Tag: downtown colorado springs
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The YMCA’s downtown pool has been frequently closed for a month; was it about the union?
The pool at the downtown Colorado Springs YMCA has been frequently closed for nearly a month amid layoffs and accusations that the Y was undermining the facility’s workers union, an allegation that the organization denies. The closures have disrupted swim classes and irritated club members who have been going to the pool for years. The…
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Poor Richard’s Downtown prepares to unveil rebuilt, reimagined kids’ play area
Poor Richard’s Downtown is commemorating the return of a familiar landmark this month. On Sept. 26, the business will host a free community event to celebrate the reopening of its beloved indoor kids’ play area, newly remodeled and refreshed in downtown Colorado Springs. Located next to Little Richard’s Toy Store and at Rico’s Café, the…
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Easy’s Records and Vintage brings dedicated record shop to downtown Colorado Springs
Downtown Colorado Springs will soon be home to a full-sized record shop. Easy’s Records and Vintage, founded by Ryan Fowler and Erica Dunford, will have a soft opening Friday, with a grand opening set for Sept. 10. The store, at 327 N. Tejon St., formerly operated out of CO.A.T.I. downtown under the name Vintage…
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Jax Fish House & Oyster Bar closes in downtown Colorado Springs
Jax Fish House & Oyster Bar, which sprang into the downtown Colorado Springs restaurant scene in early 2020, closed its doors permanently this week. Its last day of operations was Sunday, its Boulder-based ownership group, Big Red F Restaurant Group, said by email on Wednesday. A written notice on the restaurant’s front doors at 11…
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Popular downtown Colorado Springs boutique reopening with refreshed look, feel
Terra Verde Boutique will offer a more intimate, curated shopping experience, owners say Terra Verde Boutique is reopening in downtown Colorado Springs this Labor Day weekend with a refreshed look and a more intimate, curated boutique shopping experience — but with the same heart and soul customers have come to know and love. “It’s still…
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Stoney’s Bar & Grill opening first Colorado Springs location downtown on Tuesday
Downtown Colorado Springs is welcoming another sports bar to its lineup. Denver-based, Colorado-themed sports and music bar Stoney’s Bar & Grill will open the doors of its first Springs location at 11 a.m. Tuesday at 118 N. Tejon St. inside the historic DeGraff building. Stoney’s takes over the space that formerly housed Oskar Blues Grill…
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5 arrested after crowd interferes with officers responding to bar fight: Colorado Springs police
Several people were arrested on Saturday afternoon after a crowd interfered with officers trying to break up a fight outside a downtown bar, according to Colorado Springs police. The incident took place at about 1:40 a.m. when officers with CSPD’s Downtown Area Response Team responded to a disturbance outside a bar on Tejon Street and…
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Colorado Springs’ tallest, most prominent buildings fall into foreclosure
Editor’s note: This article has been updated to clarify that The Antlers hotel has not fallen into foreclosure. The Wells Fargo Tower and FirstBank buildings, the two tallest and most prominent in Colorado Springs, located at the Palmer Center downtown, have fallen into foreclosure. Several other business suite properties, accessed via either building or the…
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Little was really known about China Jim, whose elegant decor items decorated early North End mansions.
When people decorated their homes along Colorado Springs’ North End “Millionaires Row” of the 1880s and early 1900s, the coveted Chinese and Japanese porcelain, cloisonné, silk, ivory, screens, sculptures and Japanese chochin lamps came from one shop in the new city. The owner was known in history accounts as China Jim, possible real name Leu…
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Colorado Springs police, firefighters respond to downtown structure fire early Monday
Police and firefighters responded to a structure fire in downtown Colorado Springs early Monday, law enforcement officials said. At about 2:30 a.m., police dispatch received a call about a disturbance and possible fire in the 300 block of East Costilla Street. Responding officers saw a commercial building that was partially on fire, police said. Wahsatch…