Now, I’m embarking on a much different approach with my newest Springs projects. Instead of downtown urban living, I’ve proposed a pair of what I call family-oriented apartments on the city’s southeast side, an area with significant business growth and an underserved market for new housing options.

October is National Women’s Small Business Month honoring and bringing attention to dynamic women who hustle. With over 11 million (and growing!) women owning small businesses in the United States, host Shannon Brinias and guests on “The Extra” feature a select few who are entrepreneurs wi…

“There are a lot of apartments coming on the market all at once, we’ve all seen it, we see construction everywhere,” Thousand of apartment units are under construction around Colorado Springs.

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A bank based in a tiny town on the state’s eastern plains has made a big investment in Colorado Springs’ red-hot apartment market and its booming downtown. Eastern Colorado Bank of Cheyenne Wells paid $12.8 million Tuesday to purchase Casa Mundi, a four-story, 27-unit apartment building at 418 S. Tejon St. — part of a wave […]

A unique rental housing project called Mosaica, is launching with a plan of bridging the affordable housing gap in Colorado Springs. It is happening just south and east of downtown Colorado Springs.

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Darsey Nicklasson is a relative newcomer to the highly competitive world of real estate development in Colorado Springs. She doesn’t have a big name and doesn’t boast a big company. Her apartment projects, however, are having […]

Fast-growing northern and northeast Colorado Springs have been hot spots for apartment development for several years, while downtown is seeing a flurry of new multifamily projects. Now, it’s the southeast side’s turn. At least seven multifamily projects, including some that would offer affordable rents for low- and moderate-income residents and essential workers, are in various […]

Blue Dot Place, a 33-unit apartment building that opened almost five years ago and was at the forefront of a wave of multifamily projects in downtown Colorado Springs, has been sold by developers Darsey Nicklasson and Kathy Loo. The four-story Blue Dot Place, at 412 S. Nevada Ave., was purchased by Ray and Barbara Rhodes, […]

The interest in living in downtown Colorado Springs’ continues to boom. Longtime residents, and those just moving to the region, are interested in living downtown and taking in what the city life h…

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – Local leaders met in Colorado Springs Friday to discuss new housing initiatives aimed at providing more affordable homes to families in the area. Mayor John Suthers and City Council told KRDO they’re working against the clock to get more affordable homes built before…

Downtown Colorado Springs is on the rise—literally. Can this impressive wave of development finally bring an end to “Denvy?”

Another apartment project is coming to downtown Colorado Springs, offering features and amenities for renters who want an urban lifestyle and the ability to be near restaurants, bars and the like. Construction will begin in January on the four-story, 27-unit Casa Mundi Lofts, which will go up on the west side of Tejon Street, between […]

It was a red-letter day for the owners of the new Blue Dot Place apartments in downtown Colorado Springs. The 33-unit building at 412 S. Nevada Ave. welcomed its first renters Friday, culminating a more than 1½-year effort by Darsey Nicklasson and Kathy Loo to bring new residences to an area whose supporters long have […]

Developers of a four-story, 33-unit apartment building broke ground Thursday in downtown Colorado Springs – a project they hope will revitalize downtown’s south edge while providing urban-style housing for young professionals and others. Blue Dot Place will be one of the few apartment projects to be constructed in recent years in downtown, where advocates have […]

Darsey Nicklasson doesn’t want people to come downtown to visit: She’s hoping they come to stay. Nicklasson, a former project manager for Pulte Homes who lives downtown and has a background in community development, has been conducting interviews for several months and is now sending out an online survey to gauge interest in a residential […]