Colorado Springs Urban Renewal Authority Board
“At the formal City Council meeting on Tuesday, April 23, City Council confirmed Mayor Steve Bach’s selections to serve five-year terms on the Colorado Springs Urban Renewal Authority Board (CSURA). The new board members are:…
Chemical reactions in downtown Colorado Springs
“In 2009, the city told Cottonwood (now known as Cottonwood Center for the Arts) to move to make way for a hotel project. At the time, the clean-up cost for the site was estimated at…
Larimer County officials: Property tax loss would hurt county, other taxing districts
“Under the proposed Foothills Mall finance plan, Fort Collins will defer collection of half the sales taxes from the redeveloped retail center, but only for three years. That difference has county officials crying foul. “The…
Foothills Mall owners, city reach tentative deal on incentives
“City Manager Darin Atteberry and owners of Foothills Mall have reached a tentative financing agreement clearing most major hurdles for redevelopment of the nearly 40-year-old shopping center in the heart of Midtown Fort Collins. Atteberry…
Apartment project at Fort Trumbull: Will it happen?
“Careful readers might remember Mayor Finizio’s apology for the eminent domain sins of the New London Development Corp., which he issued in February 2012, back when he announced a name change and new management for…
New Woodridge mayor emphasizes ‘common sense’
“Among the issues currently being discussed in Woodridge are the new budget and using eminent domain to acquire a strip mall. The village decided last year it wanted to buy a 4.8-acre property on the…
City officials project urban renewal authority funding will be scarce for future base area projects
“City officials told the Steamboat Springs City Council on Tuesday night that funding for base area improvements from the urban renewal authority will be scarce for at least the next three to four years. #Finance…
Dillard’s chides Longmont for ‘costly, lengthy and uncertain’ eminent domain action
“The department store chain has spent months talking with NewMark Merrill Mountain States, the mall’s owners, about what it would take to either include Dillard’s in a redeveloped Twin Peaks mall or to buy the…
Letter: Old neighborhood didn’t have choice
“This event brings to mind a smaller but similar happening. In the early 1960s the Yale Avenue Urban Renewal Project came into being. A long-standing neighborhood was in the way of needed expansion space for…
Kindelspire: How in the heck did we get here?
“Who else was surprised when we learned Thursday that Dillard’s and NewMark Merrill Mountain States couldn’t hash out a deal for Dillard’s to be a part of the redeveloped Twin Peaks Mall? I sure was….