by meg | Apr 21, 2024 | Built Environment, Historic Preservation
Explore the Transformation Take an Inside Peek at Artspace Feed & Grain in Loveland Artspace has done a brilliant job of reimagining the historic Loveland Feed & Grain building on West 3rd Street in Loveland. Brilliant Adaptive Reuse Project Loveland’s...
by meg | Mar 30, 2024 | Built Environment, Historic Preservation
There’s a perception that historic preservation only ever always gets in the way of development. Once we’ve saved one important house and turned it into a museum, what would be the need to landmark anything else? Can’t the preservationists just focus...
by meg | Jul 18, 2023 | Growth & Density, Historic Preservation, Lifestyle, Resource Management, Uncategorized
While some residents are becoming increasingly concerned about the cost of housing in Fort Collins, there are others that are removing relatively more affordable homes and replacing them with… well, not housing. 125 S. Grant as it looked in 1948. Photo taken by...
by meg | May 2, 2023 | Affordability, Growing Pains, Growth & Density, Sense of Place
This is what increasing density looks like on the 4400 block on Tennyson Street in Denver. All images captured through Google Streetview. 4470 N. Tennyson St. is the house at the center of each image. 4470 N. Tennyson St, Denver – September 2011 4470 N. Tennyson...
by meg | Mar 1, 2023 | Built Environment, Growing Pains, Growth & Density, History
The current City Council has spent quite a bit of time looking at housing related issues. Government oversight of rental properties, rezoning mobile home parks, addressing occupancy limits and removing all single family zoning have all at least been on the table. Some...
by meg | Oct 22, 2019 | Natural Spaces & Parks
In 2010, the City Park Train was shut down due to safety concerns. There was a $350,000 line item in the Building on Basics 2 tax that was taken before city voters in 2015 in order to place a safer train in City Park. The tax passed (and included a lot more projects...