Developers break ground on The Armory redevelopment

BOULDER — Developers of The Armory project in Boulder officially kicked off the project with a ground-breaking celebration Thursday, almost 17 years after Bruce Dierking and Jim Loftus initially conceived the idea of redeveloping the Colorado National Guard property on North Broadway in Boulder.
The event — dubbed a “mud-breaking” by one attendee due to the wet conditions after a fall snowstorm — was kicked off by Steven Shores, president and CEO of Pollack Shores Real Estate Group LLC, an Atlanta-based development group that acquired the almost 9-acre…