Tag: attainable housing
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Off-site housing manufacturer Red Feather Industries opening new factory, bringing nearly 100 jobs to southern Colorado
A Colorado-based, single- and multi-family modular housing builder is opening a new factory in southern Colorado with the help of the state’s Rural Jump-Start program of incentives, recently announcing plans to bring almost 100 jobs to Huerfano County. Headquartered in Walsenburg, employee-owned Red Feather Industries manufactures wood-based modular housing off-site. In Walsenburg, the company plans…
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Mill Street residents push for protections from hotel, urban renewal
Mary Sprunger-Froese was driven out of the Lowell neighborhood near downtown Colorado Springs when it was redeveloped through an urban renewal plan in the late 1990s. She is now fighting to make sure history doesn’t repeat itself in the Mill Street neighborhood. The Colorado Springs City Council is expected to vote Tuesday on an urban…
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2 urban renewal projects take aim at ‘attainable housing’ in Colorado Springs
The Colorado Springs Urban Renewal Authority has two new urban renewal projects moving forward that would build ‘attainable housing’ in different areas of Colorado Springs. One of the urban renewal plans would support a 120-unit apartment complex on North Weber Street, while the other would cover a new hotel and a small number of housing…
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Controversial Briargate-area apartment project gets green light from City Council
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Springs City Council on Monday ruled a controversial attainable housing project planned to be built in Briargate can move forward despite neighbors’ concerns the development would negatively impact the public health, safety and general welfare of the surrounding area. The board voted 6-1…
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Controversial Briargate-area apartment project gets green light from City Council
The Colorado Springs City Council on Monday ruled a controversial attainable housing project planned to be built in Briargate can move forward despite neighbors’ concerns the development would negatively impact the public health, safety and general welfare of the surrounding area. The board voted 6-1 to uphold the Planning Commission’s Jan. 10 approval of the…
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Pine Creek neighbors appeal controversial Briargate apartments
Pine Creek residents are preparing to take their fight against plans to build hundreds of new apartments in Briargate to the Colorado Springs City Council. Preserve Pine Creek Village, a group of Pine Creek neighbors, on Thursday formally appealed the Planning Commission’s Jan. 10 approval of plans to build the 232-affordable unit Royal Pines Apartments…