The Downtown Review Board voted unanimously today to postpone the hearing on an application for a conditional use permit to expand downtown bar Gasoline Alley. The proposal to expand has become controversial because downtown business owners and residents say there are already too many downtown bars, bringing noise and crowds. Vince Lindon, an attorney representing [...] [...]
Sam Guadagnoli, who oversees a dynasty of downtown nightclubs, wants to expand one of his bars, Gasoline Alley at 28 N. Tejon St., into the vacant storefront next door. Several neighboring residents and businesses have complained, saying downtown doesn’t need any more bars that bring noise and trash. Others, however, say the expansion is a good [...] [...]
City planners will decide May 16 whether downtown bar and club owners Sam and Kathy Guadagnoli will be allowed to expand their Gasoline Alley nightclub ... [...]
Phantom Canyon Brewing Company, at the corner of Pikes Peak and Cascade avenues, will begin construction next month on a two-story addition and outdoor patio on the north side of its building. [...]
Tinta de Toro started selling pastries and baked goods from a kiosk in the Plaza of the Rockies building downtown in March. The location has been good for the little bakery. Company owner Angela Valencia has been impressed with how swiftly her business has grown since she started there. She works at the kiosk on [...] [...]
Hyacinth’s Boutique and Spa is preparing to move into vacant space on the struggling block of Bijou Street between Tejon Street and Cascade Avenue. The block endured a hard winter during which time two restaurant closed, a photography shop moved out and no leases were signed. Claudine Malcolm-Telley plans to open her business at 24 E. [...] [...]
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. [...]
Pikes Peak Chocolate and Ice Cream in Manitou Springs opened its second shop earlier this month in downtown Colorado Springs. Owner, Laura Thomason, opened the first store five years ago. “She was looking to open another location,” said Rose Rozell, the store manager at Colorado Springs location. “With Manitou being so small, she didn’t want [...] [...]
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 [...] [...]
More than 100 people showed up to Mayor Steve Bach’s town hall meeting at the Penrose Library Wednesday to talk about how to revitalize downtown. Ideas included creating an Olympics museum, building a Sky Sox stadium, adding high-speed rail, offering more housing options and improving access from Interstate 25. Bach used the opportunity to reiterate [...] [...]
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