Illinois developer planning mixed-use project in Boulder County adjacent to Nine Mile

LAFAYETTE — Chicagoland builder Kensington Development Partners intends to transform a roughly 40-acre vacant lot in Boulder County due west of Erie’s Nine Mile shopping center into a new mixed-use district that could eventually be home to residences, a variety of businesses and perhaps even lodging. 

Representatives with the developer, its consultants and Lafeyette’s planning department met with neighbors around the southwest corner of U.S. Highway 287 and Arapahoe Road to introduce the idea last week. Lafayette planners are involved from this very preliminary stage of the development process because Kensington intends to ask the city to annex the property, which…