High-end storage: Developer Eric Bush plans to build a $7 million self-storage facility on about 2.3 acres he purchased from KRMA-Channel 6.
At about $1.65 a square foot per month, the rates at Leetsdale Self Storage, 6150 E. Leetsdale Drive, will be the highest in the city, Bush said.
“Typically with self-storage, you’re doing well if you get a buck a square foot,” he said.
Because the 100,000-square-foot facility will add just 12 cars a day to neighborhood roads, Bush said he has the support of the Virginia Vale and George Washington homeowners groups.
Texas team: A father-son team from Texas is trying its hand at developing townhouses in Denver’s Highland.
Phil and Tom Herring are building Cityscape Townhomes, a three-story, seven-unit residential townhome development in the historic Jefferson Park neighborhood. Prices range from $284,900 to $329,000.
Troy Townsend of Re/Max City Horizons is marketing the townhouses in the 2400 block of Decatur Street. They are expected to be completed this summer.
Smart growth: ULI Colorado this month will kick off an alliance aimed at getting groups with disparate viewpoints to agree on what smart growth is.
The organization is one of three district councils to receive a $5,000 Environmental Protection Agency/Urban Land Institute Grant to form the smart- growth alliance, said Michael Leccese, director of ULI Colorado.
The alliance, co-chaired by Ar7 architect Richard Epstein and Northglenn city planner Terence Quinn, will include developers, homebuilders and environmental groups. The official committee has not yet been named, Leccese said.
Hurricane house: Proceeds from the sale of a home built by a Colorado Springs homebuilder, its subcontractors and suppliers will be donated to Habitat for Humanity to help hurricane victims.
Spearheaded by Saddletree/Symphony Homes president Lee Bolin, the effort involved more than 400 people from 75 companies who pitched in to build Katrina House. The northeastern Colorado Springs home recently sold to Ron and Evelyn Nighswonger, and about $225,000 will be donated to Habitat for Humanity to build homes in the Gulf Coast region for hurricane victims. One home will be built for a Katrina evacuee family that has decided to settle in Colorado Springs.
Staff writer Margaret Jackson can be reached at 303-820-1473 or mjackson@denverpost.com.
