Developer, city staff at odds over Broomfield Town Square permits

Developer, city staff at odds over Broomfield Town Square permits

A dispute between developers and city staff over building permits threatens to derail the Broomfield Town Square project, an effort to redevelop the area around a long-shuttered grocery store into a mixed-use business, residential and civic space that’s been planned for the better part of a decade.

Developers fear Broomfield is trying to kill long-planned downtown project

Joe Vostrejs stands on the greenfield where the Broomfield Town Square will be built. (Matt Geiger/BusinessDen) In Broomfield, two developers trying to build a downtown for the bedroom community say the city has thrown them for a loop at the last minute — and the city’s top staffer is to blame. “It just seems like the city manager, under her leadership, is doing her damnedest to throw up roadblocks to this project, and we don’t understand it,” s…