Developers Pushing Plan for Possible 17.5 Mil-SF Business Park

THORNTON, CO-Veteran developers Harvey Deutsch and Joel Farkas are planning a massive business park that they want to annex to this city, a bedroom community north of Denver.

The focal point of the 1,839-acre master-planned community is the 942-acre Centricom-Colorado. When completed, it could have as much as 17.5 million sf, which real estate experts say in today’s dollars would have a value of about $2.6 billion.

“We believe it would be the largest business park in the metro area,” the developer’s spokesman, Bill Kostka told GlobeSt.com. Other parks such as the Meridian International Business Park at the other end of the metro area have more acreage, but they also have golf courses, Kostka points out. An 18-hole, championship golf course also is planned at the Thornton development, but it would be separate from Centricom, he explains. The plan also calls for nearly 5,000 housing units, with mass appeal pricing from first-time homebuyers to executives.