Uncle Benny’s closes Saturday; new facility may be months off

LOVELAND and JOHNSTOWN — Uncle Benny’s Building Supplies LLC will close its doors in Loveland on Saturday. It hopes to reopen at a new location near the Candlelight Dinner Playhouse in Johnstown in a few months.

The recycled and reclaimed building supply store has operated at 1815 S. County Road 13C, just south of Colorado Highway 402, since 1998. As noted in a Reporter-Herald news story, the business was forced to close or make changes after the county determined that it had been operating out of compliance with county building codes for 20 or more years. 

Jamie Cameron, inventory manager for the business, said the new location will be on agricultural land in Johnstown on Marketplace Drive that will be redeveloped for the business. He did not know a street address for the property. He said it is going through the development process in Johnstown.

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Johnstown officials said that the property does not yet have an address. It has been annexed and zoned; it is known as the Johnson’s Corner Annexation, said Jamie Barker, spokesperson for the town. 

The site was purchased from Johnson-Taylor Family Properties LLLP by the Sandra L. Aste Revocable Trust on March 31 for $650,000, according to Larimer County Assessor records. The Ben Aste family has been the owner of Uncle Benny’s since its start.

The site plan is under review, Barker said, and she was not aware of a time frame for approvals.

The business Facebook page invited customers to take advantage of the store-closing clearance sale. The page also showed an architectural drawing for the new store, created by Lodestone Design Group based in Frederick.