New lifestyle center announced for Westminster

WESTMINSTER – The city of Westminster and Forest City Enterprises announced Thursday that a 12-screen AMC Theatres megaplex will be among the anchors of a 1.2 million-square-foot mixed-use project in the Interstate 25 corridor at West 144th Avenue.

The 215-acre center will also include townhouses, apartments and office space.

“This site is clearly the most desirable in the three-county area for retail development,´ said Brent McFall, Westminster city manager. The Colorado Department of Transportation recently approved an interchange at the intersection of I-25 and West 144th Avenue, a joint project by the cities of Westminster and Thornton, that’s expected to be complete by summer 2006.

The first phase of the project is planned to open before the completion of the interchange improvements.

The project is one of six new shopping centers now proposed in the I-25 corridor in the Northern Colorado-North Denver region. Others include Larkridge in Thornton, near the E-470 interchange; Palisade Park in Brighton at Colorado Highway 7, The Shops at Centerra at U.S. Highway 34, The Summit on East Harmony Road in Fort Collins, and Thompson Crossing in Johnstown, also at the U.S. 34. Interchange.

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