About 80 people attended last Saturday’s Community Meeting about the Proposed Heritage Square Land Exchange. If you missed that one–good news! You have another chance tonight at 5:30 to learn about the proposed Heritage Square Land Exchange.
Jeffco Open Space has received a proposal from Martin Marietta Materials for a land exchange. The exchange would deed the former 114-acre Heritage Square and the 5.7-acre Bachman property at US 40 (Colfax) and Heritage Road to JCOS. In return, JCOS would deed approximately 64 acres of Matthews/Winters Park north of I-70 and south of the existing mine, which is currently not open for public use, to Martin Marietta Materials for expansion of its operations. When mining is completed, the land will be deeded back to JCOS for park and open space purposes. Learn more….
I’ll be very interested to hear their plans for both Heritage Square and the remaining Bachman property.
Wednesday Preview:
10AM-3:30PM Community Blood Drive. The Vitalant Bus will be parked at the Golden Library. Appointments can be made in advance online at Vitalant Donor Portal using site code #5538, or call 303-363-2300.
10-11AM TriceraTOTs at Dinosaur Ridge Discovery Center, 17681 W. Alameda Pkwy (map).
5-6PM Lecture at the School of Mines: How Maps Reveal (and Conceal!) History.
6-7:30PM Lecture at the Golden History Museum: The Failed 1976 Denver Winter Olympics – Presented by Dr. Michael Childers, Assistant Professor at Colorado State University and a sixth generation Coloradan. Raised in the Fraser Valley, he grew up skiing and watching the state’s mountain towns grow into sprawling resort communities. That experience led to his first book, Colorado Powder Keg: The Ski Industry and the Modern Environmental Movement. Tracing the history of the state’s ski industry and its role in reshaping U.S. Forest Service management, the book won the International Ski Association Ullr Award and was runner-up for the Western Writers of America’s Spur Award. Childers now lives in Fort Collins, where he teaches environmental history and is a member of the Public Lands History Center.
There are still tickets available for this program, but next Monday’s program (Unconventional Women of the West) is sold out
