FORT COLLINS - The potential loss of jobs is a cause for worry for Fort Collins in case Woodward Inc. decides to pull up stakes. On the flip side, its real estate holdings could be snapped up relatively quickly.

That's because lot of that real estate is industrial space and, as it happens, there's not much of that type of space available in Fort Collins or Loveland, where the engines-control maker also has some of its operations.

The company's Fort Collins holdings include six buildings on its 39-acre campus on Drake Road near Lemay Avenue.

According to Larimer County public record, the buildings there encompass nearly 227,180 square feet, at an assessed value of $2.2 million.

In Loveland, records indicate that Woodward's holdings include another 110,131 square feet in three buildings. Assessed value for this property is $1.45 million, including 37 acres of land.
Woodward employs about 1,200 people in the region.

Just what would happen with all of these buildings and land is up for speculation at this point. It should be noted that Woodward hasn't made a decision about whether to move at all. It has only indicated an interest in expanding its