Fort Collins - A Town Envisions the Future on Its Own Terms

FORT COLLINS, COLORADO — As this mid-sized city in the American West prepared to revise its long-term city plan last year — the blueprint for its future — the biggest challenge was the here and now.  

 

Tax revenues had plunged thanks to the recession. Retailing had eroded, in a place that had long seen itself as the downtown of far-flung rural northern Colorado, taking the health of the downtown with it. Even the mechanics of the planning process, using experts in transportation and economics paid by the city, posed a daunting hurdle, not to mention how to pay for the roads and redevelopment that planning usually promises.

“We could do an urban design plan, but we didn’t have the money to pay for any of it,” said the mayor, Karen Weitkunat. “It put a reality check on what we were here to do.”  Source: New York Times

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Fort Collins Info - Weekend Events

Old Town Comes to Ram Town
	Enjoy Downtown at the next CSU home game! Downtown will have a huge area in Ram Town and will be serving up the best of craft beers, downtown businesses, and

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Old Town Fort Collins skating rink being set up, holiday events begin Friday

Workers are installing the skating rink in Old Town Fort Collins this week as downtown merchants prepare to kick off the holiday season.

The season starts Friday, Nov. 4 with a First Friday Gallery walk, along with the illumination of the Downtown Holiday Lights. click here for full article . . .