Following an originally denied proposal, dozens of site modifications and other turbulence, a riverfront development is now on its way to being completed in Silverthorne. 

Silverthorne Town Council applauded TG Developments at an Aug. 27 meeting for changing course following the April 2024 rejection of a proposal to bring 69 units on a lot next to the developer’s Apres Shores project. They granted approval on a final site plan for the 49-unit development at 740 Colorado Highway 9, which moves the project closer to breaking ground.

The project previously received community pushback over worries it would negatively impact a locally treasured piece of land called the Annie Road Parcel. Immediate neighbors also raised concerns over a traffic study that said the residents living in the development would be expected to generate 1,032 vehicle-trips on the average weekday. The neighbors also shared concerns about the lack of screening to prevent headlights from beaming into people’s homes that face the complex.

Now, developers resolved a bulk of the issues brought to them and have support from both the council and the Silverthorne Planning Commission.

“I definitely like seeing what we have now (compared to) what some other things we’ve seen,” council member Amy Manka said. “So, I think you’ve totally moved in the right direction.”

Neighbors also changed their tune at the Aug. 27 meeting after they said the developer began working with them to address their concerns.

Blue River Parkway resident Doug Pflugh spoke at the meeting and said he and his neighbors are now confident they will reach a solution for screening with TG Developments that everyone is happy with.

“We’re certainly looking to do the best we can and put our best foot forward,” Mark Strempke with TG Developments said.

The Colorado Department of Transportation plans to make the three-way traffic signal at an intersection near Annie Road and Colorado Highway 9 into a four-way intersection.

TG Developments swapped the 49-unit development’s name to Apres Shores II recently, solidifying it as a continuation of the next door development, Apres Shores.

The development will have three, three-story buildings on a near 2-acre site. There will be around 110 parking spots. Aside from 49 condos and parking, Apres Shores II will also bring a new stretch of the public recreation path near the Blue River.

The Apres Shores II proposal and its predecessor are far from the first time the parcel on Colorado Highway 9 garnered community-wide attention.

First plotted as two parcels of land instead of one, the site slated to house the development served as a mobile home park for almost 50 year before a developer bought the site in 2021.

Residents brought their worries regarding the sale to local officials, with some saying their homes were too old to realistically move off the site and have them stay intact. Representatives of the developer, the Aidan Group, said the original owner of the property notified residents in June 2019 that they were planning to sell the land for development. Advocates of the homeowners said even with a heads up, it would have been difficult for residents to raise enough funds to buy the land so they could continue living on it.

Those developers received approval on a site plan for a three-story, 49-unit condominium building in 2022. Then, in 2023, TG Developments bought the property.