September 21-October 4, 2016 —
COLORADO REAL ESTATE JOURNAL
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Construction, Design & Engineering News
The Colorado State Univer-
sity Health and Medical Center
held a topping out celebration to
recognize the halfway point of
construction with the placement
of the final structural steel beam.
Adolfson & Peterson Con-
struction and Bennett Wagner
Grody Architects, as design-
build partners, were selected to
complete design and construc-
tion for the new $59 million facil-
ity on the Colorado State Uni-
versity campus in Fort Collins.
“The big vision is to improve
the health and the presence of
health and well-being on our
campus,” Anne Hudgens, exec-
utive director of CSU Health
Network, said at the topping out
celebration. “We’re pioneering
new ground with an opportu-
nity to do something for campus
and community health that’s
never been done before.”
Sitting on the northwest cor-
ner of South College Avenue
and West Prospect Road, the
156,000-square-foot, four-story
building will stand as a promi-
nent new gateway to the cam-
pus, while consolidating the uni-
versity’s health care services into
one location.
The building, owned and
operated by CSU, will house
full medical, mental health and
health education and prevention
services for CSU students, pro-
videdby theCSUStudentHealth
Network, which will occupy the
entire second and third floors of
the building. It also will include
services for the public through
agreements with UCHealth and
Associates in Family Medicine,
including a walk-in clinic and
occupational health services for
the community. A full-service
pharmacy also will be open to
the general public. In addition,
the building will house the Col-
umbine Health Systems Center
for Healthy Aging, establishing
collaborative research on aging
and educational, community
outreach programs.
The new medical cen-
ter is scheduled to open next
summer.
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Ware Malcomb, an award-
winning international design
firm, announced that Jansen
Strawn Consulting Engineers, a
Denver-based civil engineering
firm, has joined the Ware Mal-
comb team.
Jansen Strawn provides pro-
fessional engineering services in
the commercial and residential
real estate development indus-
try, the latter of which represents
a new market for Ware Mal-
comb. The 40-person firm will
now operate as Jansen Strawn
Consulting Engineers, a Ware
Semple Brown announced
that construction began in
August on the town of Winter
Park’s new permanent stage
to be located in the Hideaway
Park Events Space in down-
town Winter Park.
In spring 2014, Winter Park
contracted with Semple Brown
to design a permanent stage
that would accommodate the
existing uses of the summer
concert and event series while
allowing future programs to
grow and accommodate year-
round usage into the future.
Semple Brown’s design fea-
tures a 2,600-square-foot hand-
icapped accessible stage; it will
replace the park’s demountable
structure used since 2008 for
summer festivals and a variety
of events programming.
“This was such a special proj-
ect for our design team as we
all love Colorado’s mountain
communities and understand
their significance to our state,”
said Tom Gallagher, AIA, prin-
cipal of Semple Brown. “We are
thrilled to have the opportu-
nity to work with the town of
Winter Park, and to have cre-
ated a design inspired by their
long-term vision for their com-
munity and Hideaway Park.”
The stage, a concrete and
stone structure, will rise from
a solid, earth-bound base. A
large, dynamic canopy emu-
lating “first tracks,” drifts and
moguls – consisting of white-
painted steel, a white mem-
brane roof and wood slat ceil-
ing – will float over the stage
as it gently twists and curves
skyward over the stage and
structures below, according to
Semple Brown.
The front of the stage cas-
cades down into the seating
bowl to lessen the impact of its
sightline-required height and
provide seating areas facing
back into the bowl to activate
the stage during the nonfesti-
val uses. Because the bowl will
be used as a sledding hill dur-
ing the winter, the front stage
seat-steps will provide a place
for observers to watch the
action and as they enjoy a pan-
oramic view of the ski moun-
tain and Continental Divide to
the south.
A fully heated and cooled
greenroombuildingopensonto
a backstage plaza, which looks
out on Vasquez Creek through
oversized operable glass walls.
The structure includes 835 sf of
assembly space, a kitchen, two
restrooms, make-up area and
mechanical room. Backstage
loading and side stage mon-
itor-mixing structures frame
the main stage and serve as
stone-clad anchors for the stage
and soaring, undulating roof.
A 12-space paved parking area
and backstage loading com-
plete the park’s master plan.
Completion is projected for
July 2017. The general contrac-
tor is BigValleyConstruction.
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Rendering depicts new Hideaway Park stage in Winter Park
Alliance Construction Solu-
tions recently began construc-
tion of Colewood Apartments,
a newmultifamily development
at 3860 Tennyson St. in Denver.
As the most recent develop-
ment for Riverpoint Partners of
Denver, this project will feature
49 luxury apartments with great
views located in the heart of the
Tennyson retail blocks in Den-
ver’s Berkeley Neighborhood.
Designed by Craine Archi-
tecture, Colewood Apartments
features one- and two-bedroom
units, community room, under-
ground parking and private roof
balconies.
A true “zero-lot line” project,
Colewood Apartments will fill
nearly 100 percent of the prop-
erty area. Construction is sched-
uled for completion in spring
2017.
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Rendering depicts Colewood Apartments
Stargate, a new $51 mil-
lion charter school located on
a 43-acre campus and part of
a 70-acre mixed-use develop-
ment in Thornton, recently
opened. Stargate is the largest
charter school project in Colo-
rado, the largest gifted school
in the state and the second-
largest charter school project to
be completed in the nation.
The school, which serves
gifted children kindergarten
through high school, is part of
a mixed-use development in
Thornton, in which 5 acres of
retail space and/or commercial
support property is planned
adjacent to the educational
facility. The mixed-use nature
of the development is part of
a public-private partnership
between Stargate School, the
city of Thornton, the landown-
er, investors and the design/
