As part of the expansion, he also assembled a new development, design, management and construction team. New players on the development, which will have an estimated 1,200 condominium and rental units, as well as 600,000 sf to 800,000 sf of retail space, include:

* The Denver office of Los Angeles-based Lowe Enterprises, which will be responsible for the development. Wiens says Lowe will take the project, which he considers the "gateway to Broomfield," to the next level, with national contacts and expertise.

* Klipp, a multi-disciplinary studio practice, has been selected as the project architect.

* Taylor Kohrs, is the general contractor. It has experience in retail, corporate office, multifamily, educational, municipal, bio-tech, high-tech, site development and tenant finish projects.

* Trammell Crow Co. broker Pat McHenry will provide retail leasing. McHenry is experienced with every type of tenant from big boxes to inline, boutique tenants for a town center.

* Norris Dullea was chosen as the land planning and landscaping specialist.

Arista will form a community, complete with a Main Street with the look and feel of Boulder's Pearl Street and Denver's 16th Street Mall. Retail shops and plaza areas will line the sidewalks of Main Street, with three floors of urban-style residences above. The core area of Main Street could include as many as 1,000 residences.

The surrounding area will include mini-mansions, lofts, row houses, courtyard residences and apartments that will be built around a 10-acre lake and park. The project also will include jogging trails and bike paths.

Arista has been described as an "Urban Transit Village" given its close proximity to a new Regional Transportation District's multi-modal facility planned for construction along US 36, also called the Boulder Turnpike. The RTD facility will initially include a Park-n-Ride coupled with a major local bus transfer station for bus commuters. A bus rapid transit station is planned within the center median of the Boulder Turnpike, where buses will load and unload passengers without exiting the highway, thus significantly reducing commute times. A pedestrian bridge will connect the transfer station with the bus terminal, and the Main Street of Arista.