Superior Town Center to get first building after trustees approve sports, medical complex

Boulder Valley Ice and Indoor Sports at Superior will be open nearly 21 hours a day

An artist s rendition of the medical building that will be part of the new Boulder Valley Ice and Indoor Sports at Superior complex approved by the town s Board of Trustees on Friday night.

SUPERIOR -- The Board of Trustees gave unanimous approval Friday evening to a massive sports and medical complex, dubbed Boulder Valley Ice and Indoor Sports at Superior, to be built as one of the centerpiece structures of Superior Town Center.

The 160,000-square-foot sports complex, with an attached 60,000-square-foot medical building, will be one of the larger buildings in this town of 13,000 and will have a prominent location at the southeast corner of U.S. 36 and McCaslin Boulevard.

Developer Luke Taylor, who is heading up the $36 million project, said he hopes construction can start by late January or early February and that hockey players and recreational skaters can be sailing across the ice by fall.

"With our customer base, at least one of our sheets has to be open by September," he said, shortly after the Board of Trustees cast its 6-0 vote. "They need a place to skate."

Boulder Valley Ice and Indoor Sports at Superior is the first building approved for Superior Town Center, a 157-acre, 1,400-home mixed-use development that was hotly debated by the trustees this past summer. The board approved the town center in August.

"This is going to be a great facility," Taylor said. "There won't be another one like it in the area."

Nearly round-the-clock

The complex, with 21/2 sheets of ice, an indoor soccer field, a restaurant and a coffee shop, is expected to draw up to 1.6 million people a year. It will be open from 5:30 a.m. to 2 a.m., 360 days a year. The Rocky Mountain Roughriders, the Broomfield Soccer Club, Boulder Valley Lacrosse and the Rocky Mountain Hockey League have all booked playing time at the new complex starting this fall.

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Superior Town Center to get first building after trustees approve sports, medical complex