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Holiday season comes with parking discounts in downtown Colorado Springs, other nearby shopping centers

By November 25, 2024 | updated 2 years ago

Chelsea Gondeck (left) with Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs shares coupon books, stickers, shopping bags, and other downtown shopping information with downtown shoppers on Small Business Saturday on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2021.
Chelsea Gondeck, left, with Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs shares coupon books, stickers, shopping bags and other downtown shopping information with shoppers on Small Business Saturday in 2021.
Jerilee Bennett, The Gazette file

Shoppers in downtown Colorado Springs, Old Colorado City and Manitou Springs won’t have to worry about dipping into their holiday cash to pay for parking on select days this season.

Officials in Colorado Springs and Manitou said their special parking promotions are intended to draw visitors to support local businesses during the biggest shopping period of the year.

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The day after holiday sales kick off on Black Friday, downtown Colorado Springs hosts Small Business Saturday all day on Nov. 30 in one square mile of downtown. Several shops and restaurants will offer sales and specials that day.

Additionally, all Colorado Springs city-owned parking garages, lots and meters will be free Thursday to Saturday downtown and in Old Colorado City.

“We want to encourage residents and visitors alike to visit downtown Colorado Springs and Old Colorado City to support our wide variety of small businesses during this holiday week,” Public Works Director Richard Mulledy, who also oversees the city’s parking enterprise, said in a news release Monday.

Colorado Springs officials worked with stakeholders in Old Colorado City and the Downtown Partnership to offer the parking promotions, Mulledy added.

The city will place hoods over free meters in downtown, including on Tejon Street from Cache La Poudre to Rio Grande streets and the associated side streets within one block of Tejon.

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Kayla Collins shops at Piramide Clothing Co. in Manitou Springs on Small Business Saturday in November 2019

Parking in downtown Colorado Springs, Old Colorado City and Manitou Springs will be free on select days this holiday shopping season, including on Small Business Day, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024. In this file photo from Small Business Saturday in 2019, Kayla Collins shops at Piramide Clothing Co. in Manitou Springs.



Parker Seibold, The Gazette//


City-owned parking garages at Nevada and Colorado avenues, Nevada Avenue and Kiowa Street, and Cascade Avenue and Bijou Street; all parking meters in Old Colorado City; and surface lots on West Cucharras Street, West Pikes Peak Avenue and the alley lot off of West Colorado Avenue will be free.

Later this season, metered parking in Colorado Springs and Old Colorado City will be free on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day, according to the city’s parking enterprise website.

More than 90% of downtown’s 170-plus shops, galleries, restaurants and personal services storefronts are locally owned and operated.

“There’s a real joy to having facetime with the people who have poured their heart and soul — and life — into bringing you an independent business and hand-selected products,” Downtown Partnership spokeswoman Carrie Simison said in a separate Monday news release. “Each item you choose to gift comes with a story when you purchase it from a local shop owner.”

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Colorado Springs shoppers can pick up a downtown holiday coupon book at Mountain Chalet outdoor sports store on Nevada Avenue and the Terra Verde boutique on Tejon Street.

Small Business Saturday festivities also include Christmas carols and the return of the Yobel and The Look Up Gallery as a holiday pop-up shop at 517 S. Cascade Ave., Suite E. It runs Saturday through Jan. 15, ahead of a planned grand reopening in the spring.

For more information, visit downtowncs.com/event/small-business-saturday.

Old Colorado City’s Christmas Stroll also runs Saturday from noon to 8 p.m. at Bancroft Park and along Colorado Avenue. Shops will offer special offers and sales, photo opportunities with Santa Claus, carols and skits from Dickens Carolers, live reindeer, entertainment and costumed characters.

A full schedule and details about special offers are online, shopoldcoloradocity.com/events/christmas-stroll.

Downtown Colorado Springs goes glitzy with enhancement initiative ahead of the holidays

The free holiday season parking days are in addition to recent changes in downtown Colorado Springs and Old Colorado City parking hours and fees. On Nov. 15, the city implemented free Sunday parking in three city-owned garages and nine lots through the end of the calendar year. Officials also permanently shortened meter hours: from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and from 1 to 8 p.m. on Sundays.

For more information about Colorado Springs parking, visit coloradosprings.gov/parking.

Manitou Springs and the city’s Metropolitan Parking District are offering free two-hour parking from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and from Dec. 14-25.

Parking is free after 6 p.m.

The promotion applies to the city’s Hiawatha (10 Old Man’s Trail) and Canon (135 Canon Ave.) lots, the metro district’s Wichita (708 Manitou Ave.) and Smischny (1134 Manitou Ave.) lots, and on-street parking areas in Manitou Springs.

Visitors can use the parking kiosks to select their free two-hour parking period.

For more information, including real-time parking availability, visit manitouspringsco.gov/567/Parking-Locations.

Breeanna Jent

Reporter

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