Denver Business Journal

Photos: 300 Blockbusters closing in weeks, no word yet how many in Colorado

Last August, Governor John Hickenlooper joined Blockbuster President Michael Kelly and other dignitaries to celebrate the relocation of the video firm's headquarters to Douglas County -- a move that came with the company's pledge to bring 150 jobs to Colorado over the next five years. (See photos fr ... More >>

James W. Faber, alleged fraud fighter, indicted for $2 million worth of fraud

In a press release from a few years back, James W. Faber portrayed himself as a crusader on behalf of individuals who'd been defrauded. Which is interesting, not to mention ironic, given that he's just been indicted in absentia on charges that include multiple counts of (you guessed it) fraud. Get ... More >>

Photos: Union Station is transforming from sleepy train stop to multi-modal hub

It's been thirty years since Denver's 16th Street Mall opened for business, and this week's cover story "It's a Mall World After All!," takes a look at the attraction's past, present and future. That future includes new life for Denver Union Station, the 131-year-old train station at the west end of ... More >>

Pasquini's will open a pizzeria and bar in the old J.R.'s space

Three months after the Uptown Pasquini's turned into a Serioz, the Denver Business Journal announced that Tony Pasquini had inked a deal on the old two-story Uptown building that most recently held J.R.'s Bar and Grill, making good on his plan to return to the neighborhood.

Reader: Trader Joe's at Eighth and Colorado is all kinds of wrong

On Friday the Denver Business Journal broke the news that Trader Joe's would be opening its second store at Eighth and Colorado Boulevard. (The first -- which means the one that also gets to sell liquor under Colorado's convoluted code -- will debut next year in Boulder's Twenty Ninth Street develop ... More >>

Trader Joe's to open second Colorado store on Eighth Avenue

Trader Joe's has signed a deal for its first location in Denver, according to this story in the Denver Business Journal. The store will be on the southeast corner of Colorado Boulevard and Eighth Avenue, where Annie's Cafe was once located. The spot was supposed to become a hotel, but like so many ... More >>

What the Frack?!: Grassroots group pushes for fracking moratorium in Arapahoe County

The first time Sonia Skakich-Scrima learned about fracking, she was reading the Denver Business Journal almost a year ago to date. What she read alarmed her, but what she Googled afterward tripled that. "I tried to understand why we didn't care about the environment or the aftermath," she says. "I ... More >>

Tom Martino bankruptcy: Troubleshooter sues bank, may accuse Fox31 of wrongful termination

Update: Another day, another development in Troubleshooter Tom Martino's bankruptcy. The latest? Martino is suing the bank that floated the possibility he'd shifted assets in his filing -- and he hints in court paperwork that he may whack Fox31, the station that employed him until this summer, with ... More >>

CenturyLink to leave HQ building less than year after replacing Qwest's blue light with its logo?

Big pics below.​Update below: It's barely been a month since CenturyLink finished replacing Qwest's blue light with its own logo at 1801 California Street, one of the most familiar structures in downtown Denver. Now come reports that the company may be vacating the building less than a year f ... More >>

Fracking contamination "inconceivable," says John Hickenlooper -- but EPA disagrees

​Governor John Hickenlooper has walked a taut tightrope on energy issues since taking office, pushing for more natural gas drilling in a state already leading the region in drilling starts, while at the same time nudging the industry toward greater disclosure of the chemicals used in hydraulic ... More >>

Colorado beer calendar: #IPAday; Bull & Bush turns forty; Euclid Hall turns one

Facebook​ Bristol Brewing of Colorado Springs has made an amazing 6,000 batches of beer since owner Mike Bristol founded the place back in 1994 (and that doesn't include the home brew he cooked up in his dorm room at Colorado State University in the late 1980s). A momentous occasion? You bet, ... More >>

Denver Paid Sick Days Initiative backers hope Michael Hancock will reconsider his opposition

​This week, proponents of the Denver Paid Sick Leave Initiative turned in more than triple the number of signatures needed to make the ballot. But they face plenty of obstacles, including the newly announced opposition of mayor-elect Michael Hancock.

