A proposed development near downtown Castle Rock includes a recreation center, a hotel and hundreds of homes.
The 31-acre site is just west of Interstate 25 on Prairie Hawk Drive. For 40 years, it was home to the Acme Brickworks plant. Now, developers want to turn it into Castle Rock’s newest district and highlight that history by using repurposed Acme bricks in the development, calling it “The Brickyard.”
“We’ve taken some of the cues from the old brick factory, kind of repurposing that facility feel, and then create a great hall for everybody to gather, and a really nice square, where we can have live music, ice skating in the winter,” said Tony De Simone, founder and CEO of Confluence Companies…