Author: RICH LADEN and BREANNA JENT The Gazette
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Mysterious tombstone found on Colorado Springs’ west side
Now here’s something you don’t find lying around every day: A tombstone. Colorado Springs police say hikers or property owners discovered an engraved tombstone on the site of the Gold Hill Mesa residential development, southeast of U.S. 24 and 21st Street on the city’s west side. The tombstone was found about 1 p.m. Thursday near…
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Homebuilding jumps last month in Colorado Springs
Homebuilders stayed busy last month in the Pikes Peak region. The pace of home construction in Colorado Springs and surrounding El Paso County rose again in September, the eighth straight monthly increase on a year-over-year basis, according to a report released Thursday from the Pikes Peak Regional Building Department. The report showed: – Single-family home…
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Wal-Mart expands online grocery service to Colorado Springs
Wal-Mart is making it easier for residents of the Pikes Peak region to shop for groceries in their pajamas – from their homes, that is. The world’s largest retailer on Tuesday added Colorado Springs to its list of cities where customers can order groceries online or from mobile devices, and pick them up at participating…
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Aging Colorado Springs apartment complexes still in demand on the part of buyers
Fine wine and cheese get better with age. Apartment buildings? Maybe not so much. But as millennials and empty nesters embrace apartment living, and rents rise to record levels, even decades-old apartment complexes are in demand. At least five Colorado Springs-area apartment complexes built from the 1960s to the 1980s have sold in recent weeks,…
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Layoffs likely at Western Forge tool manufacturing plant in Colorado Springs
Western Forge, a Colorado Springs manufacturer of hand tools for half a century, anticipates it will lay off about 150 workers over seven months, roughly half the employees at its northwest side plant, the company says in a notice it filed with the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. A final decision on whether layoffs…
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Suthers wants to study whether a downtown Colorado Springs sports and event center could be privately funded
Note: Come back to gazettedev.gazette.com later Tuesday to watch “City Chat,” which is our extended monthy interview with Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers. Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers said Monday he’s launching a feasibility study to determine if a downtown sports and event center could be funded with private money – an attempt to quell…
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Colorado Springs sales tax revenues jumped by more than 10 percent in August
Colorado Springs sales tax collections rose in August by their biggest percentage increase in almost a year, buoyed by strong spending by consumers, businesses and tourists, according to a report released Monday by the city’s Finance Department. Sales tax revenues totaled $12.5 million last month or 10.4 percent higher than in August 2014, the report…
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Discount retailer Sierra Trading Post opening Colorado Springs store in October
Sierra Trading Post, which began selling clothing, footwear and outdoor items through catalogs in 1986 and later via its website, has shipped plenty of merchandise to Colorado Springs-area customers over the years. So when the retailer was looking to open one of its few bricks-and-mortar stores, the Springs was a logical choice. “Because we’ve been…
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Independent Records & Video still rocking after 37 years, adds new Colorado Springs store
The retail graveyard is filled with headstones that bear the names of music and entertainment chains who’ve met their demise: Circuit City. Blockbuster Video. Media Play. Borders Books & Music. But since brothers Orville and Lewis Lambert launched Independent Records & Video 37 years ago, the Colorado Springs-based chain has done more than survive. It…
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Fewer Colorado Springs homeowners upside down on their mortgages, report shows
Rising property values, an improved economy and fewer foreclosures are putting many Colorado Springs-area residents in a better financial position when it comes to owning their homes, according to a new report this week by CoreLogic, a California-based housing data firm. During the second quarter of this year, 5,726 – or 3.7 percent – of…