I-76, rail lines keep town on the move
LOCHBUIE — With an interstate highway and rail lines that connect Denver with Chicago and the Northeast in its backyard, it’s only natural that Lochbuie would be well-positioned to tap into the benefits of the nation’s transportation network.
BNSF Railway Co. continues to plan for its 2,700-acre intermodal facility and logistics park. The project, on the east side of Interstate 76, is being annexed into Lochbuie and could eventually accommodate 20 million square feet of industrial/distribution space. Annexation battles between Lochbuie and Hudson have largely been resolved.
The facility would enable transfer of freight between trucks and railroad cars.
Lochbuie’s 2025 budget anticipates the growth that’s coming in both commercial and residential development. The town has budgeted revenue of $24.6 million, and substantial investments in infrastructure are being made this year.
Lochbuie’s 2025 budget anticipates the growth that’s coming in both commercial and residential development. The town has budgeted revenue of $24.6 million, and substantial investments in infrastructure are being made this year.”
Incorporated in 1974 in both Weld and Adams counties, Lochbuie’s history goes back to Gordon McClain, who owned land next to what then was called Interstate 80 South and in 1961 developed a 12-acre mobile home subdivision named Spacious Living but nicknamed Space City. To be able to improve their water and sewer systems, residents in 1974 voted to incorporate.
They named the new town Lochbuie because McClain’s grandparents’ ancestral home was Lochbuie, on the Isle of Mull in Scotland. In Scottish-Gaelic, the spelling would be Locha Buidhe, meaning Lake of the Fair-haired Clan.
I-80S was renamed Interstate 76 in July 1976.
Today the town has more than 100 acres of recently zoned and annexed prime retail and industrial property available for development as well as some 60 acres of municipal use and recreational land in the planning stages of development.