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Chase Beck has fielded dozens of calls like this in the past few months.
“They say ‘I just had the floor taken out from under me. I’ve been living here for years. I need to move out in 30 days and I’ve got nowhere to go. Can you help?’” Beck says.
The waiting list at his family’s All Valley Storage in Frisco is long, same as their Breckenridge facility.
“I feel their pain and I really do try to prioritize the locals, especially if they are teachers or essential workers, you know,” Beck says. “I have five public school teachers who are renting units from me because they live in their vehicle and their storage unit is their closet. I don’t want to chase them out of the county any more than they are already being chased out.”
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Carbondale’s town trustees gave the thumbs-up Tuesday night to the new Carbondale Center Place mixed-use development near the intersection of Colorado Highway 133 and Main Street.
The plan calls for 76 residential rental units, a three-story expansion of the existing Sopris Self-Storage business and 10,000 square feet of commercial/retail space.
It was approved on a 6-1 vote of the town Board of Trustees following a public hearing at the board’s regular Tuesday meeting.
The redevelopment is to replace the existing 30,000-square-foot Sopris Shopping Center at the corner of Highway 133 and Colorado Avenue and the adjacent self-storage facility to the east.
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Several Carbondale businesses are scrambling to relocate and others are just plain calling it quits following plans for one of the town’s oldest strip malls to be redeveloped.
The proposed new Carbondale Center Place was given preliminary approval Jan. 14 by the town’s Planning & Zoning Commission, and is slated to go before the Board of Trustees for final consideration on Feb. 9.
It would replace the existing 57-year-old Sopris Shopping Center at the corner of Colorado Highway 133 and Colorado Avenue with a mix of 10,000 square feet of ground-level commercial space, 76 residential units and a new 68,000 square-foot self-storage facility where the existing Sopris Self Storage is now located, immediately east of the plaza.