COLORADO SPRINGS – —A group of downtown business leaders is pushing Colorado Springs Utilities to study the possibility of retiring the coal-fired Martin Drake Power Plant in southwest downtown.
The massive facility, whose billowing clouds of steam can often be seen from miles away, is an impediment to economic development and a plan to turn Fountain Creek into an amenity for downtown, longtime businessman Richard Skorman said Wednesday.
“If nothing else, it’s our viewscape and this incredibly beautiful community situated at the foot of Pikes Peak with a power plant cooking its boilers in the middle of the view,” he said. “It has an impact and people wouldn’t know what it was until it was gone.”
Skorman, a leader of the group asking for the study, said the group hopes Utilities will embark on a community conversation before investing more money in the power plant.
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