Sustainability communities are becoming more and more popular these days. Businesses like The Source located in RiNo and Stanley Marketplace in Aurora are popping up everywhere. Each is focused on local businesses and locally sources products. Well, now it's Arvada and Westminster's turn. Local Food Campus (LFC) is starting its campus at the Historic Shoenberg Farms located at 72nd and Sheridan. According to their website, "Local Food Campus is an incredible new partnership created to bring about a strong and sustainable regional and local food hub." The Campus will contain a local foods retail center, student-based educational facilities, processing, local foods company incubator/accelerator, greenhouses, commercial kitchen and event center. Local Foods Retail Center"The Local Foods Campus Retail Center will serve as a year-round indoor Farmers Market-style connection between the rural food producer and the urban food consumer. This Local Foods Campus Retail Center will provide over 900 separate local food products from over 200 local food companies - all within a well-lit, well-organized and professionally managed indoor shopping facility designed to make consistent access to local foods and healthy eating both convenient and affordable." Student Based Educational Facilities"Student-based educational facilities will train students in the growth, processing, management and culinary arts of all things local food. From high school students to graduate level education, the Local Foods Campus will create a hands on experience in state of the art facilities."Processing"State of the Art facilities will meet the highest food quality demands. A refurbished processing facility will be the central hub to create, store, and distribute quality local foods for the Rocky Mountains. Through this facility, we will begin to satisfy the exponentially increasing demand for local food."Local Foods Company Incubator/Accelerator"Bringing together the best and the brightest local foods entrepreneurs. The Campus provides an open environment for those working on the success of local food to share their thoughts, experiences, and successes with others in the industry, creating a stronger collective in the local food space."The LFC is basing their program on the success of others across the nation including in Boston, Massachusetts, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, Chicago, Illinois and Charlotte, South Carolina. Not only will the LFC be providing year around locally sourced food, but also they will be providing jobs and pouring money back into the local community. So, when is LFC going to be up and running? Great question. Right now, the LFC is on hold. They are hoping to garner funds from the Urban Renewal Project the City of Westminster is putting together. It is unsure at this time if the City will dedicate funds to the LFC or not. Read more about their progress on funding here.To get involved with the LFC and provide support, click here.To see homes for sale in the area, click here.As always, if you have questions or want to explore your options in real estate, give us a call!David PersonColorado Homes Connection(720) 854-9501David@ColoradoHomesConnection.com
