The 1960s and 1970s single-family homes around Campus West are the classic Fort Collins mid-century story: original furnaces long past their life, many homes still on first-generation central AC or evaporative coolers that cannot keep up on 95°F stretches, and good heat-pump-conversion candidates on Fort Collins Utilities electric [INFERENCE]. The other half of the area is student housing — high turnover, landlord-driven “no-heat / no-cool” calls, rooftop packaged units and through-wall systems, and summer move-in AC failures. The student-housing angle, with property managers rather than homeowners as the customer, is unique to Campus West. There is no historic district here; the area is post-war homes plus student infill, and the nearest historic fabric is CSU's own campus and the Westside to the north.
Area status: OFFICIAL — West Central Neighborhoods Plan (adopted 16 March 1999) Campus West is the community-commercial node inside the West Central Neighborhoods Plan area — an “L”-shaped area of about three square miles west, south-west and south of CSU. The exact Campus West sub-boundary has not been verified from a City source, so this page uses the street anchors, not a drawn map.
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The parent plan area runs from Mulberry Street in the north to Drake Road in the south, the BNSF railroad tracks in the east to Taft Hill Road in the west. Landmarks are CSU Main Campus and Canvas Stadium to the east, Town Square Shopping Center on West Elizabeth Street, City Park Avenue corridor and the Spring Creek Trail. Student condo and apartment complexes have HOAs or management companies; no single Campus West HOA exists, so we do not name one — check your HOA covenants or your property manager's rules before moving exterior equipment.
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