John Hazlehurst During much of Colorado Springsâ history, times of prosperity and growth have often brought sudden and unwelcome change. From the late â60s to the early â80s, new buildings replaced old throughout central Downtown. We built the Pikes Peak Center, the Holly Sugar building, the sleek new Antlers hotel and a couple of medium-rise office buildings, all in the name of urban renewal. We ripped down half a dozen irreplaceable historic buildings and scores of lesser Victorian structures, many in perfectly good shape. Reminders of our folly still disfigure Downtownâs heart, where parking lots are the unmarked graves of the Chief Theater, the Burns Building and many others.