2025 Market Facts VRP - Flipbook - Page 62
PROFILE
54 | ECO NO MI C PRO FI L E & MA R K ET FACT S 2025
8,599
POPULATION
3.69
SQUARE MILES
2,952
HOUSEHOLDS
$88,548
MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD
INCOME
FOR SALE
COURTESY TOWN OF LOCHBUIE
An aerial view of Lochbuie.
LOCHBUIE
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 wellpositioned 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.
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.
OPEN
TAX
$479,800
MEDIAN HOME
SALE PRICE
21
NO. OF BUSINESSES
7.9% (Weld County)
8.75% (Adams County)
CITY, COUNTY,
STATE SALES TAX
16%
BACHELOR’S DEGREE
OR HIGHER
ONLINE RESOURCES
Town of Lochbuie
www.lochbuie.org
Jamie Jeffery, mayor
jjeffery@lochbuie.org
A.J. Euckert, town administrator
ajeuckert@lochbuie.org
Paula Mehle, director of economic development
pmehle@lochbuie.org
Southeast Weld County Chamber of Commerce
southeastweldchamber.com
Upstate Colorado Economic Development
www.upstatecolorado.org
Rich Werner, president & CEO
rwerner@upstatecolorado.org
