Author: RICH LADEN and BREANNA JENT The Gazette
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Developer plans retail showroom for building supply companies near Monument
A Denver developer plans to launch construction this year on a retail showroom project in northern El Paso County that will house multiple tenants in the building supply industry and whose products would serve both business customers and consumers. The Rock Commerce Center, as it will be called, is planned for 14 acres along Monument…
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New apartment project planned for busy 8th Street corridor on Colorado Springs’ west side
A familiar retail building along Eighth Street on the city’s west side would be torn down to make way for an apartment complex as developers continue to eye Colorado Springs for more multifamily housing. Blackburn Communities of Oxford, Miss., the multifamily development arm of the Blackburn Group, has submitted a proposal to city government officials…
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Colorado Springs home sales slump again in March, report shows
Colorado Springs-area home sales fell again last month as spiking mortgage rates continued to keep homes out of reach for some buyers. Sales totaled 941 in March, a 12.5% decline from the same month last year, a new Pikes Peak Association of Realtors market trends report shows. Except for a slight bump in February, year-over-year…
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Denver developer plans retail showroom for building supply companies north of Colorado Springs
A Denver developer plans to launch construction this year on a retail showroom project in northern El Paso County that will house multiple tenants in the building supply industry and whose products would serve both business customers and consumers. The Rock Commerce Center, as it will be called, is planned for 14 acres along Monument…
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Longtime Minneapolis real estate company to bring industrial buildings to Colorado Springs’ east side
A more than century-old, Minneapolis-based real estate company has proposed construction of a pair of industrial buildings that would total nearly 300,000 square feet, which would mark one of the first significant projects in the 260-acre Reagan Ranch residential and commercial development on Colorado Springs’ east side. United Properties, which also has offices in Denver…
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Popular downtown Colorado Springs restaurant to reopen; two others eye their return
One popular downtown Colorado Springs restaurant reopens this weekend after a nearly four-month remodeling, but another that closed because of a freak accident remains at least a few weeks away from a return and a third that was forced to shutter after a fire won’t make a comeback until possibly next year. Urban Egg, which…
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Downtown Colorado Springs bucks regional and national trends, is thriving after COVID-19, report says
Office, retail and housing activity remain strong, according to the latest State of Downtown report
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YMCA redevelopment project still on hold in downtown Colorado Springs
The YMCA of the Pikes Peak Region’s redevelopment of its downtown Colorado Springs property remains on hold, more than four years after it was announced with great fanfare and embraced by city and community leaders as a high-profile part of the area’s ongoing public and private renaissance. The organization hasn’t scrapped the makeover of its…
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Colorado Springs sales tax collections jump, continuing string of ups and downs
Colorado Springs’ sales tax collections, which have ridden a roller coaster over the past few months, were on the upswing to start 2024, according to a report released this week by the city’s Finance Department. Revenues from the city tax on TVs, appliances, cars and other consumer and business purchases totaled $17.2 million in February,…
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Mission BBQ targets second Colorado Springs location at east side retail center
Mission BBQ, the Maryland-based, military-themed eatery that expanded to Colorado Springs last year, plans to add a second location on the city’s east side. The fast-casual chain will construct a single-story, 4,620-square-foot stand-alone building in the parking lot of the Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse at the First & Main Town Center, northeast of Powers Boulevard…