Downtown Colorado Springs land owner bows out of City for Champions deliberation
“Chuck Murphy, the only Colorado Springs representative on the state’s Economic Development Commission, will recuse himself Wednesday when city officials present their City for Champions proposal at a public hearing in Denver.
Murphy, who owns a construction company and is a downtown land owner, said questions have risen over his possible conflict of interest in the projects. Two of the four projects in the proposal would be built in downtown Colorado Springs.
“I don’t want any cloud over their decision,” Murphy said Tuesday.
Murphy is one of nine members of the commission, which will review the city’s application to have $125.1 million in state sales tax dollars returned to the city over 30 years. The money would be used to build four tourism projects: a downtown multi-use stadium, a downtown U.S. Olympic museum, an Air Force Academy visitors center and a University of Colorado at Colorado Springs medical sports medicine complex.”
Mendoza, Monica. THe Gazette 4 December 2013.