Woodward’s new home on the rise

A lot is happening these days at the old Link-N-Greens golf course, and at 4 p.m. Aug. 7 the public will have a chance to take a look.

Mortenson Construction Co. is planning a “community outreach event” to show off its progress on building Woodward Inc.’s 101-acre corporate campus.

Woodward, which has operated in Fort Collins since the 1950s, is moving to the site near Mulberry Street and Lemay Avenue from its current headquarters just to the south on Drake Road west of Lemay.

Woodward makes energy and aerospace control systems. It employs 1,200 in Fort Collins and Loveland and expects to employ…