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WORDS Continued from page 8 the reorganization plan is to immediately close 32 stores. Park-
er is their one remaining Colorado store which they currently
across the country. Ross is a 1,270 store chain located in two- plan to continue operating. E-commerce has severely impacted
thirds of the country and marketing specialty store brand wom- the sporting goods retail sector causing a rethinking of how
en’s designs at bargain pricing; a basic store design with racks they stock their stores and the need to close poor performing
and racks of choices. operations. MC Sports is closing 68 underperforming sports
stores.
Following five years of
planning and savings, the COLORADO SPRINGS – Following eight years as a ghost
much-needed CRYSTAL village of partially complet-
VALLEY FIRE STATION ed buildings, last year’s on
#152 will hopefully open in again – off again – on again
2018. To be located at the sale negotiations culminat-
northwest corner of Plum ing in a sale in Oct for $22.5
Creek Boulevard and Crys- million, another four months
tal Valley Parkway on Town owned land, the station will cost of planning and develop-
about $7.2 million to build along with another $1 million for ment negotiations, and of
another fire engine. Twelve firefighters will be housed at the course a name change, for-
station to start with and with the area record of over 60 percent merly Colorado Crossing,
medical calls, a future addition of paramedics is planned. An now VICTORY RIDGE,
open house was held on February 1, displaying three possible here we go! The new own-
designs and requesting public input. With final design under- ers of this 153-acre devel-
way, we should see groundbreaking by summer in order to hit opment, Westside Invest-
the 2018 deadline. This addition to Castle Rock’s south side ment Partners, is ready to
service should provide some relief for the Larkspur Fire Protec- kick off the new plans for
tion District that already services the southern portion of Bell Victory Ridge. The par-
Mountain Ranch. tially completed 14-screen
theatre is being sold to the
PARKER – Just a short hop over to Parker for another interest- New Mexico-based ICON
ing and unique CINEMA, which hopes
planned de- to get started within weeks
v e l o p m e n t . and complete the theatre
In 1995, the the later part of this year.
Town of Park- Westside plans to move forward with the partially completed
er acquired the 110,000 square foot office building and parking garage by late
2.5 acre, Mainstreet Center with the plan to both preserve its summer/early fall and is also working on plans for new hotels,
historic quality, and to promote additional draw to the central 16 acres of apartments, stores and restaurants. A major change
core of the old downtown. With the old Schoolhouse anchor- to the original plans is the sale of one-third of the site to the
ing its core, the Town sought a private partner to redevelop the Scott Hall Field of Dreams Foundation for the development of
gymnasium portion of the property with a use that is compatible the Larry Ochs Sports Complex to include 8 baseball fields, 11
with the arts, cultural and entertainment uses of the rest of the soccer fields, multipurpose fields, concessions, picnics and res-
site, and with a retail/restaurant component or other community taurant areas. The sports complex is expected to break ground
gathering space. The developer proposes a two-story building this fall. This was accomplished by a City land swap of the
(the PARKER TAP HOUSE), adjacent to the School, to con- original 47-acre sports land site at Powers and Old Ranch Road.
tain 9.556 square feet of interior space and an additional 2,400 Also joining the sports complex, Academy School District 20
square feet of outdoor seating on the second floor. A seating will create a $7 million state-of-the-art Aquatic Center. Timing
capacity of 200 with two separate bar/lounge areas, a second- is right, development interest is strong, and it is looking like
floor performance stage and a small first-floor retail space are this “hot corner” of InterQuest and Voyager Parkway is ready
planned and a prominent feature would be the distillery element to roll.
clad in copper. The Community Open-House on Jan 26th was
met with strong community support and the preliminary is un- With its first craft beer estab-
derway with hopefully an actual ground breaking by the end of lishment opened in Eugene,
summer. Oregon, in 2014, GROWL-
ER MICRO PUB’s CEO
The new GANDER MOUN- Dan White quickly moved
TAIN store across from the to franchise the success-
Costco will not be affected by ful operation and move the
the recent bankruptcy filling.
With 162 stores in 27 states, Continued on page 11
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