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Seeking 'something special'

Bill Vogrinennifer Speer and Marianne Horvath live on opposite sides of the Cragmor neighborhood, and each is staring down the barrel of large apartment buildings proposed by private, out-of-state developers to house students at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.Neither woman is thrilled by the projects taking aim on Cragmor, a community of 3,500 modest homes that neighbors say is rapidly transitioning from a quiet, family area into a haven for hard-partying college students in rentals.As longtime residents die or move, investors are converting homes to rentals, responding to demand for student housing as UCCS' enrollment has exploded to about 11,200 and dormitory construction has failed to keep up.

 

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