Pace of hotel construction hits nearly 30-year high in Colorado Springs

PLUS | Easter Sunday brings surge in worshipers at local churches; The soul behind Colorado's Dead Mexican Gulch and more. [View in browser]( [Share with a friend]( Springs PM Update Good evening! Today is Sunday, March 31, 2024. Catch up on everything going on in Colorado in 5 minutes. [Building boom: Pace of hotel construction hits nearly 30-year high in Colorado Springs]( The Colorado Springs-area lodging industry has remained in good health amid one of the biggest hotel building booms in nearly 30 years — and that wave of construction shows no sign of slowing. [Read More]( [Motorcyclist injured in downtown Colorado Springs crash]( A motorcyclist sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries in a crash with a vehicle near downtown Sunday. [Read More]( [LETTERS: A haven for help and hope; radical teachers' unions]( We stand beside the CEO of Springs Rescue Mission (SRM), Jack Briggs. He and all the wonderful staff and volunteers at SRM have made it a haven for the vast majority of clients they see on a daily basis, those who are most vulnerable and in need. They provide meals, showers, shelter and programs to start clients on a journey of healing and a trajectory of hope. [Read More]( [Easter Sunday brings surge in worshipers at Colorado Springs churches]( Last Saturday, about 200 members of the nondenominational Manna Church took to the streets of Colorado Springs. They were scattered in location but united in mission: hand out calling cards to people with the times and locations of the church’s three Easter Sunday services. [Read More]( [Fire leaves home uninhabitable in east Colorado Springs]( Investigators on Sunday were trying to determine what caused a house to catch fire at 1007 Wynkoop Drive in Colorado Springs. [Read More]( [Homicide unit investigates death in Colorado Springs]( An investigation is underway after a man was found dead in Colorado Springs late Friday night, according to the Colorado Springs Police Department. [Read More]( [The soul behind Colorado's Dead Mexican Gulch]( The soul behind the name Dead Mexican Gulch was a solitary sheepherder with murder in his past, struck by lightning and buried where he fell. A century after the unlucky man’s bizarre death, his gravesite in northeast Garfield County north of Glenwood Springs still stands — a pile of jagged rocks topped by a weathered cross held together with rusty nails and wire. [Read More]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( [YouTube]( Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up [here.]( Engage in the conversation in [today's eEdition]( Interested in podcasts? Check out ours [here]( Already subscribed? [Log in.]( Manage your email preferences or unsubscribe [here.]( 30 East Pikes Peak Avenue, Suite 100 Colorado Springs, CO 80903