering, testing, administration and manufacturing, and the new space in Louisville will house manufacturing.

Picolight’s lease comprises more than half of Building A at the Colorado Technology Center, a single-story facility providing offices and functional bay areas with available docks and drive-in doors.

LAFAYETTE

LEASE SPACE FOR DATA: DCS Inc., a Lafayette-based software development company, has begun leasing space for Internet and e-commerce companies to house data and computer equipment.

“In addition to software development, we built a state-of the art Co-location Data Center,´ said Bud Frith, vice president of marketing. “It is the next level of what will be needed. Things are moving along, although not as quickly as we want, especially because of the condition of the Internet market.”

DCS has leased space in its Co-location Data Center to a couple of companies who choose not to be named and is looking for more tenants, he said.

DCS Inc. has a total of 5,000 square feet in the Lafayette Tech Center and is using 3,000 of that to house its Co-location Data Center.

LONGMONT

DEVELOPMENT CODE UPDATE: The city of Longmont is in the process of updating its development code and the Longmont Area Economic Council is working to examine these updates as they might affect primary employers now and in the future. To see the revisions planned, go to the city’s website at www.ci.longmont.co.us/planning/devupdates.htm or call the planning office for a copy of the CD with changes on it. For further questions about the Economic Council’s evaluation of the code, call John Cody at 303-651-0128.

KUDOS FOR PRUDENTIAL: Longmont’s Prudential LTM Realtors was honored recently at the National Prudential Convention in Las Vegas with the Pinnacle Office Award for 2000. The Prudential Real Estate Affiliates Inc. gives this award to the top 10 commercial offices in the United States.

Several Longmont Realtors will be given individual awards for associates of Prudential Commercial Real Estate. These awards will be presented at the Prudential 2001 Sales Convention in Las Vegas in March. Longmont recipients are Ed Kanemoto and Tim Hill, who will receive the Chairman’s Award; Ken Kanemoto, who will be given the President’s Award; Greg Rosener and Julie Strapp, who will be awarded the Leading Edge; and Bayne Gibson, who will be honored with the Summit Award.

Also, Ed Kanemoto will receive the Top of the Rock award at the 2001 Sales Convention. This award names Kanemoto as the number one commercial sales associate out of 9,788 agents in the central region.BROOMFIELD

NEW TECHNOLOGY CENTER: TelePlace LLC, a Florida company that leases and operates data center facilities, is constructing a center in Broomfield. The Broomfield Technology Center will consist of two buildings to be located at 11575 and 11525 Main St in Broomfield.

TelePlace is a company that acquires buildings, prepares them for use as data centers and leases them out and also runs and operates some of its own data centers, said Scott Haugland, the company’s president. Data centers are areas where computer equipment for the Internet is stored, he explained. Portions of data center buildings can be leased out to small tenants who may use only a two-by-three-foot space or to large clients. such as Qwest, Sprint, Worldcom or AT&T, who may use 50,000 to 100,000 square feet, he said.

Panattoni Development Company LLC, a real estate development firm with headquarters in Sacramento, Calif., is constructing the center. The campus will be a total of 195,200 square feet with two buildings, one 92,800 square feet and the other 102,400 square feet.

Construction already has begun on the center and is scheduled to be complete in July, Haugland said.

The buildings will be leased out to tenants which TelePlace will begin acquiring in April, he said. “We’ve had several calls already, and the buildings aren’t even up yet,” he said.

TelePlace was looking at Denver for a new building, Haugland explained, but the city has limited power available, so it looked at Broomfield. “Broomfield has a high concentration of technology users and had a high availability of power,” he said. “We have a good feeling about that market.”

TelePlace has corporate offices in Boca Raton, Fla. and Noordwijk, the Netherlands. The company has a data center in Miami and, along with the Broomfield center, is currently building them in Paris, France, Frankfurt, Germany, the Netherlands, Atlanta, Tampa, Fla., Washington, D.C. and Dallas.

GENERAL

OPEN SPACE SAVED: More than 400 acres of land in Boulder County will forever remain open space with the help of lottery dollars recently awarded to preserve a parcel of land north of Nederland and one in Ward.

Great Outdoors Colorado recently awarded $225,000 to Boulder County to buy and preserve 400 acres north of Nederland. This project is the largest of six grants from lottery funds in the Denver area.

The funding will help Boulder County acquire conservation easements for the 233-acre Caribou Meadow and the 165-acre Lakewood parcels north of Nederland. The lottery dollars are the final step in a city-county preservation effort to prevent future development of this mountain ranch.

Also benefiting from the Great Outdoors Colorado program is the town of Ward, which will receive $92,935 to help preserve 38 acres west of town. The town has been trying to protect this area for 18 years. Total cost of the project is $182,000. Residents use the area for hiking and picnicking.

By Amy Stogner

BOULDER ? The city’s ice rink, which has had a tumultuous history of moving every year, may have found a permanent home.

The W.W. Reynolds Companies Inc., developers of One Boulder Plaza, a mixed-use development planned for the area between Broadway and 14th Street and Walnut Street and Canyon Boulevard, hopes to have the rink relocated to the area along 13th St. in the center of their development.

The ice rink was started two years ago at 16th Street and Pearl Street by Chris Dailey, director of Boulder Creek Festival. This year, Boulder Creek Festival had to relocate the ice…

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