Downtown advocates know that one of the primary ingredients for revitalization is residential development, but apartments are going up everywhere around the city except in the urban core.
Continue reading …The iconic Lookout Mountain in Denver is the latest battleground between developers and neighbors trying to fend them away. The section of the 40-mile Lariat Loop National Scenic Byway winds through hillside subdivisions to tourist attractions such as Boettcher Mansion, Lookout Mountain Nature Center and the nationally acclaimed Buffalo Bill Museum & Grave. The scenic [...]
Continue reading …The planned 2.4-million-square foot Copper Ridge retail center sprung back to life last week when Gary Erickson’s Northgate Properties announced that it had lured one of retail’s biggest fish — Bass Pro Shops.
Continue reading …Alleys around the world have bad reputations to live down. And those in Colorado Springs are no exception. The Downtown Partnership aims to transform Colorado Springs’ alleys, two of them to start, from smelly, dirty places where the homeless sleep and garbage stacks up to comfortable pathways from parking to downtown filled with art and [...]
Continue reading …Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers opened the first of four new restaurants in the Colorado Springs area today. The restaurant chain opened in Monument and franchisee Kyle Gerstner said he plans to begin construction on another along the Powers Boulevard corridor in June. Freddy’s opened its first store in 2002 in Wichita, Kan. The Monument [...]
Continue reading …Nor’Wood Development Group has partnered with Kansas-based RHW Management to build a new hotel at its First and Main Town Center. The companies announced plans today to build a new 82-room Holiday Inn Express adjacent to the Powers Boulevard shopping center that’s home to Cinemark Theater, Dick’s Sporting Goods, J.C. Penny, Target and several restaurants. [...]
Continue reading …This is the first in a three-part series about downtown Colorado Springs.
This first story explores ideas about downtown rejuvenation. The following two stories will examine barriers to downtown growth and opportunities for overcoming them.
As Goodwill prepares to move the majority of its services to its new campus on West Garden of the Gods Road, it will host a community meeting to get public responses about what should be done with the space it will vacate in Old Colorado City. Goodwill will host a public neighborhood meeting at its [...]
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