Tag: Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Colorado tourism industry took $500M hit in 2020: study
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Tourism spending in Colorado fell 36% last year from the previous year, a $9 billion reduction to $15.4 billion during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study says. It was the lowest annual total since at least 2011, when the economy was still recovering from the…
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Colorado Springs contracting firm sold to California contracting giant
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save GE Johnson Construction Co., a longtime Colorado Springs business whose recent high-profile projects include the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum, the Pikes Peak Summit Visitor Center and downtown’s Weidner Field, has agreed to be sold to a California company. DPR Construction, ranked in May as…
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Downtown festival, parade to celebrate Colorado Springs’ 150th anniversary
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Chances are you might not be around to celebrate Colorado Springs’ next big anniversary. So you better celebrate the city’s sesquicentennial while the celebrating is good. Saturday will mark the final big event in a…
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Denver gas prices hit six-month high
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denver gas prices — averaging $2.388 a gallon on Monday — hit a six-month high, according to online price tracker GasBuddy.com. Monday’s average was the highest since late July and up nearly 8 cents in…
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Colorado Springs Mayor Suthers: Air Force’s Space Command decision ‘absolutely comical’
A document created by the Pentagon to justify its decision to strip Colorado Springs of U.S. Space Command and send its 1,400 troops to Alabama has caused even more consternation among local leaders who say it proves the process was flawed and politics may have played a role. The Air Force found Colorado lacking in…
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NORAD tracking Santa all day and night
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As the anticipating builds for Santa’s arrival tonight, you can check in on his progress throughout the day with NORAD’s online tracker. Typically NORAD takes thousands of calls from children across the country. But this year to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, only a…
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Colorado restaurant owners who defied ‘safer-at-home’ order on Mother’s Day close 2nd location
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The owners of C&C Breakfast & Korean Kitchen, the Castle Rock restaurant that defied Colorado’s safer-at-home rule on Mother’s Day, are shutting down their Colorado Springs location permanently as tighter health restrictions go into effect…
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Interstate 25 rivals Aurora, Colorado Springs could be top U.S. Space Command picks
The biggest competitor Colorado Springs faces in its bid to keep U.S. Space Command in town may be just an hour’s drive north if traffic is light. Buckley Air Force Base, the last bastion of a vast military complex that kept the Denver-area economy humming through the Cold War has many of the same characteristics…
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New Cog Railway construction reaches halfway point up Pikes Peak
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Construction on the new Broadmoor Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway is now halfway complete and on track to open to the public next spring. Crews with San Francisco-based railway general contractor Stacy and Witbeck…
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Interstate 25 rivals Colorado Springs, Aurora could be top U.S. Space Command picks
The biggest competitor Colorado Springs faces in its bid to keep U.S. Space Command in town might be just an hour’s drive north if traffic is light. Buckley Air Force Base, the last bastion of a vast military complex that kept the Denver-area economy humming through the Cold War, has many of the same characteristics…