City of Boulder, CO Inside Boulder News, 16 Aug 2019

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This week on Inside Boulder News - Mural Monday, Citywide Retail Study and Creekside Concert Series

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This week on inside boulder news, it's fences up for this former hospital site, see how artists are transforming this construction site into a work of art. Results are in for this citywide study find out where boulders retail base ranks and the Creekside concert series are back.

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Welcome to inside boulder news, your source for all things: Boulder I'm, Donovan Daniel, it's, let's us up for the formal alpine hospital site in North Boulder as crews gear up for its deconstruction process, but community members will come across something colorful and unexpected at this construction site. Take a look about 15,000, linear feet of fencing, surrounds the former Boulder Community Health site, as crews get ready for HD construction process. Artists from across the Front Range are turning this area into more than a construction site through.

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The city and through the Office of Arts and Culture and our creative neighborhoods program, we had an opportunity to invite five artists through a community selection panel to come and actually create murals along the construction fence. The.

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Mira project is an opportunity to integrate art into the site while it remains vacant, helping enhance the site visually and adding an active space for community engagement, five murals will surround the nearly nine acre site, the ultimate.

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Goal is to change the work every year and as the site changes through deconstruction and potential reconstruction, we'll have more opportunities and different stories to tell with the mural program.

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Three local boulder artists are among the list of commissioned artists for this project. Community members will have the opportunity to meet all of those involved with creating the murals in an upcoming event. We'd love.

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To have you come join us. This is part of the community cultural plan in which we understand how the creative environment can actually feed into the joy and prosperity and well-being of everyone within our community and what better way to come together as neighbors and and experience these new works of art together. They won't be here forever, so come see them now, while you can and get to know the artist Miro.

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Monday will take place on Monday August 19th from 4:30 to 7 p.m. at the southwest corner of balsam and Broadway. More information on the Alpine balsam area plan can be found on the website. Seen on your screen, the results are in earlier this year, the city's community vitality department launched a shopper questionnaire to gather input from builders community members to better understand the city's retail base. We spoke to Sara Lee Benson about the findings.

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The citywide retail project was initiated in July of 2018 and as part of the 2015 Boulder Valley comprehensive calls for a vibrant retail base and maintaining an affordable commercial space in Boulder. Over the past year, the city has reached out to community members to better understand the city's overall retail environment. The.

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Study involved a lot of community engagement, we did a shopper survey that went out to both Boulder workers and over 6000 Boulder residents mailed to their households. We got a phenomenal response. We had over a thousand responses between the shopper survey and a retailer survey. The.

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Study provided staff, a lot of insight into builders retail base. They provided these findings to Council last month. Some.

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Of the findings that we were really interested in finding is that boulders retail is very strong. We have over 2.9 billion dollars in retail. Sales were very strong, competitively. The boulders.

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Retail is strong staff found some areas for improvement in to study. These areas are including more walkable retail to better serve its residents and workers and providing diverse goods to Boulder shoppers. We.

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Heard from the shopper survey responses that people would like more affordable clothing, a wider variety of clothing to serve Plus, Sizes men, children, the elderly, and so we're going to be looking into ways to do that. The study's next.

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Phase will be coming up with a strategy to implement goals identified by council and information collected in the studies, staff hope to come up with a strategy for implementation in 2020. We're really.

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Grateful at the participation that we've gotten from the community so far and those 1,000 responses their contribution in terms of providing us with real-time their experience in Boulder as far as their interaction with retail is really really valuable, and we hope that the community will continue to be engaged as we develop. This next step. Boulder.

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City wide retail study results can be found on the website. Seen on your screen, Boulder cemetery is making room once again for the Creekside concert series a free, family-friendly event, featuring exciting live bands, delicious food in local craft beer, boulders parks, integration department invites the whole community to attend during the boulder parks and creations free outdoor concert series in Boulder Civic area. The second event of this three part concert series will be held on Friday, August, 23rd. Three artists and bands will be part of this night.

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Songwriter Lucas Wolfe will be opening the show, with Ben hunter and Joe Siemens, bringing some banjo fun to the concert with Ron artist. The second and the truth, following right after beer, garden and music starts at 5 p.m. for more information check out the website. Seen on your screen, the bull dissociation of firefighters, iaf, f, loco 900, or bring up a good cause at upflow / e. This weekend, members from boulders Fire Rescue will be with the bulld Association of firefighters.

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For the fill the boot campaign benefiting the Muscular Dystrophy Association, the Builders Association of firefighters in MDA have partnered to create a new craft lager with upslope brewing two dollars from each pint of craft lager sold during the event and through September 17th, as well as two dollars from each limited-edition. Six-Packs sold of this collaboration brew will be donated to the MDA. The event will start at noon. This Saturday August 17th at a flow brewery, will.

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Have a fire truck there we'll have an antique fire truck there. It's fun it's family friendly, but also we want people to know that there are people in our own community right here in Boulder affected by this disease, and if we can do something to raise money and help them it's an important cause to be a part of thank.

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