Lafayette keeps small-town feel while offering big-time amenities

Located in eastern Boulder County at the crossroads of Colorado Highway 7, U.S. Highway 287 and the Northwest Parkway, the city of Lafayette has a major hospital, several big-name retailers and office and industrial business parks.

The city’s business-friendly amenities support a great place to live — mostly single-family neighborhoods surrounded by parks and the Indian Peaks Golf Course, an 18-hole, Hale Irwin-designed public course.

The Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center has spurred commercial growth in the southeast portion of the city. The full-service hospital has more than 200 beds and room to grow. The first new medical building on the hospital…