Loveland-based training company to move to Fort Collins
A Loveland company will move its corporate headquarters and 45 employees to the growing Harmony Technology Park in southeast Fort Collins this June.
Prosci, a business research and training company, has signed a seven-year lease for 20,000 square feet at 5042 Technology Pkwy., a building it will share with Numerica, which moved its headquarters from Loveland to the business park last year.
The company has grown from a sole proprietorship started by Jeff Hiatt in 1994 to 45 employees. It expects to add between 10 and 15 more workers within the next two years, President Allison Seabeck said.
As the company grew at its Loveland location it needed more space and a better image for when it brought clients in, Seabeck said. "We looked across the north Front Range from Longmont to Fort Collins and settled on Harmony Technology Park because it gave us the convenience of the interstate, space for the company to grow and the image we were looking for," she said.
The company brings in about 120 Fortune 500 and global clients per year and now holds its training sessions off-site, Seabeck said. "We wanted a professional-looking environment and a place that shows we are on an equal playing field with the large organizations that we serve," she said.
Harmony Technology Park — with a view of the mountains and an "exterior that matches the inside of what we do at the company" — met its needs, Seabeck said.
MAVDevelopment broke ground on Harmony Technology Park at the corner of Harmony Road and Lady Moon Drive in 2008. That same year the city approved creation of the first property-tax supported metropolitan district that would finance construction of public improvements such as streets, water systems and trails to support the technology park.
Custom Blending, maker of Rodelle vanilla and other spices, moved almost immediately to a new building at the park, but other plans came and went, leaving the nearly 100 acres across from Hewlett-Packard largely undeveloped until last year.
Rodelle, which since moving has changed its name from Custom Blending, doubled its manufacturing space in July and MAVD built a new office building at 5042 Technology Pkwy., to house Numerica and now Prosci, and plans to build a second office building next door.
Brinkman Partners moved its headquarters into a recently completed 30,600-square-foot office building at the corner of Precision and Lady Moon drives.
Brinkman, which leases the technology park for MAVD, occupies the bottom floor; the second floor is available for lease.
The technology park still has roughly 75 acres open for development. Thirteen acres of frontage along Harmony Road is slated for restaurants, office space, retail and a hotel site.
MAVC has submitted preliminary documents to the city of Fort Collins for road and utility improvements needed to create pad-ready sites on those 13 acres bordered by Harmony Road, Lady Mood Drive, Technology Parkway and Timberwood Drive on the south side of the parcel. Timberwood has yet to be designed, according to city documents.
Harmony Technology Park is across Lady Moon Drive from Presidio, another 85 acres owned by Les Kaplan that houses Banner Fort Collins Medical Campus — due to open in May — and the Terra Vida apartments developed by Kaplan.
Harmony Technology Park
• Where: Southeast corner Harmony Road and Lady Moon Drive, Fort Collins
• Size: 105 acres
• Major tenants: Rodelle, Numerica, Prosci, Brinkman Partners
• Expected growth: 1 million square feet of commercial space
• Owner: MAVDevelopment, Ann Arbor, Michigan