Otter not boxed in by rapid growth

FORT COLLINS – Northern Colorado’s fastest growing company will soon transform a swath of downtown Fort Collins into a corporate campus.

For the last few months, OtterBox founder Curt Richardson and his wife, Nancy, have scouted out and scooped up five properties west of Old Town as part of a plan for the near future. Richardson envisions a setting spanning several city blocks that will allow the company to expand to around 500 employees.

Like the adage, when it rains real estate, it pours. After deals for seven potential properties fell through over the course of several years, OtterBox…