Lick your lips and search, perhaps wish, for an In-N-Out Burger location in northern Colorado along the busy Interstate 25 corridor.
Plans are in the early stages — conceptually — for a proposed 3,860-square-foot restaurant in the planned Ladera subdivision, according to planning documents in the town of Timnath.
The owner of the property, Connell LLC, of Fort Collins, is one of several entities listed in conceptual papers filed with the growing city’s planning department.
Connell owns the 240 acre property, where agravel quarry is in the final mining stageswith plans to become a lake after reclamation, and eventually mixed-use development around the lake with housing, entertainment, offices and restaurants, according to development planners.
In-N-Out burger, a popular fast food chain from California, is expanding rapidly in Colorado, and newly opened restaurants have faced long lines at the counters and hours of waiting at driveways. The two first Colorado stores, Colorado Springs and Aurora, opened in April 2020, and the drive-up line in Aurora stretched to a reported 14-hour wait for some.
In April, the first In-N-Out Burger location opened in Denver in the Central Park neighborhood just off Interstate 70. Other Colorado locations include Lakewood, Lone Tree, and Thornton. A restaurant is planned and under development, at 1450 Fall River Drive off US 34, in Loveland. A hearing for the Timnath proposal is not yet available.
“This is just a conceptual plan, not a formal submission,” Kevin Koelbel, a senior planner at Timnath, said in an email. “Concept reviews are high-level conceptual reviews which allows applicants/developers to discuss ideas and potential issues with staff before submitting a formal development application.”
Yet the description of the project design criteria for the Timnath site includes “associated parking” and the typically busy “drive-thru lane”.
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