By Lisa Crockett

Progress is slow but sure on the future Walgreens development at the corner of Castle Pines Parkway and Lagae Road. The developer, Minnesota-based Anxon, Inc., had hoped to break ground before the end of 2006, but now plans to begin sometime in April.

Representatives from the developer hosted a second presentation with Castle Pines North (CPN) residents at the Master Association Board meeting on January 18. “The issue we heard loud and clear in September was that everyone liked the architecture of the other businesses in CPN and wanted the architecture of this site to look the same,” said Jeff Fisher of Urban Associates, a development representative. Residents at the meeting were pleased with the new look of the building.

For now, the only confirmed tenant in the four-parcel development is Walgreens. “We are working with various buyers for the other lots,” said Fisher. “We have had interest from a daycare, a dry cleaner, an automotive service business, and various other community retailers.”

The project is expected to be completed in October 2007. For up-to-the minute information on this project, please visit www.cpnhoa.org.