Pikes Peak United Way, 2-1-1 and the Family Success Center will all be closed on Monday, the 20th. If you need assistance due to weather, 2-1-1 will be checking messages regularly and will return calls to urgent messages. For more information on the upcoming cold weather, visit https://pproem.com/node/152681.

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Commissary Kitchen

United Way Community Kitchen is a fully licensed industrial commercial kitchen. We have the amenities to help your mobile retail food establishment flourish in the Colorado Springs area. This kitchen is truly community based. The money from the kitchen is poured back into Pikes Peak United Way to help us support our community in so many ways.

For more information: Russ Erbe, Kitchen Manager: erbe.russ@gmail.com

Commissary Kitchen Prices

  • Commissary Monthly Membership: $100 per month
    (Includes Letter of Commissary Agreement for Health Dept, 1 hour of kitchen use a week, fresh water, and the disposal of gray water, trash)
  • 10 hours a month = $200 (Includes 1/2 shelf of dry storage)
  • 20 hours a month = $400 (Includes 1/2 shelf of dry storage)
  • 40 hours a month = $600 (Includes 1/2 shelf of dry storage & 1/2 shelf of fridge OR freezer space)
  • Unlimited = $700 (Includes 1/2 shelf of dry storage & 1 /2 shelf of fridge OR freezer space)
  • Dry storage 1/2 shelf = $50 per month
  • Cold storage 1/2 shelf = $75
  • Free day use of walk-ins & dry storage if space is available
  • Additional hourly rate = $25
  • One-Time-Use = $35 an hour (Must have Safe Serve certificate & Insurance for the day)
Additional Requirements
  • $50 Application fee (Includes background check)
  • $200 Refundable Deposit
  • No more than 2 people in kitchen per agreement. If you need more than 2 people, additional rates apply
  • Mandatory monthly cleaning/supplies fee of $20 per tenant
  • All tenants must have a Food Safety certification as well as a $1 million liability insurance policy.

All tenants will have a credit card or bank account on file for billing.

Sliding scale for those whose needs change every month like catering: Chose a plan and when you reach the plans hourly limit, you then start paying the hourly fee of $25 until you have paid what the next plan cost is. You then will not be required to pay anymore while your hours add up to the next plan.

Amenities

  • Wifi
  • Dry Storage
  • Cold Storage
  • Freezer Storage
  • 6 burner stove with 2 ovens
  • 36-inch char broiler
  • 36-inch flattop
  • 2 Blodgett convection ovens
  • Hobart 60 qt floor mixer
  • Warming cabinet
  • Kitchen Aid 7qt professional mixer
  • Vitamix mixer/food processor
  • Restaurant quality microwave
  • 8 Prep areas
  • Kitchen tools
  • Immersion blender
  • Baking Sheets, Pots & Pans
  • Commercial high-temp dishwasher with drying racks
  • Large 3 compartment sink for washing
  • Large 2 compartment prep sink
  • Large steam table for warming
  • 3 portable induction hot plates for use on prep tables
  • Food scale
  • Ice maker
  • Hand sinks
  • Mop closet
  • Bathroom
  • Parking lot
  • Trash & Recycling dumpsters
  • Late night security
  • 24-hour surveillance cameras
  • Shared kitchen management software for reservations and billing

Lease Types

  • One-time use
  • Month-to-Month
  • 6 Month paid upfront = 10% discount
  • Annual paid upfront = 20% discount
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The Peak Progress (QLI) Report is a community effort to look at and evaluate different components of quality of life in the Pikes Peak Region. This project convenes volunteers, community members, and leaders from across the region (Vision Councils) to gather and evaluate data and create goals (referred to as “priority areas”) in various categories.

This report originated in 2007 after Howard Brooks and Jerry Smith recognized the need for benchmarking information and gathered the necessary community support and resources to publish the first edition. The 2019/2020 report seeks to move the report forward by not only focusing on indicators, but also looking for ways to take these findings and create actionable change and improve the quality of life in the Pikes Peak Region. To do this, we followed the original process of creating benchmarks by comparing the Pikes Peak Region to other regions in order to see how we are doing compared to other places in the United States, as well as looking at data over time.

This report is for anyone from a general citizen to an elected representative. Based on the foundation of community groups, networks, and resources that were assembled to develop it, this highly beneficial tool provides reliable and easy to understand data with the potential and proposed steps for actionable change.  

Commissary Kitchen

Commissary Kitchen