Developer targets Rigden Farm for new senior housing project

FORT COLLINS – Northern Colorado’s demographic-driven rush to build retirement housing projects likely will spill next into Rigden Farm in Fort Collins, where a Denver developer plans a 129-unit apartment and cottage complex.
If approved, the independent-living center would be built on a 4.25-acre site on the northern edge of the Rigden Farm neighborhood, now under construction on the southeast corner of Timberline and Drake roads.
A three-story, horseshoe-shaped apartment building on Drake Road at Iowa Drive would house 115 residents, most of them in studio or one-bedroom apartments as small as 400 square feet. The 110,000-square-foot building would also…