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CSU Pueblo, city discuss metro districts and URA overlay for campus-adjacent development
Summary
CSU Pueblo representatives briefed council on plans for three metropolitan districts and an urban renewal area to finance roads, utilities and public improvements for a 116-acre mixed-use development near campus; council asked about mills, student costs and timeline for public hearings and elections.
Representatives from Colorado State University Pueblo presented a plan at the July 14 Pueblo City Council work session to create three metropolitan districts and an urban renewal area to finance horizontal public improvements for a mixed-use development on approximately 116 acres of university-owned land adjacent to campus.
Rico Munn, acting president at CSU Pueblo, and Garrison M. Ortiz, the university's vice president of operations and chief financial officer, described the project as mixed-use and student-focused, including retail, restaurants, a hotel and student housing. Ortiz said the plan uses a layered public-finance approach — metropolitan districts overlaid with an urban renewal area — to fund streets, water, sewer and park improvements and to advance a master-developer selection process planned for the fall.
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