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Development for Greeley\u2019s Catalyst project surged forward on Wednesday, following many months of legal setbacks, as Mayor John Gates and Water Valley CEO Martin Lind broke ground at the project site.<\/p>\n
\u201cWest Greeley is rapidly growing and expanding, and with Catalyst and Cascadia, we are committed to ensuring that growth is intentional, balanced and reflects the needs of our community,\u201d Gates said.\u00a0\u201cThis groundbreaking sends a clear message: Greeley is ready to compete not just locally but on a regional and national stage.\u201d<\/p>\n
Receiving council approval in late April, the Catalyst project is an entertainment district development that will include a new luxury hotel, a water park and a hockey arena that will be the new home of the Colorado Eagles minor league hockey team. Since its approval, the city has secured $115 million in funding for predevelopment and has recently agreed to primary terms with the ownership of the Eagles, positioning the team as the primary revenue generator for the project.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re doing so much more than breaking ground,\u201d Lind said. \u201cWe\u2019re breaking stereotypes. We\u2019re breaking molds that everybody thought Greeley was going to be, and nobody has a clue what Greeley\u2019s going to be today now.\u201d<\/p>\n The groundbreaking marks the start of the project\u2019s horizontal development phase, which City Manager Raymond Lee said will be the backbone for everything being built in Catalyst. This phase involves the construction of roads, utilities and systems to accommodate the massive amount of water that will be flowing into Catalyst.<\/p>\n The project requires about 235 acre-feet of water, representing about 1% of Greeley\u2019s annual supply, according to Lee. That amounts to the annual indoor and outdoor use of anywhere from 470 to 940 homes, according to state water usage estimates.<\/p>\n A key part of this phase of the project includes the city\u2019s planned mobility hub to mitigate and alleviate traffic impacts. The hub will bring transit, parking, biking and pedestrian access into one connected system. Lee also said the city has been in discussions with the Colorado Department of Transportation and Weld County to make long-term improvements to U.S. Highway 34.<\/p>\n \u201cThis means a family can take a bus to an Eagles game, employees can bike or drive to work, and visitors from across northern Colorado can arrive without gridlock becoming a barrier,\u201d Lee said. \u201cBut the hope isn\u2019t just about convenience, it\u2019s about preparing for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n City staff will next focus on accelerating the predevelopment work, which is already 30% complete. The city is also working to create food and beverage retail opportunities for the district, which is expected to get a new name in the next several months.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.greeleytribune.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Development for Greeley\u2019s Catalyst project surged forward on Wednesday, following many months of legal setbacks, as Mayor John Gates and Water Valley CEO Martin Lind broke ground at the project site. \u201cWest Greeley is rapidly growing and expanding, and with Catalyst and Cascadia, we are committed to ensuring that growth is intentional, balanced and reflects […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2047482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[379733,23803,327938,308548,379734,308544,22764,21738,22048,327678],"class_list":["post-2047481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-cascadia","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-news","tag-front-range","tag-greeley","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-weld-county"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Greeley-breaks-ground-on-Catalyst-entertainment-district.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2047481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2047482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2047481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2047481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2047481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}