Feb. 27—A year after announcing grand plans for a new transit center, project consultants and Colorado Springs city staff told the City Council on Monday they expect ground to break on the project in 2025.
A public-private partnership will build the new transit center that Chief of Staff Jeff Greene said would be a "major highlight of our community" and could also combine office space, apartments or a hotel. The city has long needed to replace its existing transit center at East Kiowa Street and North Nevada Avenue, and building an updated facility will create a central multimodal transportation hub that could also spur economic revitalization downtown, officials have said.