Curbside Cuisine just signed a lease on 225 N. Nevada Ave. The lease provides a permanent downtown location for food trucks, which serve as mobile kitchens and restaurants. Colorado Springs Urban Intervention, best known for reducing traffic to one lane each direction to experiment with creating more pedestrian space on Pikes Peak Avenue last fall, [...]
Continue reading …Colorado Springs Utilities board members decided yesterday to nix a contract to study selling or leasing its electric power generation. The board unanimously decided not to move forward with a $500,000 study, suggested in 2012 by Mayor Steve Bach in a letter to the board. Board chairman Keith King signaled the direction the board was [...]
Continue reading …The Garden of the Gods campground has been transformed into an RV Resort. RVC Outdoor Destinations, which purchased the campground in 2012, has completed about $800,000 worth of upgrades to the property. Garden of the Gods RV Resort has 173 RV sites, including six new executive pull-thru sites, and 29 upgraded lodging units. In addition [...]
Continue reading …The Pikes Peak Workforce Center is hosting a spring job fair tomorrow, April 18. The job fair is set up to help “adults who are looking for a job or for a better job,” according to the center. Some of the featured employers include Engineering Systems Inc., Advantage Sales & Marketing, The Mining Exchange Wyndham [...]
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Local real estate agents are preparing for National Open House weekend April 19-20. Agents all over town participate in the event, which is supported by the Pikes Peak Association of Realtors, every year. Houses listed for sale open up to the public and people have a chance to walk through without making an appointment. The [...]
Continue reading …The University Village shopping center on North Nevada Avenue offers a number of places to shop and places to eat, but today it added a different service – a place to get testosterone injections. The Low T Center is part of a national chain with 25 locations, one of which is opening in Las Vegas [...]
Continue reading …The Small Business Development Center, which is housed at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, will relocate to the El Paso County Citizens Service Center, alongside the Pikes Peak Workforce Center. The SBDC plans to be in its new office by April26. It will be on the first floor of the center, 1675 Garden of [...]
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Matt Barrett has been named CEO of the Better Business Bureau of Southern Colorado. He replaces Carol Odell, the Bureau’s current CEO of 14 years, who will retire May 3. Barrett was most recently the chief operating officer at Graham Advertising in Colorado Springs where he is credited with leading the organization through a transitional [...]
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Colorado Springs City Council voted Tuesday to expand the solar gardens program at Colorado Springs Utilities. CSU will pay a performance-based incentive of 16 cents per kilowatt hour generated by up to 3 megawatts of solar panels installed in gardens during the first year of the expanded program. The pilot program allowed for 2 megawatts [...]
Continue reading …Industry leaders believe first quarter apartment vacancy increases and average rent decreases are seasonal. Apartment vacancy in buildings with 50 or more units increased slightly to 5.8 percent in the first quarter of 2013. While higher than the fourth quarter of 2012, it was still lower than the average 7 percent vacancy Apartment Insights reported [...]
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