Tag: neighborhoods
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Bill would allow large apartment projects in single-family neighborhoods | Cronin and Loevy
There is an old joke that goes something like this. “When the state legislature is in session, no person and their property are safe.” That is not a joke in the older, more traditional neighborhoods that surround the downtown regions of Colorado’s major cities. For the past two years, the annual sessions of the Colorado legislature have produced a steady stream of bills that attempt to take control of city planning and zoning functions away from city governments and put…
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COLUMN: Vape shops don’t belong in residential areas
If Benjamin Franklin was right, that it’s a wise person who is at war with his vices and at peace with his neighbors, then the recent proliferation of smoke and vape shops in Colorado is an ominous and incendiary sign of trouble. In our quiet Mountain Shadows neighborhood on the west side of Colorado Springs,…
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GUEST OPINION: Community center is a vital neighborhood resource
By Brian Kates Meadows Park Community Center is a home away from home, a “third place” and has been first place in the lives of generations and thousands upon thousands of people since opening its doors in 1982. That this $775k/year facility (0.17% of $438M 2025 General Fund budget) is scheduled for permanent closure on…
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New Ford Amphitheater in Colorado Springs hears cheers and jeers when it comes to noise
Julie and Ted Driver didn’t attend pop band OneRepublic’s concert Aug. 9 that christened the new 8,000-seat, outdoor Ford Amphitheater on Colorado Springs’ far north side. That doesn’t mean they didn’t hear the music, however. The Drivers live off Roller Coaster Road and Mountain Pine Lane in unincorporated Black Forest, 4.4 miles northeast of the…
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Ford Amphitheater hears cheers and jeers when it comes to noise
Julie and Ted Driver didn’t attend pop band OneRepublic’s concert Aug. 9 that christened the new 8,000-seat, outdoor Ford Amphitheater on Colorado Springs’ far north side. That doesn’t mean they didn’t hear the music, however. The Drivers live off Roller Coaster Road and Mountain Pine Lane in unincorporated Black Forest, 4.4 miles northeast of the…
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PHOTOS: Dancing from a distance
Neighbors dance outside their homes Friday night, March 27, 2020, during a city-wide Neighborhood Dance Party. Residents turned up their car radios to local stations playing the same music and danced while abiding by the state’s stay-at-home order to fight the COVID-19 virus. We’d like to see your photos showing our community spirit and even some levity…
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Buyer’s market demands new strategies
For years, home sellers were told to make sure their properties were in good condition before they stuck a for-sale sign in their front lawn. These days, if sellers worry only about paint, carpet and repairs, they might as well keep the for-sale sign in the garage. There’s a new dynamic in today’s housing market…
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Down but not out
For-sale signs summed up the state of the Pikes Peak region’s housing market last year: “Price reduced” was the simple message several signs carried. A national recession, sagging consumer confidence, thousands of area job losses and record numbers of local foreclosures combined to drive down single-family home prices in two-thirds of Colorado Springs and El…
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Widespread distress
Kings Deer, in northern El Paso County and east of Monument, has some of the Pikes Peak region’s nicest homes. Stratmoor Valley, just beyond Colorado Springs’ south edge and east of Fort Carson, has some of the area’s cheapest housing. Last year, however, Kings Deer and Stratmoor Valley had something in common: Foreclosures and short…
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Default deluge
Foreclosures and short sales weren’t the only reasons home prices fell in dozens of Colorado Springs-area neighborhoods last year. But they were the biggest reasons, several local real estate experts say. In The Gazette’s fourth annual analysis of El Paso County Assessor’s Office records and home prices in the area, 52 of the county’s 80…