Megan Cloherty is an Investigative Journalist with KOAA News5 in Colorado Springs.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The final phase of reclamation is underway at the PikeView Quarry on the northwest side of Colorado Springs. Mayor Yemi Mobolade visited the site for the first time Thursday and saw the first trees planted on land that used to be a working mine.
Jerry Schnabel works for Castle Aggregates, a subsidiary of Riverbend Industries. He has overseen the transformation here for more than two decades. "If at that point in time, our city leadership accepts it, then we'll move forward the public process so that we can start to understand what that opportunity might be and hear the concerns the vision, the ideas, and really just a wide spectrum of that from the community," David Deitemeyer, the city's landscape architect, said the popular choice in a 2014 survey was to turn this into a mountain bike park.
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