An office building and adjacent warehouse that have been home to a Christian publisher may be acquired by the City of Loveland to house its utilities department.
The City Council on Tuesday will consider an ordinance allowing the city to pursue the $12 million purchase of buildings that had been operated by Group Publishing Inc., a 51-year-old provider of curriculum materials for youth and adult Sunday-school and vacation-Bible-school classes that was acquired last October by Colorado Springs-based David C Cook, a nonprofit provider of books, Bibles and other resources for Christian educators.
If passed on first reading Tuesday night, the enabling ordinance will allow appraisals of the more than 89,000-square-foot administration building at 1515 Cascade Ave. and a 33,000-square-foot warehouse at 1615 Cascade Ave., as well as authorizing the city’s Facilities Management and Utilities Enterprise to appropriate the funds needed to purchase the buildings…