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Council approves Lutheran Legacy Campus urban renewal plan to push redevelopment of former hospital site
Summary
Wheat Ridge council unanimously approved Resolution 46-2025 to designate the former Lutheran Hospital campus as an urban renewal area, finding blight and authorizing tax-increment financing to support redevelopment into housing, retail and civic uses.
WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. — The Wheat Ridge City Council voted unanimously Monday to adopt the Lutheran Legacy Campus Urban Renewal Plan, designating roughly 112 acres that include the former Lutheran Hospital campus as blighted and eligible for urban renewal and tax-increment financing (TIF).
Resolution 46-2025 authorizes Renewal Wheat Ridge to pursue TIF and related improvements on the site, which consultant analysis described as a large infill opportunity with over 50 acres of vacant land and a recently vacated hospital building.
Sarah Dunmeyer of Economic & Planning Systems presented the conditions survey and plan summary, saying the study…
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