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Colorado is home to 4 of the top-50 brewing companies in the nation. For context, at the end of 2013 there were 2,822 breweries in the United States, including 2,768 craft breweries subdivided into 1,237 brewpubs , 1,412 microbreweries and 119 regional craft breweries. [ 5 ]
[3]: 2–2 The Powers corridor was included in the National Highway System, [7]: 1 and studies were prepared to extend the road to I-25 north and south of Colorado Springs. [ 3 ] : 2–3 In June 1999, the City of Colorado Springs, El Paso County, and CDOT completed an agreement for a phased transfer of ownership for Powers Boulevard.
Colorado Springs City Hall in 2008. On November 2, 2010, Colorado Springs voters adopted a council-strong mayor form of government. The City of Colorado Springs transitioned to the new system of government in 2011. Under the council-strong mayor system of government, the mayor is the chief executive and the city council is the legislative branch.
Colorado Springs grew by 164% when 11,140 people settled in the town between 1880 and 1890. [52] After the Cripple Creek gold discovery in 1891, the people who made a fortune from the gold rush and industry built large houses on Wood Avenue, then in the undeveloped downtown area of Colorado Springs.
Roswell, now annexed into the city of Colorado Springs, Colorado, [1] [a] was a coal mine settlement near the northern bluffs of Colorado Springs [1] and a 19th-century railroad junction. [4] The town was located at roughly the present intersection of Fillmore Street and North Nevada Avenue in Colorado Springs. [5]
Brewery Workers Local 366 in Golden, Colorado, struck the Coors plant in August 1977. Coors continued brewery operations and replaced the striking workers who stayed out. The new workers voted to decertify the union in December 1978, officially ending the strike. [3] The strike and decertification caused a 10-year boycott of Coors by the AFL ...
Bent County became a county within Colorado in February 1870 and Las Animas was the county seat. Prowers was elected the first county commissioner and Boggsville was made the county seat in November. [1] A Democrat, [3] Prowers served in the territorial legislature in 1873 and the state legislature in 1880; [13] [4] Colorado became a state in ...
Kevin McNerney resigned from SweetWater Brewing Company in 2008 to spend more time with his family, and later became brewmaster at 5 Season's Brewing Company. [2] In 2012 SweetWater completed a three-phase expansion project adding additional office and event space, a bottling line and packaging hall, and a tank farm that increased capacity from ...