Author: RICH LADEN and BREANNA JENT The Gazette

Colorado Springs’ downtown has more to offer than years past: more places to live, shop, eat, play and be entertained thanks to an influx of apartments, stores, restaurants, bars and attractions — such as the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum and the Weidner Field stadium. Downtown supporters and visitors, however, want more. Asked what downtown…

Colorado Springs’ downtown has more to offer than years past: more places to live, shop, eat, play and be entertained thanks to an influx of apartments, stores, restaurants, bars and attractions — such as the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum and the Weidner Field stadium. Downtown supporters and visitors, however, want more. Asked what downtown…

Colorado Springs’ downtown has more to offer than years past: more places to live, shop, eat, play and be entertained thanks to an influx of apartments, stores, restaurants, bars and attractions — such as the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum and the Weidner Field stadium. Downtown supporters and visitors, however, want more. Asked what downtown…

Colorado Springs and El Paso County aren’t building enough homes that typical buyers can afford, while smaller houses and other types of housing options are sorely needed to make housing more attainable for many people, including young adults whose population will jump over the next few years and seniors who want to downsize. Those are…

VASA Fitness is flexing its muscles again in Colorado Springs. The fitness chain, based in Colorado and Utah, has launched a remodeling of a former Gold’s Gym at 7655 N. Union Blvd., northeast of Union and Briargate boulevards in the north-side Rampart Village Center, where it’s targeting a summer opening for what will be its…

The Broadmoor remains on a streak that no other hotel has matched. The Forbes Travel Guide on Wednesday gave its top score of five stars to the resort on Colorado Springs’ southwest side for the 65th consecutive year as part of its 2025 ratings of hotels, restaurants, spas and cruise ships. It’s the longest stretch…

An India-based space surveillance and intelligence company, which specializes in creating sophisticated systems to track space activity and debris, will expand to Colorado Springs and hire 61 people who will become among the latest additions to the thriving aerospace and defense industries in the state and the Pikes Peak region. Digantara, a 7-year-old startup that…

Colorado Springs-area home sales saw a slight increase in the first month of the year, though the local housing market generally remains slow as mortgage rates that are at roughly 20-year highs continue to keep buyers on the sidelines, some industry experts say. “We’re still very much in kind of the doldrums here,” said Rick…

Another coffee chain with roots in the Pacific Northwest is expanding to Colorado Springs. Black Rock Coffee Bar, founded in Portland, Ore., and with headquarters in Vancouver, Wash., and Scottsdale, Ariz., says it’s targeting a mid-February opening at 13590 Roller Coaster Road in the new King Soopers-anchored Marketplace at Flying Horse shopping center, in the…