People walk past the 35-foot tall, 65-foot diameter “Epicenter” sculpture as they enter the new Weidner Field Friday night, April 23, 2021. The $4.5 million sculpture at the entrance to the soccer stadium was reveal to an invited crowd during a tour of the new facility. The Switchbacks play their first match at the stadium Saturday in a preseason game against Orange County. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock)
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Downtown Partnership releases 2021 State of Downtown report
Erin Chapman
and last updated 2021-04-29 00:34:03-04
COLORADO SPRINGS â The odds were against most businesses in 2020. It was just a real sad time, a sad time in world history, said Perry Sanders, Owner of the Mining Exchange and Antlers Hotel.
Despite the pandemic, retailers in downtown Colorado Springs made it through.
The Downtown Partnership released its annual State of Downtown report last week which showed some decline, but a lot of progress.
According to the report, in 2020 there were 21 new store fronts in downtown, including Clay Venues. We opened this kind of mid-pandemic, we were open last year and had a couple events, called them COVID events, said Becky Nuttall, Owner of Clay Venues.
Stop right there: Johnny Depp in City of Lies
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They told him to get a burner phone, to cover the camera on his computer – and to watch his back. It was 2015 and Brad Furman’s efforts to bring to the screen the story of the police investigation into the killings of rappers Tupac Shakur and Christopher “Biggie” Wallace, aka the Notorious BIG, was leading the director down some dark avenues.
Out of the blue, an old colleague connected to the Los Angeles Police Department had reached out, advising that Furman proceed cautiously. Powerful people in LA didn’t want the truth about Tupac and Biggie seeing light of day. “I already knew I was going to be banging up against the police in making this movie and that’s something I had to accept in service of the truth and justice,” Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer, The Infiltrator) would tell the Daily Beast. “The threat was real since day one and I decided back then I couldn’t let anything bully me, or this stor
Downtown Colorado Springs hasnât seen the commercial investment newer sections of the city have grown used to, to include the northern boundaries of the city. Helen Robinson
Experts say the commercial real estate market in Colorado Springs is poised for continued growth in 2021 â even as the area recovers from the pandemic-related economic shutdowns of last year.
Real estate analytics company Costar reported that the vacancy rate for commercial properties in Colorado Springs hit 8.84 percent in the fourth quarter of 2020, with a high of roughly 450,000 square feet sitting empty after more than a dozen Downtown businesses closed or looked to cut overhead costs as their employees shifted to remote work.
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