Weidner Field opened earlier this year in lower Downtown Colorado Springs, part of City for Champions. United Soccer League/Sandy Evans
Money from the state to fund the City for Champions tourism ventures dropped by 13 percent in 2020, compared to 2019, or about $650,000.
But the city is still on track to collect $120.5 million in sales tax rebates to help pay for the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum and Hall of Fame, Weidner Field, the Bill Hybl Sports Medicine and Performance Center at UCCS, Robson Arena at Colorado College and the Air Force Academy Visitors Center.
So says Jariah Walker, executive director of the Colorado Springs Urban Renewal Authority, which oversees the City for Champions program and its financing.
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Plans to construct a new $35 million, 137-unit affordable housing apartment complex at 1609 Zebulon Drive in southeast Colorado Springs are moving forward. The new four-story apartment complex will serve residents earning between $17,000 and $57,000 a year and will include 137 one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments that are just under 1,000 square feet on average, developer Cohen-Esrey said.
Courtesy of Cohen-Esrey Development Group
Courtesy of Cohen-Esrey Development Group
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