HomeMy WebLinkAboutHARMONY SCHOOL SHOPS PUD - PRELIMINARY - 42-89D - MEDIA - CORRESPONDENCEOld, new to live in Harmony
Rich Abrahamson/The Coloradoan
Retail -site plan
keeps in place
historic school
By DAVID PERSONS 1 Z - 18 "9 ,
The Coloradoan
Who says new development
bulldozes along with little regard
for historic preservation?
Not this developer. G.T. Land
intends to set aside the 64-year-
old Har-
School's history/132 School in
site plans for a new 194,000-
square-foot shopping center at the
northeast corner of Timberline
and Harmony roads.
"The priTary thing is the
school is going to be preserved,"
city planner Ted Shepard said.
"It's a stand-alone structure
that's going to require some up-
grades. It needs to be handicap -
accessible and must follow some
other ADA guidelines."
Plans for the Harmony School
Shops, to be built on a 20-acre
site, are up for discussion today at
the city's Planning and Zoning
Board meeting, which begins at
6:30 p.m. in City Council cham-
bers, 300 LaPorte Ave.
Shepard said the developer has
received some inquiries about
leasing the old building from a
gymnastics company, a day-care
center and a microbrewer to
CENTER OF ATTENTION: Weeds grow around the old Harmony School at will be the centerpiece of a new shopping center, which will be built around
the northeast comer of Harmony and Timberline roads. The vacant building it. The developer is presenting plans for the she at a meeting tonight. See HARMONY, Page 02
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name a few.
The configuration of the Har-
mony School Shops, around the
historic school,
calls primarily
for retail use
with two "big
box" anchors.
One Anchor site
is scheduled for
an 80,000-
square-foot
tenant, while
the other site
could house a
50,000-square-
foot tenant. In-
formation
about who the
anchor tenants
might be was
not available.
Officials of
G.T. Land
could not be
reached for
comment.
conflicting goals between current
building and growth guidelines
and those that may come about
under the City Plan that is in the
works.
Harmony history
Harmony School, at Har-
mony and Timberline roads,
was built in 1931 for the farming
community of Harmony. It is the
second school to be built on
that site to serve that district.
The school served as an edu-
cational and community center
for local farm families of the
Harmony district for several de-
cades. It is one of a few local
public buildings built during the
1930s, and represents the Art
Deco style popular at that time.
The school year was structured
around the farm schedule, with
a fall vacation planned each
year at beet -harvest time. The
school had four classrooms as
well as a full basement with a
gymnasium and kitchen.
The other
item of note to go before tonight's
board is a proposed "Pause for
Planning," authored by board
chairman Gary Carnes.
Carnes said the board is
swamped in building proposals
and can't live up to its obligations.
He also said he is concerned about
1 T,
He sees a
need to limit
development
applications for
a few months
until city of-
ficials approve
the City Plan.
If adopted,
the recom-
mendation
would be
passed along to
the City Coun-
cil.
Among other
items to be re-
viewed tonight
are:
■ Overall
development
amendment to
the Shenan-
doah planned -
unit development involving 548
acres on the west side of College
Avenue, south of Trilby Road.
■ Preliminary and final ap-
proval of a Hampton Inn to be
built in the Oakridge Business
Park, east of McMurry Drive and
south of Harmony Road.
■ Final approval of the Poudre
Valley Plaza PUD, a 90,400-
MAIN
ENTRANCE:
Clouds rise
above the main
entrance to Har-
mony School, at
the northeast
comer of Tim-
berline and Har-
mony roads.
The school was
built in 1931.
Rich Abrahamson
The Coloradoan
residential center on the south-
east corner of Horsetooth Road
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