Ursa Major purchases 90-acre property in Berthoud, ramps up hiring and production

BERTHOUD — With its recent acquisition of its own facilities and property at 19750 Weld County Road 7, rocket engine manufacturer Ursa Major Technologies Inc. is set to expand and ramp up production for the budding private aerospace industry.

Ursa Major had leased space at the property — a 90-acre former Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. test facility in the Berthoud Tech Center — since 2016, when it subleased a small bunker building. In 2019, it began leasing the rest of the space. Then last month, it purchased the land for $7 million. 

“We’d always wanted to buy this land,” Ursa Major…