Tag: 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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Perspective: The bad policy behind Colorado’s costly housing
Colorado’s economic competitiveness is slipping, and housing affordability is one of the most important reasons why. Policymakers have more control over this than they might think. A new report from the Common Sense Institute details tens of thousands of dollars in housing-construction costs created not by land or water scarcity, labor costs, materials costs, market…
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Colorado Springs has ‘moderate shortage’ of homes for middle-income earners
Industry experts say affordability is improving; real estate market remains strong but sluggish A notable number of single-family homes available in today’s market are out of reach for middle-income earners in Colorado Springs, a recently released industry report found. Home sales in Colorado Springs remain sluggish even though there’s more inventory on the market compared…
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From Disney to developer: Partnerships bring High Country Haven to life
By Katie Soenke, Pikes Peak Courier A comedy writer and a Special Forces veteran walk into a home remodel. It sounds like the beginning of a joke. Instead, it became the beginning of a neighborhood. Steve Marmel, a longtime television writer and producer, and Patrick Vitagliano, owner of Timberwolf Construction, met through a remodeling project.…
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Updated land plans could add 5,000 homes to Banning Lewis Ranch development
Plans approved Wednesday by the Colorado Springs Planning Commission could add up to 5,000 new homes to the Banning Lewis Ranch development on the city’s east side. The 24,000 acres that make up Banning Lewis Ranch were annexed into Colorado Springs in 1988. The area saw little development until 2018, when the city amended the…
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Pace of apartment construction returning to historical norms in Colorado Springs area
Demand remains strong with record absorption, experts say The pace of apartment construction is returning to historical norms across the greater Colorado Springs area after dramatic swings in recent years, while demand remains strong and residents continue moving into units at a record pace. Between Jan. 1 and June 30, 388 apartment units have been…
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Construction to begin this summer on second phase of apartment, retail complex at Weidner Field
Weidner Apartment Homes is preparing to break ground this summer on the second phase of its Experience at Epicenter apartment and retail complex adjacent to Weidner Field in downtown Colorado Springs. The seven-story, 410-unit mixed-use building will be built on roughly 4.5 acres at 650 S. Sierra Madre St., at the northwest corner of the…
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‘The program’: Caretakers got millions, some homeless were evicted
Editor’s Note: This article is part of a Colorado Watch series that looked into how homeless people were offered housing and “donations” from a church in return for becoming clients of a home health care agency that billed Medicaid millions. Read the other stories here. Barely 5-foot tall on her tip toes, Stephanie Swabacker is a pistol of a…
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‘The program’: Using the homeless to reap Medicaid millions is not new
Editor’s Note: This article is part of a Colorado Watch series that looked into how homeless people were offered housing and “donations” from a church in return for becoming clients of a home health care agency that billed Medicaid millions. Read the other stories here. Federal rules prohibit anyone from giving any Medicare or Medicaid beneficiary any remuneration —…
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‘The program’: Church’s cash ‘donations’ are an anomaly; requests to attend services were ignored
Editor’s Note: This article is part of a Colorado Watch series that looked into how homeless people were offered housing and “donations” from a church in return for becoming clients of a home health care agency that billed Medicaid millions. Read the other stories here. Helping the homeless is at the center of many religious groups’ focus, with outreach…