Author: By Rich Laden [email protected]

An 8,000-seat outdoor amphitheater planned for northern Colorado Springs is slated to get two major additions: a $35 million, year-round restaurant and event center that would host weddings, corporate meetings and other gatherings and more on-site parking to reduce the need for concert-goers to use satellite lots. Notes Live, the Springs-based entertainment company that’s proposed The…

An upscale sushi restaurant will debut this weekend in downtown Colorado Springs — the latest concept from a restaurateur who’s also brought Mexican fare and pizza to the city’s central business district. Sushi Row will open at 5 p.m. Saturday at 316 N. Tejon St. in the former YMCA office building and is part of a…

The Colorado Springs-area housing market remained in a funk last month as home sales, prices and construction fell again, two industry reports show. In April, sales of Springs-area single-family and patio homes totaled 1,090, a nearly 27% drop from the same month last year, according to a Pikes Peak Association of Realtors’ market trends report…

Colorado Springs is getting another new neighbor from Denver. Mexican restaurant My Neighbor Félix will expand to the Promenade Shops at Briargate, east of Voyager and Briargate parkways on the Springs’ north side, and has targeted a mid-June opening for what will be its fourth restaurant. Operated by Denver-based hospitality group Lotus Concepts Management, My…

Apartments around the country are getting smaller — but not in Colorado Springs, where they’re bucking the trend and growing in size. A recent study of the nation’s 100 largest cities by RentCafe, an online rental service, shows that apartments in 2022 averaged 887 square feet in size, a decline of 54 square feet over the…

The dollar value of new apartments, hotels, restaurants and other investments being made in downtown Colorado Springs continued to grow last year — albeit at a slower clip after some developers hit the pause button because of rising interest rates and economic uncertainties. The Downtown Partnership, the area’s leading advocacy group, released its eighth annual State of…

Colorado Springs-area home prices, sales and construction tanked again last month as a housing slowdown that began in the second half of last year amid a spike in mortgage rates has continued in early 2023, two new industry reports show. The median price of homes that were sold in February dropped by 5.4% to $440,000 when…

One thing hasn’t changed for The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs: its recognition as one of the world’s finest hotels. But a change could be coming — a possible makeover or even the end of its signature Penrose Room restaurant. The Forbes Travel Guide gave The Broadmoor its top, five-star award this week as part of…

At times, 2022 was as bumpy as a popcorn ceiling for some Pikes Peak region homebuilders and commercial contractors. Local housing tanked in the second half of last year after higher mortgage rates priced many buyers out of the market. As a result, the pace of homebuilding in the last six months of 2022 skidded…

A new 8,000-seat, outdoor music and entertainment amphitheater in Colorado Springs will host its first concert in summer 2024 after the controversial project received near-unanimous City Council approval early Wednesday following six hours of often passionate debate. The Sunset, as the amphitheater will be called, will be built against a scenic backdrop of Pikes Peak…