Broomfield’s sixth charter school—Prospect Ridge Academy—recently opened its 45,000-sq-ft school building in North Park at the northwest corner of Preble Creek Parkway and Sheridan Parkway, immediately adjacent to the Anthem residential community, one of the fastest growing communities in Colorado. 
North Park, a 935-acre mixed-use community developed by Loveland-based developer McWhinney, is located just west of I-25 and Highway 7—a major growth corridor along the Front Range. Photo courtesy of McWhinney Prospect Ridge Academy, a new public Adams 12 district-approved Core Knowledge charter school, offers a rigorous college-preparatory curriculum, with a math and science focus. Prospect Ridge Academy is the

Construction manager/general contractor Pinkard Construction Co., Lakewood, working with Parikh Stevens Architects, Denver, has completed renovation of the 192,000-sq-ft Westwood Homes for the Denver Housing Authority. Photo courtesy of Pinkard Construction Co. Pinkards project at 855 Irving St. included partial renovations and small additions to 184 townhomes in 23 buildings where the upgrades are expected to provide a 15% decrease in energy consumption. The $13.1-million project at 855 Irving St. included partial renovations and small additions to 184 townhomes in 23 buildings, plus one building renovation for Catholic Charities’ Headstart program at the same location. Work on this 1950s two-story

Barker Rinker Seacat Architecture (BRS) of Denver, in association with SFS Architecture of Kansas City, Mo., has won a national design competition for the new Olathe Community Center planned for Olathe, Kan. BRS will serve as the architect-of-record and design architect, with SFS as associate architect. Rendering by BRS Architecture The recreation center will include a gymnasium, fitness center, indoor aquatics, community rooms, outdoor living room spaces, an amphitheater and great lawn. With total funding established at $22.5 million, the current construction budget for the 60,000-sq-ft project stands at $16.5 million. The site for the Olathe Community Center is planned

Denver-based architectural firm of klipp has merged with gkkworks, a national architectural, engineering and construction firm based in Irvine, Calif. Klipp had been seeking to partner with a firm to grow market diversity and expand services while gkkworks was looking for a reputable Denver firm that shared its collaborative culture to help it expand into the Denver market. Now klipp will continue its operations as a division of gkkworks.This new business entity will be based in Colorado, service clients from the current office and continue to be managed by existing klipp staff. Klipp principals Brian Klipp, Alan Colussy, Greg Cromer

The Denver City Council recently approved a plan to redevelop Marycrest, a former convent at the northeast corner of West 52nd Avenue and Federal Boulevard in Denver. The plan creates the Marycrest Urban Redevelopment Area, allowing for the use of tax increment financing (TIF) to support redevelopment at the site. Rendering courtesy of Urban Ventures Rendering of the West 52nd Avenue Townhomes planned for the Marycrest redevelopment. The project will redevelop 18 acres with about 360 new residential units, a 50,000-sq-ft parcel for commercial development and preserve the site’s existing 18-resident Warren Village, which provides transitional housing for women and

Full construction will get under way this spring at the new Aspen Art Museum, but the Denver office of Turner Construction, in partnership with Roaring Fork Valley contractor Summit Construction, has already begun preconstruction and general contracting services on the nearly $16-million building. Rendering by Shigeru Ban Architects The new 30,000-sq-ft AAM facility will be built at South Spring Street and East Hyman Avenue in downtown Aspen. After nearly 32 years of operating in a converted, historic hydroelectric plant on North Mill Street, the museum— which attracts 35,000 visitors a year from around the world—will move to a new 30,000-sq-ft

Members of the Utah chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America gathered for their annual convention during the last week of January, with three days of meetings, seminars and a celebration of the construction industry in the Beehive state. Photo by Brian Fryer Spencer P. Eccles of the Utah Governor's Office of Economic Development lays out the state's plans to encourage growth and construction in the coming years. In keeping with the theme of “Perspective,” the convention began with a state economic outlook from Spencer P. Eccles, executive director of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development. Eccles provided some

Wheeler Machinery Co., a Salt Lake City-based Caterpillar dealer, has created a new division to serve the mining industry—Wheeler Mining Systems. The division offers equipment, support and solutions for the regional mining industry. Courtesy of Wheeler Machinery Co. Rope shovels will be part of Wheeler Mining Systems' new equipment offerings. With Caterpillar’s acquisition of Bucyrus, a manufacturer of high-productivity mining equipment for the surface and underground mining industries, Wheeler will be able to soon offer complete mining systems previously unavailable from one source. New equipment offerings will include blast hole drills, draglines, rope shovels and underground mining equipment to dozers,

International engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti opened a new office in Denver on Jan 30. The firm, which now has 25 offices internationally, started the Colorado location to better serve current and potential clients in the western region and the mountain states. Senior Principal Steve Hofmeister will oversee the office as manager of the company’s Midwest region. The new office will offer Thornton Tomasetti clients the services of its building structure, construction support services, property loss consulting and building performance practices. Thornton Tomasetti has been involved in a number of high-profile design projects in Denver, among them the Pepsi Center, Vestas

The Salt Lake City School District is in the final stages of a $401-million seismic upgrade or replacement of all district facilities, with two projects to be completed this summer before the 24-year effort is finally done. Photo by Brian Fryer East High School in the Salt Lake City School District was completely rebuilt as part of a 24-year effort to make all district schools more seismically stable. East was the first of 20 schools rebuilt to meet new seismic and programming standards, while 16 schools were retrofitted. Of the 36 school buildings in the district, 22 were replaced and