COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – A large group, all wearing blue shirts, filled most of the chairs in the Colorado Springs City Council Chambers on Tuesday. Their big ask was a majority ‘no’ vote on a project that the Colorado Springs Urban Renewal Authority says would improve their neighborhood.
“Our job is to cure blight and to bring in projects all over the city,” Jeriah Walker, executive director of the URA, told KRDO13 after the council voted to approve and create the Moreno and Cascade Urban Renewal District.
Phase 1 of the project will build a 7-story hold called Catbird off Moreno Street, where an abandoned property sites now, but it’s phase two that has Walker really excited. That phase aims to build between 75 and 115 attainable housing units…