YIMBY News for 2/20

[Eric Budd]

Downtown Colorado Springs neighborhood seeks collaboration in the face of redevelopment

Colorado Public Radio

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KEYWORD SCORE: 38.45. affordable, apartment, development, downtown, gentrification, growth, housing, housing cost, income, project, rent, urban

The historic Mill Street neighborhood just south of downtown Colorado Springs is a diverse, working class area primed for reinvestment. Residents there know it, and they’re not against it. In one upcoming project, they’re seeking to collaborate with the developer of a luxury hotel to help minimize the effects of gentrification. A community organization plans to ask city council to hold off on approving an urban renewal plan until the developer signs a legally binding agreement. Heila Ershadi with the Pikes Peak Bulletin has been covering the story. She spoke with KRCC’s Andrea Chalfin about it

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Sound Transit ‘Building Blocks’ Set Stage for Major Decisions this Spring

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.48. construction, downtown, parking, project, rent, urban

Sound Transit is steaming toward some of the biggest decision points that the agency has seen in at least a decade, with pivotal choices ahead around how to balance a $34 billion shortfall set to come in front of the board in a matter of weeks. On the line are Sound Transit’s ambitious system expansion plans, with many elements of the 2016 Sound Transit 3 (ST3) ballot measure at risk of delays or, even worse, lines stopping short of where voters were promised high capacity transit. Over the past year, Sound Transit has been undertaking what it is calling the Enterprise Initiative, an agency-wi

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