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Buying into Mountain Shadows
Posted: 01.04.2013 at 10:25 PM
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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- Six months after the Waldo Canyon Fire ripped through Mountain Shadows the community is rebuilding at a feverish rate.

Homes that were destroyed have been cleared, rebuilt and have now gone on the market like the home on 2275 Yankton Place.

"Probably three months ago you just had the Boyd's house going on and now you have construction going on all around it. So, it's extremely encouraging, it's coming back to life," Jim Boulton, project manager with Classic Homes said.

It took Jim Boulton and Classic Homes homebuilder just 90 days from permit to build the three bedroom two-and-a-half bathroom home.

It's just the second house on the block to be finished after the Waldo Canyon Fire.

"Certainly it's more than vegetation, certainly it's more than houses it's the story about people and family and we want to be apart of planting our lives with those new families and new neighbors," Tom Yeakley, a new Mountain Shadows homeowner said.

Tom and his wife Dana Yeakley have fond memories of Mountain Shadows, it's where they first lived when they moved to Colorado Springs, and it's where they're returning to.

Though the fire was traumatic Waldo Canyon Fire is part of our community story and this couple wants to be apart of the next chapter.

"Pleasantly surprised to see not only how the community there in mountain Shadows is pulling together but how the community across Colorado Springs is just coming and supporting, in many different ways," Dana Yeakley, a new Mountain Shadows homeowner said.

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