The Cheyenne Mayor's Minute From Mayor Patrick Collins

Cheyenne WY

22 March, 2022

6:03 AM

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Press release from the City of Cheyenne: March 18, 2022 CHEYENNE – "I think this is my favorite sports weekend of the year. March Madness is such a great event. It gives the little guys from small conferences a chance to beat the blue bloods of basketball, and every year some do. Watching 12-seed Richmond beat 5-seed Iowa, 12-seed New Mexico State beat 5-seed University of Connecticut, and especially the 15-seed Saint Peter's beating 2-seed Kentucky made my Thursday. I look forward to these games every year. One disappointment is the Mountain West lost all four games, including our beloved Cowboys. Looking forward to the rest of the tournament. We have discussed our city council goals for this year. A big one is the construction of a gymnastics building. As a reminder, our current facility is going to be torn down by the school district to allow a new grade school to be built. Our Community Recreation and Events (CRE) team stopped by to give me an update on our progress and timeline. Our current plan is to build the gymnastics facility next to the Ice and Events Center. We are delayed due to the need for regional detention in the Hitching Post development area. We discussed if there is a better place to build that would allow the project to begin sooner. We do have a safety net; the school district may have located a temporary site for our program. It seems like I have lunch with Councilmen Laybourn and Segrave about once a month. It is a time to catch up and talk about what is going on in the city. I really look forward to these opportunities, but this time I came away with a to-do list with 19 items to follow up on. Whew! The Hynds building was on the schedule again this week. I joined a Zoom meeting with the folks that were thinking about building a boutique hotel in the Hynds/Hole location. The hotel franchisers have decided the walk from the parking garage to the site is too long for the hotel to be successful. Good news is the team has pivoted to using the Hynds as a mixed use, with parking in the hole and housing being built vertically above. After 40 years of the Hynds being empty, and the hole vacant for 19 years now, we need to find a partner to make this project happen." This press release was produced by the City of Cheyenne. The views expressed here are the author's own.