To highlight the city’s role in the upcoming USA Pro Cycling Challenge, downtown Colorado Springs will soon be flying 30 colorful banners that depict a racing cyclist. The Downtown Partnership will also feature a mural of a racer on the west side of the Alamo building. The Springs will host the prologue stage of the [...]
Continue reading …After 25 years in business, Mrs. Fields cookie shop in downtown Colorado Springs at the corner of Tejon and Kiowa streets is going out of business. Its last day will be Monday. Owner Bill Ross said the downtown business climate just isn’t what it used to be. “The reason we’re leaving is the same reason [...]
Continue reading …Colorado Springs police have not yet identified the man who jumped to his death from a downtown building today. That information will likely be released tomorrow, police said. Police received 911 calls about 10 a.m. from multiple witnesses who said they saw a man either fall or jump from the 12-story Alamo Building at 102 S. [...]
Continue reading …In 2005, the city of Colorado Springs, the Colorado Springs Urban Renewal Authority and the John Q. Hammons company signed a statement of intent to build and operate a 250-room Embassy Suites hotel near America the Beautiful Park. As part of the deal, the city’s Parking Enterprise agreed to pony up $3.1 million to build [...]
Continue reading …Shortly after the Colorado Springs was platted by Gen. William Palmer, our city’s original developer, he began to improve the then-desolate town site. Contemporary photographs show a barren stretch of plain, its monotony relieved only by a few wooden shacks. Palmer, so the story goes, sent boys down to the banks of Monument Creek, where [...]
Continue reading …Downtown Colorado Springs this week will see the return of a veteran business owner and a new look for a landmark. Home Lighting at 624 N. Tejon St. will close for a day and re-open as At Home, a lighting and home products center. The change comes as former owner, Jim Walters, who continued to work [...]
Continue reading …Much as they do today, businesses, banks, theaters and restaurants lined Tejon Street a century ago. Looking north in 1908, a visitor would have seen the steel frame of the new Exchange National Bank rising on the corner of Pikes Peak and Tejon, flanked by the Crystal Theater, The Hub, the land office of J.H. [...]
Continue reading …Here’s my nightmare. Someone comes up with a superb idea that will benefit Colorado Springs in myriad ways, and I write a column endorsing it. People read the column. Some love the idea, some hate it — opposition is the price paid for every meaningful innovation in history — and through the perspicacity of others, [...]
Continue reading …Colorado Springs Police say they will increase their presence downtown this New Year’s Eve. In a release today, the Colorado Springs Police Department warned that specific downtown areas have been dangerous lately, especially at the night club 13 Pure, 217 E. Pikes Peak Ave., where incidents including stabbing, gun shots and physical assault have occurred [...]
Continue reading …Frugal food lovers looking to recreate the dishes they salivate over at local fine eateries and cooking-show fans looking to test out their favorite chef’s recipes can rejoice — not one, but two culinary spice stores have opened downtown. Extraordinary Ingredients Gourmet Pantry owner Kerri Olivier unlocked her doors at 612 N. Tejon St. on [...]
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