Steamboat Today: Spring Creek is wrong place for performance venue
We admire Piknik Theater Director Stuart Handloff’s goal of creating a new community performance stage in a serene setting, but we are concerned that Spring Creek Park is the wrong place at the wrong time.
City of Steamboat Springs Parks and Recreation commissioners were tentatively receptive this month to Handloff’s proposal to build an amphitheater to seat 200 to 300 in the park. But the commissioners also had some concerns and so do we.
Commission Chairman Alan Koermer pointed out that the city is in the midst of preparing to begin the urgent project of replacing an aging dam at Spring Creek ponds. Koermer expressed concern that pursuing the amphitheater in conjunction with the dam work could lead to delays.
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Michael Karlik
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mabinty-quarshie@coloradopolitics.com
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Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
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Colorado leaders express outrage and pain following 9/11 attacks | A LOOK BACK
Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics
rachael.wright@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 10 hours ago
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Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 20 hours ago
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deborah.smith@denvergazette.com
Updated 11 hours ago
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