Greeley HP building to be demolished for school expansion

GREELEY — If all the permits fall as predicted, the former Hewlett-Packard Co. facility along 71st Avenue in Greeley will cease to exist, ending a chapter in Greeley’s business history that began in 1984.

HP envisioned the facility at one time as a key component of HP’s Colorado strategy, with plans for three additional buildings plus a training facility on part of the land where the Boomerang Golf Course now sits. Hundreds of people — about 800 at one time — worked there as part of the three-facility, Northern Colorado presence for HP in Greeley, Loveland and Fort Collins. The Greeley…