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Miguelâs original location has been open 14 years on Cheyenne Mountain Boulevard. This expansion (with a spacious southeast-facing patio unfortunately overlooking the highway and Martin Drake) opened 10 months ago, according to a friendly employee named Arturo. I learn heâs from Guadalajara as weâre talking tequilas at the bar while I await my to-go order. We agree on both preferring a neat top-shelf tequila pour vs. a margarita, and he talks me into an $11
Don Julio añejo.
Iâm glad he did once I sip it back home, finding a complex vegetal nose, smooth heat on the tip of the tongue and a lingering fadeout to faint oak-influenced vanilla-toffee notes. It pairs spectacularly with my $13
Key segments of Colorado Springs’ real estate market and the city’s downtown remain relatively healthy in the face of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, yet will continue to confront challenges in 2021, according to four industry experts.
Their mostly positive outlook for the local market was presented Thursday during the 30th annual real estate and economic forecast hosted by the Colorado Springs chapter of the Institute of Real Estate Management, an industry group. The event typically takes place in front of a few hundred people during a morning breakfast; because of the pandemic, however, this year’s forecast was held virtually via Zoom.
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GE Gas Turbines Will Replace Coal at Colorado Plant
The plan to retire the last coal-fired units at a power plant in Colorado has moved a step closer to completion, with the announcement that Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) has chosen General Electric (GE) technology to keep the plant operating at least temporarily as a gas-fired facility.
GE on Feb. 10 announced that six of the company’s advanced 34-MW LM2500XPRESS aeroderivative gas turbine packages will be deployed at the 208-MW Martin Drake plant in downtown Colorado Springs, one of the last operating urban coal-fired plants in the U.S. It’s the first time GE will install the technology in North America.