Tag: pikeview quarry
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Colorado Springs adds reclaimed land at Pikeview Quarry
Pikeview Quarry had been a growing scar on the mountains overlooking Colorado Springs for more than a century. Now the land is growing trees and will help to expand the city’s portfolio of parks and open spaces. The City Council voted 8-0 Tuesday morning to accept a donation of 100 acres of quarry land into…
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Reclamation of historic Pikeview Quarry complete: ‘A great day for Colorado Springs’
It began small, as some wounds begin ー something like a scratch on Colorado Springs’ northern mountainside. But over 100 years the people below watched it fester, that scratch becoming a scar that would grow and grow along with a population that looked helplessly on, unable to stop the bleeding. But now, finally, healing. Colorado’s…
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New trails, open space plans, quarry reclamation: Colorado Springs parks goals for 2025
What’s on David Deitemeyer’s desk heading into the new year? “My desk is messy,” joked the senior administrator for the city of Colorado Springs’ Trails, Open Space and Parks (TOPS) program. “There’s a lot of great stuff going on this year.” A decision due this month from City Council will be “great” to some and…
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Company ‘thrilled’ by reclamation at Colorado Springs quarry — but ‘not out of the woods yet’
The company in charge of returning a historic mining pit to nature in Colorado Springs’ northwest mountains is celebrating key progress in the yearslong job. Castle Aggregates is “thrilled” by the looks of Pikeview Quarry, said Jerry Schnabel, the company’s president and general manager. The months have seen the scar’s familiar red turn to the…
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‘Critical’ funds come amid excitement, worry around Colorado Springs quarry
Tuesday morning in the hills beyond Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs officials gathered to celebrate a promise of restoration. It was in celebration of a scar to be healed — and money to perhaps accomplish it. A $300,000 grant was announced as “instrumental” in the costly, complex process of Black Canyon Quarry’s pending reclamation. The…
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Opponents appeal master plan for Colorado Springs open space
Following approvals from Colorado Springs’ parks board and the committee overseeing trails and open space spending, the fight continues against a master plan more than a year in the making. Regarding the 108-page document outlining future development and management of an expanded Blodgett Open Space on the city’s northwest side, only one “no” vote came…
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Opponents appeal master plan for Colorado Springs’ Blodgett Open Space
Following approvals from Colorado Springs’ parks board and the committee overseeing trails and open space spending, the fight continues against a master plan more than a year in the making. Regarding the 108-page document outlining future development and management of an expanded Blodgett Open Space on the city’s northwest side, only one “no” vote came…
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‘New phase’ of reclamation celebrated at Colorado Springs’ Pikeview Quarry — but challenges remain
In the foothills of northwest Colorado Springs, along the Pikeview Quarry scar seen from afar over the past century, two men knelt down to plant a young pine. They were David Isbell and Gary Bradley, two among a small crowd that gathered Thursday morning to celebrate what the quarry’s owning company called a “new phase”…
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Plotting Blodgett: Breaking down plan for beloved, expanded open space in Colorado Springs
One recent evening, in an auditorium of almost 100 northwest Colorado Springs neighbors worried or excited about the future of Blodgett Open Space, a presentation ended with a woman rising from her seat. She had a question for the audience. “How many would like Blodgett to stay a nature preserve?” She was met by a…
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Even without pandemic, 2020 was a hectic year in Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As government leaders, health officials, and frontline and essential workers navigated what a “new normal” would look like for Coloradans amid the pandemic, 2020 was nevertheless a hectic year of growth in Colorado. Despite new public health restrictions that limited or halted some operations completely,…