Three different restaurants and bars can be viewed from the second floor of C.O.A.T.I, an upscale food court on S. Tejon St. Luchals, a soul food seafood restaurant; Anju-Korean Street Eats; and Rival Bar-Curious Cocktails (left to right) were serving a bustling crowd on Sunday, March 7, 2021. (Photo by Jerilee Bennett, The Gazette)
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Rachel Latsios and her son, Socrates Latsios pick out Christmas cookie cutters at Sparrow Hawk Gourmet Cookware on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. Sparrow Hawk is one of the downtown businesses that has been resilient during COVID, partly because while people have been stuck at home they’ve been getting into cooking. (Photo by Jerilee Bennett, The Gazette)
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Downtown Colorado Springs: More businesses open this year than close
21 new street level businesses open downtown in 2020
DOWNTOWN COLORADO SPRINGS SEEING A SUCCESS STORY AS THE NUMBER OF NEW BUSINESSES OPENING UP. HAS OUTPACED THOSE, THAT HAVE CLOSED.
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COLORADO SPRINGS â The pandemic has been hard on small businesses struggling to survive, but in Downtown Colorado Springs, the number of businesses opening this year outpaced those that closed.
According to the Downtown Partnership, they have welcomed 21 new street level businesses this year, and expect another nine to open in the first half of 2021. A record number of new businesses opened downtown at the street level in 2019, and we ve exceeded that number in 2020, said the Economic Development Strategist with the Downtown Partnership, Alex Armani-Munn.