NEIGHBORS CONDEMN OWNER OF BLIGHTED HOUSE
Residents of the tidy Golf Course Acres neighborhood are fed up with Fire Hendricks and all her excuses for not fixing up her house, which was condemned by the Colodrado Springs Code Enforcement...
View ArticleTHE GRASS IS ALWAYS MEANER ON THE CITY RIGHT-OF-WAY
Fred Van Antwerp wants to walk his neighborhood in peace and out of the way of traffic. In the Broadmoor area of Colorado Springs where he lives, that’s a trick because there are no sidewalks and few...
View ArticleJOSEPH O’BRIEN: BARON OF BLIGHT IN COLORADO SPRINGS
How would you like to live across the street from this house? Joseph O'Brien's family home at 715 N. 24th St. has been condemned since 1973. Neighbors are sick of looking at it and suffering...
View ArticleIVYWILD IN THE TRENCHES IN BATTLE AGAINST BLIGHT
Ivywild is a neighborhood south of downtown Colorado Springs and northeast of the Broadmoor area. Ivywild is a hard-luck neighborhood south of downtown Colorado Springs where folks have been...
View ArticleO’BRIEN REMAINS PATRIARCH OF BLIGHT
Months after being warned to accelerate the pace of repairs, Joseph O'Brien has had 15 windows installed and some paint applied to the house at 715 N. 24th St. But Ken Lewis, city code enforcement...
View ArticleNO BOUQUETS OF ROSES AT ARVESON SHRINE
The house located on the grounds of the “Saint Rose Arveson Shrine” at 36th Street and West Pikes Peak Ave. was declared uninhabitable Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. Officers from the Humane Society of the...
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