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With such a diverse range of projects and events under way at Thorp Associates, we've always something new and exciting to report. Click on a Headline below, or scroll down to view all items.

Headlines:
Knowledge Quest Academy Celebrates Groundbreaking - click for more info
Windsor Bank of Choice Celebrates Grand Opening - click for more info
Ehrlich Volkswagen earns Excellence in Community Design Award - click for more info
Thorp Associates Makes Mercury 100 List - click for more info
Thunder Mountain Harley-Davidson Grand Opening - click for more info
Performance Park Pavilion earns Responsible Development Award - click here for more info
Thunder Mountain Harley-Davidson dons Silver Hard Hat - click here for more info
Grand Opening of Thorp Associates in Milliken - click for more info
2004 Calendar Promotion an Overwhelming Success - click for more info







Knowledge Quest Academy Celebrates Groundbreaking
Even though construction was well underway on October 17, 2005, red white and blue balloons filled the crystal blue skies of Milliken, Colorado at the celebration of the ground breaking for the Knowledge Quest Academy Charter School. School staff, representatives of Colorado State Board of Education, board members, Thorp Associates, RB+B, Hall-Irwin Construction Division, and parents all watched as the students clad in yellow construction helmets release the balloons.
Doug Chinn, seen speaking in lower left picture, president of the KQA Board (and Thorp Associates’ Wayne Chinn’s brother) acknowledged the efforts of the design team. 

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Windsor Bank of Choice Celebrates Grand Opening
Thorp Associates would like to congratulate everyone at Bank of Choice for the Grand Opening of their new Windsor, Colorado branch. This successful project was the latest of many collaborations between Thorp Associates and Bank of Choice, including banks in Greeley, Evans, and Fort Collins.

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Pictured is Roger Thorp (left), Principal of Thorp Associates with Darrell McAllister (right), President of Bank of Choice at the well-attended Grand Opening reception.


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Ehrlich VW earns Excellence in Community Design Award
Thorp Associates is proud to be the recipient of an Excellence in Community Design Award for the Architecture, Design and Construction of the Ehrlich Volkswagen Automobile Dealership in Greeley, Colorado. The award, presented by the City of Greeley, gives Honorable Mention to the project for “embracing the spirit of good design and exceeding standards to help create a special sense of place within Greeley”.

Pictured is Roger Thorp (left), Principal of Thorp Associates with Scott Ehrlich (right), President of Ehrlich Motors at the recent awards reception.


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Thorp Associates Makes Mercury 100 List
Thorp Associates has been honored as one of Northern Colorado’s fastest-growing private companies, with its recent placement as #18 on the Northern Colorado Business Report’s Mercury 100 list. This prestigious ranking honors the top 100 Northern Colorado companies on the basis of annual growth revenue. With a dynamic and experienced staff at both our Estes Park and Milliken locations, Thorp Associates continues to attract a wide variety of designing and planning projects within the region and abroad.

In addition to being honored at a reception on May 10th at the Fort Collins Marriott, Thorp Associates was featured in a special publication by the Northern Colorado Business Report.


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Thunder Mountain Harley-Davidson Grand Opening
Thorp Associates would like to congratulate Todd & Shelly Erdmann and everyone at Thunder Mountain Harley-Davidson on the successful completion of their new 56,000 s.f. regional retail and service center. Located at the intersection of I-25 and Crossroads Boulevard between Loveland and Fort Collins, Colorado, this facility is truly a landmark for the region.

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Performance Park earns Responsible Development Award
Thorp Associates’ design of the Performance Park Pavilion was recently cited by the Estes Park Responsible Development Association for exemplary design and development of an environmentally sensitive site. The original property had been donated to the Town of Estes Park as an essentially unusable site, being surrounded on three sides by inaccessible river frontage, and the fourth by a stone cliff. Utilizing the site design expertise of Design Studios West, Thorp Associates accomplished an award-winning design for a unique outdoor performance venue making use of materials relative to earlier EPURA Riverwalk improvements. The resultant development has breathed new life into the western Riverwalk district of Estes Park.

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Thunder Mountain Harley-Davidson earns Silver Hard Hat
Thorp Associates recently received word that its design for the Thunder Mountain Harley-Davidson Dealership in Loveland will receive a Silver Hard Hat Award at the 2004 “Best of Colorado” awards ceremony sponsored by Colorado Construction Magazine, a statewide publication of McGraw-Hill. The award ceremony will also recognize the efforts of R.C. Heath Construction Co. as the project’s design/builder and the owners, Todd and Shelley Erdmann, whose original vision for the project will be fully realized as they celebrate the grand opening of the facility the weekend of September 26 and 26.

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Grand Opening of Thorp Associates in Milliken
In February 2004, Thorp Associates opened its new branch location in Milliken, Colorado. This new office, headed up by Thorp Associates partner, Kelly Deitman, will allow us to better serve the needs of our clients along the Front Range. The town of Milliken is located in the heart the "I-25 Corridor" of Northern Colorado. As the region continues to experience substantial growth and development, Thorp Associates expects to increase in size and anticipates moving into an even larger facility within the year.

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2004 Calendar Promotion an Overwhelming Success

Roger Thorp with Make-A-Wish staff

In an effort to reconnect with clients both old and new, Thorp Associates developed a unique promotion over the 2003 holiday season. A large number of calendars for the 2004 year were produced and sent out to many of our current and former clients. In the background space surrounding five images of our most recent endeavors is a list of project names we have been involved with over our twenty-eight years of existence. We invited our clients to look through the list to try and locate their project name, and after contacting us to confirm it's location on the calendar, we pledged to make a donation in the client's name to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. We are very pleased to report that due to the overwhelmingly positive response to the promotion, our donation total to date is $3,000. We would like to thank all of those who took the time to participate, and in particular, Terri and Tom Barry for making an additional donation.

The expansive list of projects included in the background of the calendar was carefully chosen to exhibit the breadth and scope of our firm's design capabilities. While the list is extensive, it is by no means exhaustive, accounting for approximately one-third of all projects we've designed over the years.


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