Comments on: City must work to ignore those donkeys of delusion

By: Eddie

Eddie — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 21:08:57 +0000

It is foolish thinking to only focus on a baseball stadium as the savior of our downtown blight. A baseball diamond is a rather limited structure…. Some of our bright eyed “leaders ” should instead focus on a more multi-purpose facility such as INFINITY PARK in Glendale. It’s world class and built but a much smaller municipality offering , rugby , soccer, concerts, exercise fields and other public gathering space.

Get Imaginative Colorado Springs, then we can LIVE IT UP !

By: RJF

RJF — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:16:47 +0000

Oh John how could you forget!? We can ALWAYS eat scenery! Any sense of forward thinking in Colorado Springs is oxymoronic. SDS will prove to be one of the biggest boondoggles in Colorado history … building infrastructure for a community no major business would want to relocate to because of the oppressively negative conservative political climate. Take a look for a moment at the progress Pueblo has made in recent years … didn’t see any multi-million dollar grants coming Colorado Springs way as happened with The Riverwalk. Oh well, we can always eat scenery!

By: Andrew Hershberger

Andrew Hershberger — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 05:32:54 +0000

Sometimes one needs to look at a worst case scenario to wake up from denial. Folks up in Denver at the state level are ‘scenario planning’ and so should our local leadership. There are some important centers of gravity in the Pikes Peak Region that are planning for the future. The region needs to rally behind them rather then standing on the sidelines waiting for positive and proactive initiatives to join the dust heap ‘could have beens.’

By: Not Sure That We'll Stay

Not Sure That We'll Stay — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:48:04 +0000

I don’t think it’s unlikely. When I compare Colorado Springs to other towns, like Fort Collins or Austin, Colorado Springs is already in serious decline. Your new business moves to Denver. Your office complexes are package and sold off in huge chunks.

When you listen to the plans for the future of the town, it’s clear the leaders don’t know how the world works. Most of the world doesn’t pray about what to do– they are too busy doing whatever it is. Even religious Chic-Fil-a lives in a city that doesn’t watch thing happen, it makes them so.

Colorado Springs looks to me like a rust belt city with a great backdrop. All the empty retail space, the 30 year old vacant shopping centers… the cars people drive with paint falling off of the hoods.. The thrift stores everywhere.

However it’s soon to not be my problem, so I’ll refrain from any more advise.