Email Author Andy Van De Voorde

1994 Stories by Andy Van De Voorde

• HELICOPTER 54, WHERE ARE YOU?

  published December 7, 1994

  Looking back on her standoff with a military helicopter on the plains of eastern El Paso County this fall, Mary Blake wishes she'd had more... More >>

• THE LITTLE RAILROAD THAT SAID IT COULD

  published November 30, 1994

  The tiny Denver Rock Island Railroad doesn't have a cowcatcher on its lone diesel locomotive, but it may need one soon. The obscure,... More >>

• RUBBLE WITH A CAUSEARE THE CITY'S PLANS FOR ANCIENT COBBLESTONES PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS?

  published November 23, 1994

  City work crews are unearthing hundreds of century-old paving stones as part of street resurfacing projects in booming lower downtown. They're... More >>

• GREEN GROSSERS

  published November 16, 1994

  Richard Iannacito sells nothing but tomatoes at his family business on Cook Street. After years in the trade, he still answers his own phone and... More >>

• INFLUENCE BACKPEDDLING

  published November 9, 1994

  The roller coaster and Ferris wheel for the relocated Elitch Gardens amusement park in downtown Denver are going up quickly--but the lobbying firm... More >>

• STAPLETON'S LATEST DELAY

  published November 2, 1994

  A real estate deal touted by Denver city officials as key to the redevelopment of Stapleton International Airport suffered another blow last week... More >>

• REACH FOR THE SKY

  published September 28, 1994

  Denver airport officials have been wooing financially troubled MarkAir with a $30 million loan guarantee backed by aviation fuel-tax money. But... More >>

• IT'S 11 P.M. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR FUNDING IS?

  published September 14, 1994

  Denver mayor Wellington Webb has defended his decision to locate a detention center for juvenile curfew violators in upscale Washington Park by... More >>

• THIS LITTLE CITY WENT TO MARKET

  published September 7, 1994

  King Soopers, the grocery chain Denver city officials touted last summer as the anchor tenant for a redeveloped Stapleton International Airport,... More >>

• BY THE SEAT OF THEIR PANTS

  published August 31, 1994

  City of Denver airport officials are continuing to woo financially troubled MarkAir--this time with a deal that could give the Anchorage-based... More >>

• THE PLOT THICKENS

  published August 10, 1994

  On the surface, the battle for the Denver Botanic Gardens is nothing if not polite. The genteel institution on York Street has long been the pet... More >>

• THE ALASKAN PIPELINE

  published August 10, 1994

  MarkAir, the Anchorage-based airline Denver officials hope to woo to Colorado with a $30 million incentive package, has a history of financial... More >>

• THE $1 MILLION MAN

  published July 27, 1994

  Denver Mayor Wellington Webb's Safe City Summit began last fall with a simple goal: to keep youth violence in check during the summer of 1994 by... More >>

• THE ART OF FACILITATION

  published May 11, 1994

  A woman on Mayor Wellington Webb's Black Advisory Council has received more than $47,000 in no-bid city contracts over the past fifteen... More >>

• STORM OVER WINTER PARK

  published May 4, 1994

  The controversial Winter Park Recreation Association went a long way toward smoothing over its frosty relations with the City of Denver last week.... More >>

• OFF TRACK

  published March 23, 1994

  Construction delays at Denver International Airport have grounded a key DIA side project: the "Air Train," the city's sole attempt at providing... More >>

• MALL ABOARD!

  published February 23, 1994

  Change never has been especially welcome at Denver Union Station, the gray stone landmark at the base of 17th Street whose sunlit great hall still... More >>

• GOING FOR BROKE

  published February 16, 1994

  Former Cherry Hills Village developer Bill Wall has never lacked for chutzpah. Last year the unflappable socialite convinced a federal judge that... More >>

• WATCH OUT FOR THOSE MOGULS!

  published February 2, 1994

  Denver deputy mayor Bruce Alexander, the city's chief negotiator in the Winter Park deal, is the ski area's former banker--a tie that has remained... More >>

• Elitch'S Secret Ride

  published January 12, 1994

  Elitch Gardens has done its best to keep the financial details of its star-crossed move from northwest Denver to the Central Platte Valley... More >>