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January 9, 2014

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Indoor shooting range opens Facility won’t offer gun store, says owner By Ashley Reimers

areimers@coloradocommunitymedia.com Bryan Stear always wanted to open an indoor shooting range. He says it’s actually been his personal endeavor since he was an engineering student at University of Colorado. Now, not only will he have met his goal, but Stear will also provide indoor shooting opportunities to the north metro are with the opening of Shoot Indoors in Broomfield. “It was my love for the shooting industry that pushed me to open an indoor shooting range,” he said. “Plus I realized there were no close ranges in the north metro area, so I decided to change that.” Shoot Indoors, at 1 Park St., has been open for a few weeks, but the official grand opening will be Jan. 11. During the opening, Stear is offering 50 lifetime memberships for $1,000 each as well as monthly

membership promotions. He said he’s excited to welcome the community to his new range, a place he hopes someday to be referred to as the “neighborhood shooting range.” “I’m hoping people are excited about the range, and to have a place down the road from where they live,” he said. “I’ve already had some great feedback from people and that they are excited about it, so that that’s what really keeps me going.” Shoot Indoors offers 10 open lanes, that can fit two to three people, and a stateof-the-art air ventilation system. A large customer area with tables and chairs is available to people waiting to shoot and a separate entrance and exit was constructed for people entering and leaving the shooting range. “We don’t do any retail. I deliberately didn’t want to become a gun store,” Stear said. “I don’t want to compete with local gun stores, I want to work with them by recommending people to those stores to purchase a gun. It would also be great if the stores recommended my range for people to shoot at with their newly purchased

Shoot Indoors, a new indoor shooting range in Broomfield, will serve the north metro area, including Westminster, offering 10 lanes and air ventilation. The grand opening will be Jan. 11. Photo by Ashley Reimers gun.” Stear’s also providing free gun safety classes for the community 6-7 p.m. Monday through Thursdays taught by certified

and professional staff, gun rentals and wheelchair accessibility at Shoot Indoors. For more information, visit http://goshootindoors.com/.

‘Great addition to neighborhood’

Rendering of the future Whole Foods in the Bradburn subdivision in Westminster. Courtesy graphic

Whole Foods coming to BradBurn Village By Ashley Reimers

areimers@coloradocommunitymedia.com By the end of this year, residents in the Bradburn Village subdivision will be welcoming a Whole Foods Market to their neighborhood. Construction is already under way for the 35,000-square-foot building, which

will be located on the southeast corner of Vrain Street and West 120th Avenue in Westminster. The new store will be a relocation of the current Whole Foods at 92nd Avenue and Sheridan Boulevard. “Whole Foods is a great addition to the neighborhood, which was first developed in 2000,” said Roger Pecsok with Continuum Partners, LLC, the Bradburn developer.

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“This market is the last remaining parcel of land available for retail or commercial development in the project.” Mark Falcone with Continuum, said Whole Foods is the perfect capstone to a project which set a new bar for walkable, mixed use suburban development in the region. “Bradburn has fulfilled every possible expectation we had for the neighborhood when we began planning it in 2000,” he said. “Residents do walk to get coffee, take their kids to the schools or go meet one of their neighbors for refreshments on their front porch.” Pecsok said feedback from residents is already coming in and is positive regarding Whole Foods. He said he had only heard excitement from residents about having a grocery store at their fingertips. Westminster city manager Brent McFall is also happy with the new addition. “We are very pleased Whole Foods Mar-

ket has opted to bring the city of Westminster an expanded and modernized offering,” he said. “We worked closely with Continuum to insure Whole Foods Market will be able to continue to serve the citizens of Westminster for another 20 years”. According to www.wholefoodsmarket. com, the goal of a Whole Foods Market is to sell the highest quality products that also offer high value for customers. Will Paradise, President of Whole Foods Market’s Rocky Mountain Region, said each store is designed to reflect the unique character of the surrounding community, and this particular Whole Foods will be different than any other store built to date. “The market will be one that local residents can truly call their own,” he said. Although the market is last commercial/retail addition to the subdivision, Pecsok said there is still space for residential development with as many as 90 new townhomes to be built.


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