Downtown Review Board approves 7‑story hotel at 524 South Cascade

The Downtown Review Board on March 4 approved a form‑based zone development plan and warrants allowing a seven‑story, mixed‑use lodging project at 524 South Cascade in Downtown Colorado Springs, the board voted 7‑0.

The project covers roughly 0.88 acres on the northwest corner of South Cascade Avenue and West Moreno Avenue and would replace a one‑story vacant office building with two mixed‑use structures: a seven‑story hotel with about 80 guest rooms and a two‑story “guest house.” Staff and the applicant told the board that the design requires two warrants: one for the south‑edge building envelope where a pedestrian plaza breaks the required zero‑setback street wall, and one for reduced glazing on the two‑story guest house (the applicant…