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David Jenkins, founder and chairman of NorâWood Development Group â the regionâs most prolific development company â has proposed creating the GSF Business Improvement District covering 23 acres where the old
Gazette building is located at 30 S. Prospect St. The BID, just east of downtown, also will include the neighboring long-closed St. Francis Hospital, city planners said in agenda materials for the March 8 City Council work session. Norâwood owns the property at issue.
The BID and two associated metro districts would issue up to $100 million to fund public improvements, including utilities, two parking garages, drainage improvements, parks, streetscapes, landscaping and public art.
 Courtesy Timberline Landscaping
Subzero temperatures saw Colorado Springs Fire Department crews responding to fire sprinkler system ruptures at three local hospitals on Feb. 15.Â
The breaks â at Centura Healthâs Penrose Hospital and St. Francis Medical Center, and UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central â were among widespread problems caused by a freezing Valentineâs Day weekend. Â
âSprinklers are designed typically not to be in areas subject to freezing, but all kinds of things can happen,â Deputy Fire Marshal Kris Cooper said. âLots of times those systems run through attic spaces, dropped ceilings and mechanical spaces.â
The department responds to alarms that go off automatically when sprinkler lines activate.
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Los Angeles morgues overflow as funeral homes turn away families
By Matthew Ormseth, Rong-Gong Lin II, Luke Money and Soumya Karlamangla
January 2, 2021 11.30am
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Los Angeles: A monthslong surge of coronavirus cases in Los Angeles County is reaching its grim if inevitable zenith as deaths reach once-unthinkable levels, medical infrastructure is buckling under a flood of patients and officials fear the mortality numbers will only worsen in the coming weeks.
The county recorded an average of 151 people dying from COVID-19 each day in the past week - a figure that s almost as high as the average number of people dying daily from every other cause, about 170 a day. But more recently, those numbers have spiked considerably.