Indiana firm buys Longmont land for proposed 276-unit apartment complex

LONGMONT — An affiliate of Indiana-based development firm Thompson Thrift closed recently on the $3.45 million purchase of a 23-acre parcel of land near the Harvest Junction shopping center in Longmont where it aims to build a 276-unit apartment complex.

The property sits on the south side of East Ken Pratt Boulevard and borders the parcels on which Sunflower Bank and Panda Express sit at the east end of the shopping center. Denver-based Longmont Quail Road LP sold the land.

Officials for Thompson Thrift couldn’t be reached Wednesday. But plans filed with the city indicate that the complex, dubbed Watermark at Harvest…