Efficiency apartments planned at Boulder commercial site

BOULDER — Stok Investment Group, a real estate development firm that specializes in green residential projects aimed at middle-income earners, plans to raze a pair of commercial buildings at 2206 Pearl St.  in Boulder and replace them with efficiency apartments.

The project, which proposes 45 units on just under a half-acre, also calls for 2,100 square feet of commercial space.

The market-rate units would be about 300 square feet, and would meet a community need for housing targeting those who earn too much to qualify for subsidized housing and too little to afford the luxury options that abound in Boulder, Ross Holbrook,…