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MILLIKEN - Greeley-based Hall-Irwin Corp. and landowner-developers Bob and Ron Ehrlich may be setting down starting blocks for a fast-track scheme that could more than double the size of Milliken over the next 15 years.
Two golf courses - a revamped Mad Russian Golf Course and a second course to be constructed south of town - represent the latest Hall-Irwin-Ehrlich collaboration and the first stages of what could become a major Milliken expansion. Ron Ehrlich described the project as "a totally planned community with an emphasis on quality of life and recreation."
"They're basically building another town," said Milliken town administrator J.R. Schnelzer of potential development plans for the 2,200-acre plot.
The land, located between Colorado Highway 60 and the St. Vrain river, south and southeast of Milliken's current center of town, has been owned by the Ehrlichs for more than 30 years.
Initial proposals for its development have provided for as many as 8,000 to 10,000 new residential homes being built over the next decade, reported Hall-Irwin marketing director Melissa Jensen.
Schnelzer said: "They would have commercial zones, industrial zones, residential and recreational facilities and school facilities, and to do that it could take 15 years - it could take 30 years. What's unique about this situation...