Alta Aspen Grove, a new 280-unit luxury apartment complex, officially opened its doors in mid-June in Littleton, Colo., just west of Denver. Photo by Elevate Photography, Courtesy of Wood Partners The Alta Aspen Grove is the first new luxury apartment community to open this year in the Denver metro area. Located on 17.5 acres at 7317 South Platte River Parkway, Alta Aspen Grove is adjacent to a nature preserve, a bicycle greenway path and a light rail station, and immediately adjacent to the upscale Aspen Grove Shopping Center. The gated, garden-style community of two- and three-story buildings offers one-, two-

The 21-mile-long Provo Reservoir Canal, which has delivered water from the Provo River to farms and residents of northern Utah County for a century, is finally getting a significant makeover. Photo courtesy of Provo River Water Users Association A new steel pipeline will soon carry Provo River water through the Provo Reservoir Canal. Once the pipe is buried, it will be topped with a paved walking trail. Photo courtesy of Provo River Water Users Association The 126-in. steel pipe gradually fills the open canal trench. When complete, the watertight pipeline will save nearly 8,000 acre-ft of water a year. When

Design firms across the mountain states are reportedly suffering the same malaise: financially stalled projects, a sluggish economic recovery and too much competition for shrinking public-sector work. Rendering Courtesy of RNL The RNL-designed Metro State Student Success Building will become the western gateway to the Auraria Campus in Denver. Rendering Courtesy of Anderson Mason Dale Architects The Southeast Wyoming Welcome Center in Cheyenne has a cutting-edge residential appeal. An AIA Architecture Billings Index national survey of April business activity confirms at least part of the story, with 63% of firms surveyed reporting they have at least one project stalled from

Metro West Housing Solutions recently hosted the grand opening of Creekside West in Lakewood, the latest installment to its Creekside Senior Living Campus and MWHS’s greenest community to date. Lakewood Mayor Bob Murphy, accompanied by more than 80 industry leaders, attended the grand opening on May 11 and toured the facility, getting a first-hand look at its eco-friendly features. Courtesy of Metro West Housing Solutions The May 11 "green" ribbon-cutting at Creekside West featured more than 80 local dignitaries and regional and national housing officials. Murphy and Rick Garcia, regional administrator for the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development

The granite front steps of the Denver City and County Building will be in pristine condition when the inauguration ceremony for Michael Hancock, Denver’s 45th mayor, is conducted there on July 18. Courtesy of BRS BRS is restoring the granite front steps of Denver's City and County Building. But the project is not just a facelift for the cameras.Masonry contractor Building Restoration Specialties Inc. (BRS) is restoring the existing stone steps, utilizing replacement granite where needed from another set of steps workers unearthed onsite. As part of the restoration process, BRS has removed the steps and is in process of

Weifield Group Contracting is providing electrical services for modernization of the Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building in Grand Junction. Upon completion in 2013, the Aspinall building is expected to be the GSA’s first net-zero-energy building on the National Register of Historic Places. The remodel will transform the 92-year-old structure into a sustainable facility. It is Weifield’s third net-zero project. Weifield plans to match and redesign historical fixtures while pursuing the highest LEED efficiency for the historic GSA project.The three-story building is named after Wayne Aspinall, who served from 1949-1973 in the U.S. House of Representatives from Colorado’s Fourth District. The

Wonderland Hill Development Co. started construction in late May on Washington Village in Boulder. When complete, the Boulder co-housing community will have 33 residences with a combination of lofts, flats, townhomes and single-family residences. 
Phase One includes the school flats, two carriage homes and six single-family homes surrounding a planned city park at 13th and Cedar streets. Phase Two will consist of the remaining 17 living residences in four buildings that surround a courtyard, preserving the large maple tree on the north side of the school. The largest building fronts along Broadway with parking underneath and will contain the co-housing

Since fall 1998, the Walking Mountains Science Center in Avon, Colo., has inspired environmental stewardship through natural science education. To accommodate growing demand and interest by public and private schools throughout the Vail Valley, the center selected architecture firms Zehren & Associates, Avon, and Mithun, Seattle, to design a four-building campus that would live up to its dedication to sustainability, environmental awareness and science education. Courtesy of Zehren & Associates The new Walking Mountains Science Center in Avon will use specially treated beetle-kill pine for all of the exteriors on its campus buildings. The Science Center will be completed in

Northern Colorado military veterans and their families and members of the community celebrated the grand opening of Veterans Plaza in Fort Collins—a site of celebration, reflection and congregation honoring military service—on May 29.. The plaza is located at the west end of Horsetooth Road, at the south entrance to Spring Canyon Park. Veterans Plaza consists of an amphitheater with seating for 500, a statue depicting a soldier holding a child, a stage, a garden, and interactive walls commemorating the service of veterans with ties to Northern Colorado. The garden will contain soils from around the globe from battlefields, cemeteries and military