Developers raise the roof on downtown buildings

A building in downtown Fort Collins that began as a church, then morphed into a movie theater, a sporting goods store and an office building, is changing the look of College Avenue.

Owners of Northern Engineering, a civil engineering firm with about 40 employees, are adding three stories onto the old Blue Cross/Blue Shield Building on the southeast corner of College and Oak, next door to the Aggie Theater. The $3 million project is expected to be completed in August.

“Last week I was able to stand on the fourth floor for the first time,´ said George Schock, president of…