F.C. developer takes large role in Laramie hotel, convention project

LARAMIE, Wyo. – Five years after late Fort Collins real estate developer Bill Neal and partner Fred Croci envisioned it, a hotel, conference center and retail project in Laramie is at last moving toward a groundbreaking.

When construction begins on the UW Plaza project in May, as university officials hope, it will become the most ambitious commercial endeavor in the city’s history.

Croci, managing broker at Wheeler Commercial Property Services LLC in Fort Collins, picked up a major portion the project after close friend Neal died in a July 2004 plane crash.

As the Northern Colorado Business Report was going to press Croci…