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Located at the mouth of the Roaring Fork Valley, Glenwood Springs has faced growing pressure on its housing stock over the last decade, driven in part by rising costs up valley...
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When local leaders from the Town of Eagle attended Community Builders’ Leadership Training in 2015, they were searching for ways...
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Hamilton, MT: Six Years Later
In the wide open spaces of the west, cities are often defined by their quaint downtowns and the routes that connect them to the next urban area...
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At first glance, the coal counties of Northern Arizona and the movie “Moneyball” have very little in common...
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Five years after the City of Alamosa and its partners attended our Building Better Places Training (BBP), this mindset still permeates City Hall.
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Community engagement is necessary to the success of community planning and project implementation, and the data collected through this process serves as both...
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In June 2025, Community Builders completed a three year contract for The Colorado Affordable Housing Toolkit for Local Officials (“Toolkit”). 
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Many of the challenges facing Colorado’s mountain communities, such as housing shortages, rising cost of living, and cultural division, transcend jurisdictional lines...
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In her own words, Annika is a yogi, trail runner, mother, and backyard chicken keeper with a thriving garden. A Telluride ex-pat, she sought out Norwood for its deep-rooted values.
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Between September and December 2024, the Community Builders team made five trips to Norwood, Naturita, and Nucla, the three incorporated communities in the “West End” of...
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Coal transition is an enormous challenge for impacted communities. These often small, rural communities have excelled at one thing for decades…
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