CSBJ Daily

The 100 block of south Tejon Street will see a restaurant shakeup in the coming months.
Fujiyama Japanese restaurant and sushi bar at 28 S. Tejon St. #A will move two doors to the north, into the former Seabel’s space which is now vacant. Sonterra Grill owner Randy Price plans to open […]

Colorado Springs Police want to have a meeting with downtown bar owners and liquor licensees.
The meeting is scheduled for 2 p.m. tomorrow at the Gold Hill Division station at 955 W. Moreno.
Gold Hill Division Commander Kurt Pillard said the meeting is intended as chance for bar owners to meet police that patrol […]

The most significant issue during two weeks of two-way Tejon Street traffic is not automobile and pedestrian accidents as many had expected, but rather taxi cab pick ups and drop offs.
City traffic engineer Dave Krauth said the stops are clogging traffic.
“We haven’t gotten any reports of auto or pedestrian accidents,” he said. “That doesn’t mean […]

Easy Park, the pre-purchase meter parking card system that was introduced downtown last springs is expanding to Old Colorado City with 140 meters.
Parking officials also plan to add 850 Easy Park meters downtown.
Easy Park eliminates the need for drivers to have dimes or quarters to park at meters. The card also […]

Cowboys nightclub downtown
Cowboys nightclub has been named one of five finalists for the Academy of Country Music’s Nightclub of the Year award.
Cowboys, which recently moved downtown to Tejon Street, is competing against Billy Bob’s in Fort Worth, Texas; Coyote Joe’s in Charlotte, N.C.; Joe’s in Chicago and Wild Bill’s in […]

Downtown Colorado Springs once again has a convenience store, Athan’s, at 32 E. Bijou St.
Owner Athan Loukakis opened the store Friday. The store sells sodas, cigarettes, snacks, aspirin, batteries and gum along with a few odds and ends such as envelopes and hand sanitizer.
Loukakis hopes to fill the downtown convenience store […]

The City of Colorado Springs Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services will receive a $120,000 grant from the Phil Long Community Fund and Denver Broncos Charities to help build its destination skate park in Memorial Park.
The new facility, which will be just north of the Sertich Ice Center, will be designed to accommodate […]

Two different funding mechanisms are now available through the Downtown Development Authority for those interested in downtown development projects.
The programs, tax increment financing through reimbursement contracts and challenge grants, require an application and review process.
The deadline for challenge grant applications is April 30. Applications for TIF are ongoing.
Application […]

In an effort to cut costs, the Greater Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce is moving from its offices at 2 N. Cascade Ave. into the Exchange National Bank building at 6 S. Tejon St., suite 700.
The new location, where U.S. Bank is located, has lower rent, said Joan Saunders, chamber chief operating […]

My column in last Friday’s CSBJ seems to have caused some healthy discourse. The CEO of some company that I have never met at the dozens of community functions I attend every month says I should get involved in the community. You think?
While the emails are coming in spouting all the good things the C.S. […]