http://csbj.com/2012/11/09/university-village-default-hurts-only-bond-investors/ Fri, 24 May 2013 15:39:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://csbj.com/2012/11/09/university-village-default-hurts-only-bond-investors/comment-page-1/#comment-73578 Jeremy Clagett Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:16:09 +0000 http://csbj.com/?p=60030#comment-73578 With it’s proximity to UCCS, this (re)development should have been a mixed-use neighborhood all along. That it isn’t living up to financial expectations should come as no surprise as the plan was fundamentally flawed from the start. It’s truly unfortunate that the Springs wasn’t able to capitalize on this great opportunity. Potential (economic, spatial, social, environmental, etc) will be met only when the Springs developers and local government shy away from sprawl and return to the forms of traditional city building that made our country great to begin with. ‘Old urbanism’, i.e. mixed use neighborhoods are the way forward, not shopping centers.

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