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People. Places. Projects.
June 3, 2026
BUILDING CAPACITY FOR WHAT COMES NEXT
What does it really take to support growth? New buildings, active campuses, industrial corridors, housing projects, and downtown milestones are easy to see. The work that makes them possible is often less visible: survey, infrastructure planning, water and wastewater strategy, roadway coordination, due diligence, utility coordination, and the partnerships that help communities move from vision to reality. In other words, before anyone cuts a ribbon, there is usually a lot of modeling, measuring, coordinating, permitting, and revising.
This month, we’re looking at capacity in two fast-growing regions EPS Group, Inc. calls home: Arizona and Colorado. In Buckeye, Arizona, EPS is helping plan the infrastructure backbone for a major industrial growth area. In Greeley, Colorado, our team supported a workforce-focused campus investment designed to connect education with regional industry needs. Across both states, the theme is the same: communities need infrastructure, workforce, leadership, and early decision-making to keep growth moving in the right direction.
What capacity questions are shaping your community right now?
PEOPLE.
Survey leadership across the Mountain West.
Strong projects start with strong technical leadership. This month, EPS celebrated Tharen Helgerson, Survey Project Manager based in the Fort Collins office, for earning his Wyoming Professional Land Surveyor licensure. With more than 25 years of surveying experience and professional licenses in Minnesota, Iowa, Colorado, and now Wyoming, Tharen’s achievement strengthens EPS’s ability to support clients across the Mountain West. As communities and project partners across Wyoming continue to plan for growth, infrastructure, land development, and long-term investment, our team looks forward to supporting survey clients with the same precision, responsiveness, and practical problem-solving that guide our work across the region.
Have a project where early survey insight could help reduce risk? Connect with EPS’s survey team to start with better data, stronger coordination, and fewer surprises down the road.
PLACES.
Arizona Growth Lens: Infrastructure, water, and readiness in the West Valley
Arizona’s growth story continues to be shaped by infrastructure capacity. In fast-growing areas like Buckeye and the West Valley, the questions are not only about where development can happen, but what it will take to support it responsibly. Can existing water systems support early phases? When does new source capacity need to come online? How can wastewater infrastructure be phased to support near-term development without overbuilding too early? What roadway improvements are needed now, and what should be preserved for ultimate conditions? How do floodplain, drainage, and dry utility constraints affect site readiness? These are not abstract planning questions. They affect schedule, cost, entitlement strategy, and long-term project viability.
EPS lens: The earlier infrastructure questions are asked, the more options a project team has. EPS helps clients turn uncertainty into practical planning, from survey and due diligence through civil design, water and wastewater planning, traffic engineering, and utility coordination.
Have a site in Arizona that looks promising on paper? Let’s look at what the infrastructure is telling you before the project gets too far down the road.
Colorado Momentum: Housing, survey, municipal partnerships, and downtown reinvestment
Colorado’s June activity showed the many ways infrastructure and development intersect with community needs. EPS’s Colorado survey team supported Prospect Plaza, a 253-unit student housing development near the Colorado State University campus. On a 4.36-acre site with 415,484 square feet of gross floor area, the project includes student housing, a parking garage, retail space, and café space, supported by more than 900 aggregate piers. EPS surveyors delivered site data and construction staking to help keep the technically demanding project coordinated and moving forward.
In Downtown Fort Collins, steel was topped out at 300 Mountain, marking a major milestone for a complex urban project in the heart of the city. Working within a tight downtown footprint has required careful logistics, coordination, and collaboration with a broad project team.
EPS lens: From student housing and downtown redevelopment to municipal infrastructure support, Colorado communities are asking familiar questions: How do we grow well? How do we coordinate earlier? How do we support housing, mobility, and infrastructure without losing what makes our communities work?
Where is your Colorado project getting stuck: land, infrastructure, approvals, or uncertainty? EPS can help identify constraints early and support a clearer path from opportunity to execution.
PROJECTS.
Buckeye Spectrum entry monument and landscaping
Arizona Spotlight: Buckeye Spectrum | Buckeye, Arizona
Planning the infrastructure backbone for major industrial growth
What does it take to prepare 1,700 acres for long-term industrial growth? In Buckeye, EPS is master planning 1,700 acres of industrial-zoned land northeast of I-10 and Sun Valley Parkway. The team is currently working through civil design for water and wastewater infrastructure to service the area. The project reflects the complex, phased planning needed to support large-scale development. For Phase 1, EPS is leveraging existing water system capacity while planning a new well to support long-term demand.
Wastewater infrastructure is also being phased to delay major treatment facility costs while allowing early sewer installation to move forward. The work also includes grading and drainage support for a CLOMR to revise the existing floodplain, coordination of interim and ultimate roadway networks with the City of Buckeye, traffic engineering, a comprehensive signage plan and entry monumentation, and large-scale dry utility relocation coordination with APS, Cox, Southwest Gas, and AT&T.
