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London-based ContourGlobal Ltd., a 20-year-old independent power producer based in London, has acquired a solar-energy portfolio that includes Platte River Power Authority’s Black Hollow Solar array in Severance.

Moe’s Original BBQ in Old Town Fort Collins will close Feb. 8, rebrand as Schneider’s Schnitzel Service and open in late March or early April.

Fort Collins economic-development officials confirmed to BizWest this week that HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ) is relocating into a building at 3405 S. Timberline Road that had been home to marketing firm Madwire.

The city’s Planning and Zoning Commission will decide Feb. 5 whether to approve a plan for a five-story market-rate apartment building that would house up to 785 Colorado State University students — but even if that panel rejects it, CSU could go ahead with the project anyway.

The Loveland Planning Commission will consider its second development proposal for the city’s eastern edge in five days on Monday when it considers the 122-acre Schmer Farm annexation and zoning application.

— A plan facing a public hearing Wednesday before the Loveland Planning Commission would add up to 2,277 housing units in a 150-acre parcel of the Centerra South development in east Loveland.

Colorado’s unemployment rate of 4.4% was up in December, a significant increase compared with prior months and three-tenths of a percentage point higher than the national average.

The makeup and responsibilities of the Park Hospital District’s governing board are likely to change if its partnership with UCHealth becomes official, the district said this week in a news release.

Insurance brokerage firm AssuredPartners of Colorado will relocate its Fort Collins office, probably around March 1.

Fort Collins city planners will get a first look next week at a Berthoud-based design and planning firm’s proposal to build a multi-phased commercial and residential development near the southwest corner of Interstate 25 and Colorado Highway 392.