A 115-acre parcel adjacent to Interstate 25 at Johnstown may soon become home to an expansion of the U.S. Engineering Johnstown Metalworks facility.
U.S. Engineering Metalworks LLC operates its Johnstown facility at 390 Mountain View Drive. The existing facility, according to the company’s website, is said to be more than 100,000 square feet where the company manufactures and fabricates metal products that it ships throughout the United States.
The expansion, while still in the design phase, is expected to be about 135,000 square feet, said Brandon Wikoff, president of USE Real Estate Holdings LLC, the U.S. Engineering entity handling the project. The expansion will include warehouse space, a production floor and offices, he said in an email sent to BizWest. Wikoff said operations in the existing facility will continue and the new construction will create a company campus. A similar expansion is occurring in Lawrence, Kansas, he said.
“It’s expected to result in the addition of 50 jobs in the next three years,” he wrote.
In preparation for that expansion, Johnstown’s town council has approved the annexation of 115 acres of property known as J Farms. It also approved the rezoning of the property from its agricultural zoning in rural Weld County to the town’s I-1 zoning, also known as light industrial.
The property, on the southwest corner of Colo. 60 and Interstate 25, is owned by J Farms LLC, a company under the McWhinney Real Estate Services Inc. umbrella. It is immediately north of the Gateway industrial area, where U.S. Engineering has its facility.
While the annexation and zoning sailed through the Johnstown Planning and Zoning Commission on Nov. 26 and also the town council Monday night, neighboring farmers did object on the basis of the potential for light and noise pollution.
Bill Buckley, his wife Charlie and daughter Jo, all spoke at the town council’s Dec. 1 meeting when the council unanimously approved on first reading both the annexation and zoning. They said that their farm and residence, where they’ve lived for 38 years, was adversely affected by the nearby Buc-ee’s fuel and convenience store development. They also said existing light-industrial properties nearby have not been attractive neighbors.
The developer, in response, said Johnstown’s new development standards will mean less light and noise pollution and improved landscaping.
Town council member Dianne Morris pressed J Farms about how it might “be a good neighbor. We can all imagine what the impact might be” of turning farmland into an industrial development, she said.
The developer noted that buffering would be required under the town’s development code and that it would consider larger trees and other features that might reduce the impact to the neighbors.
The town council approved the annexation and zoning on second reading Monday night.
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