Artspace - Building Better Communities Through The Arts 

The arts-friendly city of Loveland is home to America’s largest outdoor sculpture show, which annually attracts more than 50,000 visitors to this northern Colorado city. Loveland is also home to Art Castings of Colorado, one of the nation’s premier bronze sculpture foundries. The first municipality in the state to enact an Art in Public Places program in 1985, Loveland received the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts in 2008.

No wonder, then, that when civic leaders began looking for a way to repurpose the historic Loveland Feed & Grain Building on the edge of downtown, they quickly turned to the arts – and to Artspace. The result was an ambitious plan for a new arts campus that will incorporate both the Feed & Grain structure and a new live/work project next door.

Phase 1, the residential building, will contain 30 units of affordable live/work housing for artists and their families plus a large ground-floor gallery/community room. Now in predevelopment, it is scheduled to go into construction in 2013 and into operation one year later. In Phase 2, the Feed & Grain Building will be renovated and transformed into artist studios and a home for arts organizations and creative businesses. A large outdoor community space will tie the two structures together.