BCH plans multistory medical building near Foothills campus

BOULDER — Boulder Community Health plans to build a 75,000-square-foot, three- to four-story medical building in the Riverbend business park east of its Foothills Hospital campus in east Boulder.

Hospital officials had a pre-application meeting Thursday with city planners, starting the process that in addition to gaining building approval, will require a rezoning of the area and a height-restriction modification. Over the past several years, the hospital has been buying property in Riverbend.

Frank Bruno, president of the Boulder Community Health Foundation, said Friday that the building would be used to house its behavioral health and in-patient rehabilitation divisions, along with an…