Ladera: Timnath’s ‘welcome mat’

TIMNATH –— The Ladera locomotive is picking up steam.

Fort Collins-based developer Connell LLC recently filed a bevy of applications with the town of Timnath, highlighted by a request for annexation of approximately 184 acres for “future commercial and residential development.”

That will be part of the 240 acres that Connell sees as “reinvention” of a working gravel pit and asphalt plant on the east side of Interstate 25 south of Harmony Road and the Costco store.

The developers describe their vision for Ladera — the name comes from the Spanish word for the slope of a hill or lakeside bank — as…