LOVELAND — Martin Marietta Materials, which hopes to build asphalt and concrete plants at a site off U.S. 34 east of Loveland, has scheduled an open house Tuesday to share information about the proposal.
The event will take place 4-7 p.m. in the Best Western Plus Crossroads Inn and Conference Center’s Vista Room, 5542 E. Eisenhower Blvd. in Loveland.
Representatives of Martin Marietta and its consultant, Tetra Tech, will be on hand to answer questions during the open house, although they won’t give a formal presentation, according to a press release.
The company, which has a regional headquarters in Westminster and several locations in Northern Colorado, is proposing to build on a 131-acre property that is about half a mile south of U.S. 34, north of Weld County Road 56 and east of the Larimer-Weld county line in the area of the unincorporated community of Kelim.
The operation would include an asphalt plant, ready-mix concrete plant, aggregate-processing facility, recycled-product processing facility and storage for asphalt and fuel, according to the release. It would be accessed by trucks off Larimer County Road 1/Weld County Road 13 and by train on a planned rail spur loop.
The property is adjacent to a neighborhood just off U.S. 34 that features homes that have sold recently in the range of $300,000 to $500,000-plus.
Residents of that neighborhood are organizing to fight the proposal, for which Martin Marietta is seeking a use-by-special-review permit from Weld County.
