Tag: construction
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Update: Fountain Creek stabilization underway, public meeting moved online
The Fountain Creek Watershed District has moved their public meeting on bank stabilization online. The district asks attendees log-in by 5:50 p.m. tonight at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86124461814. South of Colorado Springs, Fountain Creek has cut into deeply into the sandy soil, leaving a soaring bank about 50 feet high, so unstable an adjacent road has been closed…
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Water main to be installed on Marksheffel Road, traffic impacts
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save More than 18,000 feet of water main to be installed on Marksheffel Road, causing traffic impacts and delays between Peterson Space Force Base’s East Gate and Drennan Road starting Monday. Colorado Springs Utilities is spearheading the project, which hopes to improve water service reliability and…
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Water main to be installed on Marksheffel Road, traffic impacts
More than 18,000 feet of water main to be installed on Marksheffel Road, causing traffic impacts and delays between Peterson Space Force Base’s East Gate and Drennan Road starting Monday. Colorado Springs Utilities is spearheading the project, which hopes to improve water service reliability and water system redundancy. Traffic impacts will begin on Monday with…
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Nightly closures of portions of South Academy Blvd. start Monday
A portion of South Academy Boulevard will close overnight beginning Monday to continue work on the bridge deck overlay as part of the Military Access, Mobility & Safety Improvement Project. According to from the Colorado Department of Transportation, beginning Monday night, portions of east and westbound South Academy Boulevard. under Interstate 25 as part of…
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Showtime? Ford Amphitheater officials say new Colorado Springs music venue is ready for next week’s debut
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save With less than two weeks until pop band One Republic takes the stage Aug. 9 at the 8,000-seat Ford Amphitheater that’s under construction on Colorado Springs’ north side, the outdoor music venue isn’t quite ready for its first show. But it will be, its developer…
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Showtime? Ford Amphitheater officials say new Colorado Springs music venue is ready for next week’s debut
With less than two weeks until pop band One Republic takes the stage Aug. 9 at the 8,000-seat Ford Amphitheater that’s under construction on Colorado Springs’ north side, the outdoor music venue isn’t quite ready for its first show. But it will be, its developer insists. “Oh yeah, no question about that,” said JW Roth,…
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Colorado Springs Senior Center rubble cleared away ahead of rebuild
The jaws of an excavator loaded the remains of the Colorado Springs Senior Center into a dumpster last week, clearing the site south of the Patty Jewett Golf Course. The new $15 million senior center on North Hancock Avenue could start taking shape in July with crews aiming to open the new building in August…
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Ongoing CDOT construction project to close I-25 south of Colorado Springs
Drivers will see a full closure of Interstate 25 soon as part of a multi-phase improvement project. The Colorado Department of Transportation said that crews will be implementing a lane switch on the interstate between the Santa Fe Avenue and Mesa Ridge Parkway, with accompanying closures to include the full roadway on June 20. Lane…
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Colorado Springs home construction jumps in May as buyers shake off high mortgage rates
Colorado Springs-area homebuilding and prices on the resale side of the local housing market both jumped in May — trends that indicate, in part, that some on-the-fence buyers no longer are waiting for mortgage rates to fall and are taking the plunge on a home. Permits pulled for the construction of single-family, detached homes totaled…
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Colorado Springs apartment rents slumped again in the first quarter, new report shows
Colorado Springs apartment rents fell again in the first quarter and the area’s vacancy rate remained high, more signs that the local multifamily market is overbuilt, a new report suggests. And, expect those trends of softer rents and higher vacancies to continue unless the pace of absorption, or apartment occupancy, ramps up significantly, one of…