Jul 23, 2024
Launched for the first time this year, the Colorado Lottery added a People’s Choice award to its annual Colorado Lottery Starburst awards. Panorama Park in Colorado Springs won as the #1 project by the people, with nearly 1,860 votes out of more than 16,000 submitted.
Launched for the first time this year, the Colorado Lottery added a People’s Choice award to its annual Colorado Lottery Starburst awards. Panorama Park in Colorado Springs won as the #1 project by the people, with nearly 1,860 votes out of more than 16,000 submitted. The competition for People’s Choice brought proceeds partners, municipalities, players, and the public out by the thousands to vote on their favorite Starburst Award project.
Panorama Park is a 13.5-acre park that was redesigned in 2022, thanks partly to a $350,000 Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) planning grant. GOCO’s grant and collaborative planning with RISE|Southeast and Trust for Public Land (TPL) were integral to the park’s redesign, which created more recreation opportunities for this diverse and underserved community. The $8.5 million project is now the largest recreation area near Colorado Springs.
Running June 15 - July 15, 2024, the Lottery received upwards of 500 to nearly 2,000 votes for each of the 13 Starburst Award recipients this year, and more than 40,000 people visited the website to review the projects in the running. Panorama Park beat out the San Cristobal Island project by just 52 votes. The project with the third highest votes was GOCO’s own RESTORE Colorado initiative, just another 70 votes behind.
Congratulations to Colorado Springs and Panorama Park!
