Blue Ocean considering 6-story downtown Fort Collins HQ

FORT COLLINS – Blue Ocean, a real estate firm that often does work for OtterBox, the protective-case maker founded by Curt Richardson, has submitted preliminary plans for a six-story headquarters to be located north of existing OtterBox buildings, at 111 S. Meldrum St. in downtown Fort Collins.

Plans for the project submitted to the city show that the headquarters would encompass 42,000 square feet of office space and a two-story, 450-space parking garage.

The city is holding a neighborhood meeting to discuss the project at 6 p.m. on Aug. 14 in the Community Room at 215 N. Mason St. This kind of meeting is a standard part of the city’s development review process that allows residents of affected neighborhoods to give input on potential projects.

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Just down the street from the potential Blue Ocean project, OtterBox has a five-story, $6 million building under construction at 331 S. Meldrum St. The proposed building would be the third constructed downtown by one of Richardson’s companies in three years.

OtterBox’s headquarters was completed in 2011 at 209 S. Meldrum St.

OtterBox officials have said that their plan is to create a “campus” in downtown Fort Collins that will house the ever-expanding ranks of employees at the company.