By Michelle Vendegna, Loveland Reporter-Herald
FORT COLLINS — Fort Collins is one step closer to getting its own butterfly house.
Thursday afternoon, officials from city of Fort Collins, The Gardens on Spring Creek and the Butterfly Pavilion signed a partnership agreement for a new butterfly center in the middle of the city.
“It was no-brainer,” said Patrick Tennyson, president and CEO of the Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster, of the partnership.
The Northern Colorado butterfly house will be located at Gardens on Spring Creek, 2145 Centre Ave., Fort Collins. The gardens opened in 2004 offering educational programming as well as a being a cultural destination. Visitors can stroll through several types of gardens on the property, including Plant Select Demonstration Garden and Sustainable Backyard.
The butterfly house will be part of the visitor center expansion slated for construction in 2018 and completion in 2019. The $3 million project will get funding from the Community Capital Improvement Program that Fort Collins voters passed in 2015 ($2 million) and $1 million through a fundraising campaign.
“For the gardens, it will make us more of a year-round destination,” Gardens on Spring Creek executive director Michelle Provaznik said. It will also offer another interactive educational tool. “It will allow us to do a different twist on things.”
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