Demolition, redevelopment underway at Longmont's Butterball site

The former Butterball plant at 150 Main St. is in the midst of demolition Wednesday. (Vince Winkel / Longmont Times-Call)

While a lot of the old Butterball plant near First Avenue and Main Street remains intact, city officials and project developers report that plans for the area are moving forward and there is tangible progress.

"We've started recycling the old equipment and materials," explained Brian Bair of 150 Main LLC, the developer of the property. He represents both the property owner and Niwot-based 150 Main. "The demolition has started and we are breaking down portions of the site."

Already, portions of the Butterball building are coming down, as walls have been removed and the insides are being either demolished or repurposed. Bair says the entire structure will be gone by the end of this year.

The developers are currently focused on the first of several phases, which is the redevelopment of 150 Main St. and the old plant.

"We're talking about Class A multi-family apartments, with some office and retail space," Bair said. "That's about 300 or more multi-family units and up to 12,000 square feet of new commercial space."

Bair says the goal is to have the new building in place by early summer 2015.

The hope is the project extends the downtown feel of Main Street further south.

"Does it have a downtown feel?" asked David Starnes, Longmont's Redevelopment & Revitalization manager. He thinks it will. "It should grow the downtown area. We're pretty excited about it."

That growth will equal more jobs, more housing, more retail and more tax revenue for Longmont.

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Demolition, redevelopment underway at Longmont's Butterball site