Pueblo and Southern Colorado (Denver, Colorado Springs: loans, buy, high school)

[Proleadership03]

I Found Infomation about seranto projection!

http://www.davidjerb.com/080902%20Seranto[1].pdf

1,100-acre mixed use development straddling I-25 on the north side of Pueblo. Development plans call for a new interchange on I-25, which would become the terminus of Pueblo Blvd, extending Pueblo Blvd. to a full loop by-pass of I-25. The commercial area surrounding the new interchange will feature the best new life-style retail center site along the Colorado front range. Other commercial sites will be available for neighborhood shopping, office parks, and research and development facilities. The residential areas will feature covenant controlled communities with thematic architecture and a full amenity package, including finished parks with ponds and water features, a community pool, a club house, a K-8 school site, and extensive trails with links to the Fountain Creek Open Space.

Picture and Infomation from www.davidjerb.com

[darjoh]

Thank you for the pics of the YMCA rec center being built.
I really like Ft. Collins, and NW of I-25, but I think I may like Pueblo more. I dunno, I gotta just spend some time down there and really check it out. Like spend a few weekends there driving around, and getting a feel for it. I think Pueblo has a lot of potential, but all the planned housing to be built is kinda scary. People talk about from Colorado Springs to Fort Collins becoming a populated mess like Southern California, and the thought of Pueblo not being mentioned intrigues me. I like the "out of the way" feel, and community closeness of a small town, but I like the amenities of a city close by. It seems Pueblo, just the way it is, fits that scenario.
I will continue to follow this tread. Keep up the info.
Thanks.

[Josseppie]

The thing that I like about Pueblo is how we are developing.

For example with all the developments being planned out Pueblo will be about the same size as Colorado Springs but with only 1/2 the land area. That is because Pueblo is looking at how Colorado Springs and Denver developed and learn from their mistakes. Not saying Pueblo is perfect but we have a lot less traffic then Colorado Springs and Fort Collins due to the road net work and use of a grid system mixed in with highways.

[Josseppie]

[McGowdog]

Hey PLS-3, nice map. That thing shows that whole corridor as being zoned for commercial and it makes sense.

Since I can remember in 77, Pueblo has been so reluctant to grow. If that Pueblo Blvd were to extend out and hook up to Purcell there and connect to the Bragdon exit (MM108) like that, it would be our version of a completed C-470; something the Denver metro only dreams about. They're close to completing a "beltway", but how much of our money have they gouged us with when we drive E-470? Does that money even stay in state? In country? Another topic for another subforum. Sorry.

But welcome to the soon-to-be Pueblo Sub-forum PLS-3. Welcome Joss, and welcome PastorBill. I could take a vacation and nobody would miss me!

I'm personally for all this potential growth, because I have a Get busy livin' or get busy dyin' philosophy. I'm a God-fearing individual. Fear in this sense doesn't mean "afraid" but in "awe" of a "Hallowed Being" that will provide our needs.

I refuse to eat spiders and suck rocks. I'm gonna try to keep my water bill below 40 bucks though. But that's just me.

[Josseppie]

Also, Pueblo has the foundation set for our version of E-470 now with the road that goes by the Vestas wind turbine building and the cement plant up around the power plant then end at business 50. As time goes and more traffic uses that road it will be upgraded to a 4 lane highway. The plan calls for the another loop to go around west on the stem beach exit and either by or over the dam!

[Josseppie]

More pictures of the snow in Pueblo West.

[McGowdog]

Liberty point. I rode my Sportster up there last time I was there.

How would you like one of those homes up there? What do you think of the water level of the Res this late into the winter?

Originally Posted by Josseppie

Also, Pueblo has the foundation set for our version of E-470 now with the road that goes by the Vestas wind turbine building and the cement plant up around the power plant then end at business 50. As time goes and more traffic uses that road it will be upgraded to a 4 lane highway. The plan calls for the another loop to go around west on the stem beach exit and either by or over the dam!

You call it Business 50, I call it South 50. I call Hwy 50, or 47 as it goes along the northern commercial corridor from P-Dub and the end of Pueblo Blvd along the dealerships and the franchise joints and past the mall and W-Mart and the College and Baculite Mesa ... all that I call north 50 and the 50 exit that branches to the east from between 29th and 13th exits... I call that middle 50. North, South, and Middle 50. But that's just me. South 50 is either Sante Fe drive south and east or the exit between 1st exit and Abriendo exit or... Central exit to Northern and east... until the road curves down and drops you onto... south 50! Whatdoyathink? Crazy?

Oh, anyway... I would love to see Stem Beach go west and loop all the way around to Swallows Road.. as in bridge the area south and west of the res to the western outskirts of P-Dub. If that happened, I could cut 10 to 15 minutes out of my morning and evening commute! And it would be very scenic.

Have you seen my Colorado City and Graneros Gorge pics?

[Delta Planter]

Good Grief! I was always under the impression it would be CS coming south, NOT Pueblo going north! I also recall, when living there, the speculation that eventually there would be nothing vacant from Denver to Pueblo along the interstate. Looks like that is coming to pass, huh?

A question, though, one I've not fully understood all the while, is why Pueblo West even sprung up? Was it flight from Pueblo proper, or just a simple expansion toward the mountains, to include the reservoir?

When I was stationed at the Reserve Center, one drilling unit procured a captain's gig from San Diego. After refitting it for a year, they took it out to the reservoir on drill weekends. The primary purpose was to train coxswains in the art of driving small boats when they were send on training duty to places like San Diego.

And, McGowDog, yes, I AM retired after giving 20+ years in service to my country. Lucky? Yes, I suppose so, lucky to have made it!

[McGowdog]

I was responding to your signature there by your user name. It was kind of intended to be an ice-breaker, not a negative comment about your commitment to our Country.

It also came with a + rep. Something very foreign to most on City-Data these days.

I gladly pay taxes, vote, and serve jury duty and try to abide by the laws of the land and help others where I can. That's how I've served my Country.