GILPIN COUNTY — The Central City  Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) approved with conditions an amended request by G3 Gaming, LLC (G3) at their September 22, 2026, meeting. G3 had asked to remove or relocate historic structures and rock walls so that they can proceed with their Gregory Gulch Gaming Resort Project.

Central City Council will schedule a vote to ratify the amended request at a future council meeting.

The vote was 3-2 in favor of the amended request with conditions. HPC Chair David Forsyth, Jeremy Kaiser, and James Everett voted for the request. Shawn Connelly and Chelby Shofner opposed the request, while Chuck Webster was absent.

 Shane Reilly with the G3 Gaming Group and Alexandr Sheykhet with Obermeier/Sheykhet Architecture, Inc. presented the amended request to the commission and answered questions from the commissioners about the individual properties and structures that would be demolished, removed, or relocated.

The request was originally presented and discussed at the previous HPC meeting. Central City staff worked with G3 to amend the request with conditions for the September 22 meeting.

G3 agreed to create a “Historic Discovery Lane” that would feature the reconstruction or relocation of existing historic structures within the overall development and accessible to the public. The Freemasons Commemorative Monument, Power Plant Ruins, and some dry rock walls would be relocated to the Historic Discovery Lane.

Rockwall at the back of the Power Plant Ruins that will be relocated to the Historic Discovery Lane public access area at the Gregory Gulch Gaming Resort. The house across the road is at 341 Gregory, also slated for removal.

Photo by Wes Isenhart

One of the conditions attached to the request was to prevent demolition of some houses along Gregory Street until April 2027 to give more time to find a place to move them.

Forsyth wrote in an email that "This is an outcome that none of us wanted and we believed that every effort would be made to move the buildings to a new location.  As the G3 people showed, those efforts hadn't paid off.

"As I said at the meeting, I felt this was going to happen with or without us, because if we denied the request city council could overturn our decision and go forward with it.

"I felt that allowing it with the conditions that we put on it was the best way to make sure that the buildings were documented before they are demolished, that salvageable pieces of the buildings would be available to other residents to use in their restorations, and that the park with the history walk would be publicly available.

"I think we're also hopeful that the prohibition on tearing them down before next April will give time for someone with a plan to save them to come along.”

G3 also agreed to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with Central City to provide regular funding for ongoing preservation projects within the city.

For all the volunteers on the HPC, the core issue was how to preserve the past while building for the future.

Forsyth wrote “Ultimately, we had to make a hard decision based on our interpretations of the historic preservation guidelines and the economic future of Central City and hope that we made the best decision we could under the circumstances.”

For more information about the Central City Historic Preservation Commission visit centralcity.colorado.gov/historic-preservation-commission or contact City Hall at 303-582-5251.