Main Street moved to I-25, NoCo developers followed

As Interstate 25 became Northern Colorado’s Main Street in the late 1990s, developers started toying with plans for what would soon become the booming corridors of the region.

In the late 1990s, commercial buildings merely dotted the interchanges along the highway. Long stretches of farmland still occupied the miles between the cities and towns. Developers who correctly predicted the drawing power of the region’s only major transportation corridor then have since harvested a bumper crop of retail, office and industrial construction. The commercial market is no longer flourishing in the Great Recession, but the buildings that sprouted during…