Colorado Early Colleges charter school pays $8M for Fort Collins building

FORT COLLINS — Colorado Early Colleges — a Colorado Springs-based charter school organization that opened a Fort Collins campus in 2012 — closed recently on the $8.05 million purchase of an industrial building in Fort Collins, where it plans to expand its local high school offerings.

CEC bought the roughly 90,000-square-foot building at 4424 Innovation Drive from Henderson-based Merritt Professional Properties LLC. Advanced Energy Industries Inc. had occupied the building for the past several years, but Sandi Brown, head of school for CEC Fort Collins, said the company’s departure from the facility this past spring as it consolidates into fewer locations…