Cross Creek

Cross Creek is a popular newer neighborhood located in Fountain, Colorado.  A majority of the homes were built in in the early to mid 2000s.  Cross Creek  is in School District 8.  Schools are Eagleside Elementary, Junior and High Schools are Fountain Middle School and Fountain-Fort Carson High School. Cross Creek is  south of Mesa Ridge Parkway off Fountain Mesa Road and  just minutes away from I-25 and Gate 20 at  Fort Carson.  The neighborhood has a community park and conveniently located near the Powers Corridor, you can be at any of the area’s many restaurants, entertainment  and shopping  within minutes.

As of this writing  there are currently 25 homes for sale in Cross Creek. The average price is $218,467.  The average total square footage is 2,226 sf.

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The 2,000 or so troops who will attend the Mountain Post Welcome are the first of 6,500 soldiers who will move to Fort Carson this summer. The initial group at a Fort Hood conference center showed excitement, anxiety and even resentment and anger over the move.

“There are three groups,” explained Mike Stevens as he helped patrol a Better Business Bureau booth. “The first group doesn’t want to go. The second group is excited about going. The third group is scared and unsure. That’s the biggest group.”

The Army started planning to move the 4th Infantry Division’s headquarters and its 1st Brigade Combat Team from Texas to Colorado in 2005. In a few weeks, those soldiers and their families will start moving at a rate that could top 100 per day through the summer.

Colorado Springs businesses, beset by the sagging economy, are drooling over their arrival. City leaders are planning a massive parade downtown in August to welcome the newcomers.

But on the ground in Texas, the warm feelings of Colorado Springs seemed to be doing little to offset the stress of packing for the unknown.

“You don’t want to talk to me,” said Dina Garza as she and her husband, Staff Sgt. Billy Garza, toured booths about schools and real estate. “I don’t want to go.”

Lifelong Texans, the Garzas have family in San Antonio who will be 800 miles farther away when they move to Colorado.

And while folks at Fort Hood didn’t seem to mind the sticky humidity that hung there Tuesday, many picture Colorado Springs as the Ice Age.

“I’m terrified of snow,” Dina Garza said.

The welcome event is designed to calm fears of the Colorado-bound soldiers by providing information about the community they’ll be joining.

“A lot of the younger soldiers have never (moved) before,” said Maj. Michele Thompson, who coordinated the event. “It’s stressful.”

One of the bigger worries for the troops is where to enroll their children in school. Killeen, Texas, the town next to Fort Hood, has a single school district.

“One of the things that surprises them is choice,” said Elaine Naleski, a Colorado Springs School District 11 spokeswoman who spent the day explaining the dizzying array of public, private and charter schools.

The families also wanted to know about the mountains. Fort Hood is near rolling hills, but the biggest visual feature in all directions is the horizon.

The community here is centered around Fort Hood, which is home to more than 30,0000 soldiers.

“It will be nice to be in a real city for a change,” said Capt. Lara Chapman, who has visited Colorado and said she couldn’t be happier about the move.

The biggest advantage of Colorado Springs is the opportunities – from shopping to recreation – it will give soldiers’ families, said 1st Sgt. Donald Kenney.

Happier families, he said, will mean soldiers who are better at their jobs.

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The welcome event at Fort Hood in Texas was designed to calm fears of the Colorado-bound soldiers by providing information about the community they’ll be joining.

TOM ROEDER
THE GAZETTE

Fort Carson officials unveiled options to house thousands of new troops Wednesday night, including even more growth than had already been announced.
The post is preparing an environmental impact statement on how it will deal with a planned fifth combat brigade and the possibility of a large helicopter unit.
Pentagon officials plan to house more than 30,000 soldiers at Fort Carson by 2013, an increase from 17,500 today.
A draft of the impact statement is not due out until fall.
The Army plans to build more offices, warehouses and housing units and has to figure out how it will handle issues from utilities to endangered species that could be displaced by the additional troops.
The Army added a new twist by studying the potential for about 3,000 more soldiers coming to Colorado Springs and a major overhaul of Butts Army Airfield.
“Right now we are being considered for a potential medium combat aviation brigade, that’s something that just came down recently,” said Rob Ford, who is heading the environmental impact assessment team for Fort Carson.
The helicopter unit would bring 116 helicopters, crews and maintenance personnel. The Army is apparently studying either adding a new helicopter brigade to its arsenal, or moving one here from another base.
The extra infantry brigade, announced by the Army in December, would bring 3,900 soldiers, and they would start moving to the post in 2011.
To house the units, the post is examining three sites, one near Interstate 25 on the northeast side of the post and two that lie south of the post’s main housing areas along Wilderness Road.
At a meeting on the plan at a Colorado Springs hotel, post officials turned back questioning from opponents of a massive proposed expansion of a southeast Colorado training area that the brass says is completely unrelated.
“That’s something I won’t be talking about,” said Tom Warren, who is overseeing Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site issues for the post.
Opponents of the Army’s proposed 418,000-acre expansion of the Piñon Canyon site, near Trinidad, held their own meeting before the Army confab. They say the Army is trying to pull a fast one by bringing in more troops without publically addressing its expansion desires.
“If they crowd Fort Carson with as many soldiers as they are talking about, they’ll have to grow down there,” said Tony Hass, a rancher and Piñon Canyon Expansion Opposition Coalition member who lives near the training site. “It’s connected.”
The opposition group drew more than 70 people to its meeting, while the Army’s meeting drew about 40, including more than a dozen Army employees.
Questions ranged from traffic to water rights. The Army said it will also examine whether the extra troops should come here at all.
“The evaluation of potentially not moving these units will be in the document,” Warren said.