by John W. Olson | Nov 20, 2021 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Streetscapes, Urban Planning and Design, Urban Renewal, Urbanism
Old Colorado CIty (OCC) boasts wonderful brick buildings along Colorado Avenue and has the City’s highest concentration of Victorian Homes. It is a neighborhood in Colorado Springs rich with history. “Colorado City,” as it was once known, actually...
by John W. Olson | Apr 21, 2010 | Urban Planning and Design
I have recently faced an issue that I see becoming a common issue as the golf industry continues to decline and the costs and availability of water continues to decrease. That issue is what to do with the excess number of golf courses that our country accumulated...
by John W. Olson | Apr 14, 2010 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Urban Planning and Design
Parking is always a necessary evil for any successful development. Whether it is a shopping center or a neighborhood. Someone always has a problem with parking. Sometimes there is far too much parking, sometimes there is not nearly enough. Most...
by John W. Olson | Mar 13, 2010 | Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning and Design
While at T&T, I had the pleasure to provide streetscape services and construction documents of the Pueblo Main Street Parking Garage, Judicial Complex and Police Annex. I served as the project manager for the landscape architecture, pavement design and overall...
by John W. Olson | Feb 28, 2010 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning and Design
There are far too many suburban shopping centers built as single-use developments. These shopping centers have short lives leaving a blighted greyfield behind after the 30-year or so vitality is gone. The image above is a suburban retrofit of one of the greyfields...