Why it matters: As the West Valley continues to grow, industrial development depends on more than available land. Dirt matters, of course, but dirt by itself does not deliver water, move traffic, solve drainage, or coordinate utility relocations. That takes thoughtful planning across infrastructure, utilities, transportation, entitlement strategy, and long-term service capacity.
EPS services: Survey, land development, water and wastewater design and master planning, and traffic engineering.
Is your Arizona site ready for what comes next? EPS helps development teams evaluate infrastructure needs early, coordinate across agencies and utilities, and create a clearer path from land opportunity to project delivery.
OZ Architecture rendering of the Aims Community College Workforce Innovation Center
Colorado Spotlight: Aims Workforce Innovation Center | Greeley, Colorado
Connecting education, workforce, and regional industry needs
How do communities prepare people for the industries shaping their future? In Greeley, EPS provided civil engineering and survey services for the Aims Community College Workforce Innovation Center, a 100,000-square-foot, multi-story academic and workforce training facility. The project represents a $50 million campus investment designed to connect education with regional industry needs. The center includes advanced labs for construction, manufacturing, and technology programs, along with flexible indoor and outdoor learning spaces. It also includes integrated circulation and infrastructure to support future campus growth.
Why it matters: Workforce development is part of the infrastructure conversation. Facilities like this help prepare students and regional workers for the industries shaping Colorado’s future, including construction, manufacturing, technology, and applied trades. The future does not build itself, though it would be convenient if it did.
EPS services: Civil engineering and survey.
What facilities will your community need to support the next generation of workers? EPS supports campus, civic, and community-serving projects with civil engineering and survey services that help connect today’s needs with tomorrow’s growth.
Industry Engagement: What We’re Hearing in the Market
Across recent housing, land development, commercial real estate, healthcare, and community-impact conversations, one theme kept surfacing: growth depends on coordination.
In Arizona, that coordination is showing up in both development conversations and community partnerships. EPS was recognized as a sponsor of the Ladies in Land Inc Phoenix Chapter, where a recent lunch and learn focused on “Amenities That Drive Demand: Aligning Design, Programming, and Resident Expectations.” The discussion reflects a familiar development question in Arizona’s growth markets: how do communities align infrastructure, design, amenities, and resident expectations in ways that create lasting value?
EPS was also recognized among Arizona sponsors supporting the Engineers Without Borders USA Phoenix Professional Chapter and its Fotobi, Ghana project, a volunteer-led effort. The post recognized several Arizona engineering and infrastructure firms, including EPS, as past 2026 event sponsors. This is a good reminder that engineering impact extends beyond project boundaries and that technical communities can play a meaningful role in improving access, resilience, and quality of life.
In Colorado, industry discussions focused on housing attainability, development predictability, entitlement timelines, infrastructure readiness, and the need for more creative housing options. Events including the Housing at a Crossroads launch, the Colorado Real Estate Journal Residential & Commercial Land Development Conference & Expo, and the HBA of Metro Denver Housing Summit emphasized the connection between housing, infrastructure, workforce stability, and long-term community vitality. Healthcare conversations also reinforced the importance of collaboration.
At the spring CAHED Trade Show & Conference and MED Talks: Collaborative Innovations in Health, EPS team members heard from healthcare, design, construction, and operations leaders about the evolving demands of healthcare facilities, including energy requirements, infrastructure investments, water quality standards, compliance, and more integrated delivery.
EPS lens: Whether the conversation is amenities and community design in Arizona, housing and infrastructure in Colorado, or healthcare facilities across the region, the question is similar: how do we make better decisions earlier and coordinate the right partners from the start?
What challenge is showing up first on your projects: infrastructure, cost, approvals, utilities, water, amenities, or coordination? EPS can help project teams move from uncertainty to a more informed path forward.
Service Spotlight
Due diligence: turning uncertainty into clarity
What do you need to know before a land deal becomes a project? Every land deal begins with opportunity, but it also begins with uncertainty.
Zoning requirements, utility availability, access and access constraints, environmental considerations, drainage, infrastructure capacity, and approval timelines can significantly affect project feasibility and cost. Identifying those factors early helps teams make informed decisions and avoid costly surprises later in the development process. Because “we’ll figure it out later” is rarely the budget-friendly option. EPS’s due diligence services help clients evaluate critical site conditions before design begins, providing the information needed to move projects forward with confidence.
Smarter starts. Stronger projects. Fewer surprises.
Have a site under consideration in Arizona or Colorado? Bring EPS in early to evaluate constraints, identify risks, and help turn uncertainty into a practical path forward.
Let’s Build What Comes Next
What are you planning for next: a new development, infrastructure upgrade, municipal project, campus investment, or site acquisition?
EPS Group can help with the infrastructure behind what comes next, from early due diligence and survey through civil engineering, entitlement strategy, construction management, and long-term infrastructure planning.
Because the best time to solve a project challenge is before it becomes the thing everyone is talking about in the next meeting.
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