Prominently located in the Town of Windsor and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the four-story Windsor Mill was constructed in 1899 and used as a flour and feed mill until 1990. The building is a fine architectural representation of the progression from wooden mill structures to brick, tile, and steel materials in the field of agriculture.
The Windsor Mill was placed on the 2002 Colorado’s Most Endangered Places List since funding was badly needed for work to be completed. The building was struck by a tornado in 2008 after a previous owner had invested over $500,000 to stabilize and reuse the mill. CPI had participated in that effort. The building was then sold in 2015, and new ownership had invested over $3 million in an ambitious rehabilitation and adaptive re-use project when the building was nearly destroyed by an early morning fire in August 2017. The cause of the fire was determined to be arson. The Town of Windsor had previously offered up to $3 million in incentives to rehabilitate the Mill.
The owners have since rebuilt the historic mill as a mixed-use project with a nod to its historic form, with some preservation components. This moved CPI to update its status as a save, as a partial rehabilitation project.