"Urban Living" in Pueblo (Colorado Springs, Fort Collins: for sale, 2015, hotel)

[Josseppie]

CSU Pueblo is building a urban living by its school. Here are two main projects they are working on right now.



Welcome to Villa Bella | LDM Development

Offered for sale is a 601.36+/- acre development opportunity with vast area for multiple uses. Located contiguous to Colorado State University-Pueblo this land has been zoned for Main-Street Commercial, Vehicular Commercial, Office Commercial, Entertainment Commercial, Business Park Flex, Single-Family Residential - Detached, Single Family Residential - Attached, Multi-Family, Parks and Trails, Open Space/Detention. With 38 different parcels, various zoning makes the possibilities immense. Villa Bella is a planned full service community development within the campus area. Villa Bella' s close proximity to the CSU-Pueblo campus has been the inspiration for this lifestyle community. Currently there are no for-seen restraints affecting the development of this site, making it well positioned to capitalize on the growth of this community and growing activity of CSU-Pueblo. Overall the site has been planned for 476 total build-out acres. This includes residential total of 396.5 acres, Retail/Commercial of 35.7 acres, Office total of 26.7 acres, Industrial/Flex of 11.2 and Hotel of 6 acres. rare campus-edge site provides great upside and includes many infrastructure improvements.

Location Description:

Villa Bella is located in a prime location that literally landlocks Colorado State University Pueblo. Contiguous to the University and surrounding the new Thunderbowl stadium, this is a rare opportunity to control a square mile of prime development.

Walking Stick Vista

[CS-Urbanist]

Villa Bella looks promising... Can't tell enough from the "Walking Stick Vista" (What does that title mean anyway?), but from looking at the site plan, it does not look too exciting...

[Josseppie]

It got its name from the golf course that is there, walking stick.

The developers were at the state fair and some are from Canada and picked Pueblo because of our location and climate. This is a long term project and they want it to have mixed use with a "walking" neighborhood also a R&D park to work with CSU - Pueblo. They had more drawings of the project at the fair, looked nice.

[katzenfreund]

Rather than leaving these posts in the Colorado Springs forum, I thought it would be better if they had their own thread. Hope you approve...

[Josseppie]

not really but what ever

[Josseppie]

This was in today's Pueblo Chieftain, continued good news for CSU Pueblo and PCC!


Enrollment up at Pueblo Community College, Colorado State University - Pueblo

PCC, CSU-Pueblo officials say they are experiencing double-digit growth over last year.

There will be significantly more students on the Pueblo Community College and Colorado State University-Pueblo campuses this spring than a year ago.

The link: The Pueblo Chieftain :: Enrollment up at college, university

[McGowdog]

Originally Posted by Josseppie

not really but what ever

You did NOT say that! We need to talk. Actually, I need to talk and you need to listen; the mods are here to help us. We don't argue with them. There's no need cluttering the Springs thread with Pueblo stuff. In fact, you should have just dropped this into the Pueblo/Southern Colorado thread. Not everybody in the state is going to be interested in this.

You might consider saying something like:

Thanks Katz! That's very gracious of you.

I, for one, am skeptical about the whole Walking Stick Vista thing, as is CS-Urbanist. They say this;

Living at Walking Stick Vista gives you access to the finest in food and entertainment that Colorado has to offer.

Finest food and entertainment that Colorado has to offer? Example?

Until we get an IMAX or a Laser Tag place like Biggs in Colorado Springs, this is a one-horse town. We don't even have a dollar theatre. We have one mall. One movie theatre. Pueblo is very very small. CSU Pueblo campus has about 5,700 students. The campus I went to, Auraria campus, has 38,000 students. You could fit 7 Pueblo Techs in there.

Let's be real Joss.

[katzenfreund]

LOL, McGowdog

... actually the first three posts were in the Colorado Springs forum, some people that are interested in Pueblo don't necessarily look there.

[Josseppie]

The moderator asked a question and I answered it, what's wrong with that? That was part of a larger debate in the other thread that made sense as we were talking about both schools. To take CSU Pueblo out because it is not in Colorado Springs made no sense to me. I was not rude to the moderator but I just expressed my opinion.

BTW I wanted to say that even though I might disagree with some of the decisions the moderators make I respect and appreciate what they do, without them we would not have this forum. So do not take my disagreement with them at times with disrespect, that could not be father from the truth.

Anywho, on to a new subject.

The developers over hype the development, all developers do that's marketing. As far as CSU Pueblo enrollment I am told that its only a matter of time before its the larger then CU Boulder and CSU Fort Collins and will be over 10,000 students by 2015. So they are talking about future growth. You can see that with the enrollment being up double digits last fall and now the springs semester.

[livecontent]

Josseppie
McGowdog,

I am happy that have started to give information about Pueblo. I think it is deserves some good coverage on this forum. It interest me because I have always felt it is a nice little town and I wanted to get more information about living there.

I enjoy the posts of McGowdog and the further information he has given about Pueblo--very good.

In regards to the moderator's interjection, you should not be bothered. Katzenfreund has been very fair, certainly to me. I accept a spanking, when necessary ; even though my beautiful literary poem about McGowdog was rejected "I am from Colorado and that is the way I roll"---I just though it was just pure inspiration--but I just accept.

I like Katzenfreund--every time I see his moniker, I do not think of "cats friends", I think of "Katzenjammer kids"---a old comic strip that takes me back many years.

Livecontent