Gil Spencer, R.I.P.: Neil Westergaard remembers legendary Denver Post editor

Gil Spencer in a 1992 Denver Post photo.​Gil Spencer, former editor of the Denver Post, who died early this morning at the age of 85, was a rarity: a veteran journalist who was beloved by one and all -- and especially by the people with whom he once worked. That's certainly true of Neil Weste ... More >>

Colorado's No. 1 in fraud complaints: Greeley, Boulder, Fort Collins & CO Springs in top 15

​Statistics compiled by the Federal Trade Commission show that Colorado had the highest per-capita rate of consumer fraud complaints in the nation last year. According to the FTC's Consumer Sentinel Network report for 2010, Greeley, Boulder, Fort Collins and Colorado Springs all ranked among t ... More >>

Wild Eggs is coming to Colorado

​It's not all bourbon and KFC. Kentucky may know a thing or two about food after all, and it's bringing its know-how to Colorado. Wild Eggs, a Louisville-based breakfast super-mini-chain with Colorado roots is expanding into the state in the near future, according to the Denver Business Journ ... More >>

Quiznos is now serving breakfast...at gas stations

​Mmmm ... breakfast subs? That's right: Denver-based sub chain Quiznos is now serving up brekkie, including sandwiches, cinnamon rolls and sausage and egg biscuits. But there's a caveat: The new items are available at Quiznos gas station locations only. Sexy! "Building and operating locatio ... More >>

Frontier Airlines naming announcement: Will it be No. 1?

An image from Frontier's flashy media-announcement notice.​For weeks, there's been speculation aplenty about whether or not Frontier Airlines, purchased last year by Republic Airways Holdings, will be keeping its name and identity when combined with new sister carrier Midwest Airlines. First, ... More >>

How the chili cook-off was won (by Westword)

Tonight: Eat chili with your favorite media members at this Women's Bean Project fundraiser at the Denver Press Club

​The weather is warming up, but it will be chili - very chili - inside the Denver Press Club tonight when a couple dozen members of the media put down their pens and pick up ladles for a chili cook-off benefiting the Women's Bean Project. The 5th Annual Celebrity Chili Cook-off is a hotly-con ... More >>

Colorado's renewable energy market set to heat up with BLM geothermal leases

A geothermal electric plant in Iceland​Wind energy has been a hot commodity in the state for ten years or more now, but a new source of energy -- geothermal -- is about to get a chance to make its mark in the near future. The Denver Business Journal is reporting that the BLM is set to offer le ... More >>

Denver gets $6 million in stimulus money to go green

Getting greener all the time​ While it isn't nearly as cool as neighboring Boulder going all "city of the future" (and yes, we are jealous, thanks for asking), Denver is getting its own energy improvements in the form of a $6 million dollar stimulus check, reports the Denver Business Journal. ... More >>

Boulder: City of the future!

The Boulder of tomorrow?​According to this report by the Denver Business Journal, it looks like Boulder is all set to become the wonderful world of tomorrow that we were all promised by cheap paperback novels and the old Buck Rogers TV series! Okay, so it doesn't mention flying cars or robot b ... More >>

UNC receives $1.7 million to increase women in tech/science faculty nationwide

​The Denver Business Journal reported today that the University of Northern Colorado has received a $1.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation to lead a nationwide effort to add and keep female faculty in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math. The money will fund ... More >>

Southwest still shopping after losing Frontier

Southwest CEO Gary Kelly.​All signs pointed to Southwest Airlines purchasing Frontier -- but despite Southwest CEO Gary Kelly's optimistic projections in the days before an auction for the Denver-based carrier, a breakdown in labor talks with Frontier pilots presaged an unlikely victory by Rep ... More >>

How to avoid losing your job through social media

A message from the folks at happyworker.com​The social media world was abuzz yesterday after a survey commissioned by CareerBuilder.com reported that 45 percent of HR professionals are looking at your social media profiles before deciding to hire you. Well, duh. We've been hearing reports o ... More >>

Denver gains another wind energy company

Photo by Bodoklecksel​Denver's burgeoning alternative-energy industry will get a boost this September when formerly Portland, Orgeon-based wind energy company REpower USA Corp. moves its headquarters to Denver. The Denver Business Journal reports that the company, the U.S. subsidiary of Germa ... More >>

Senator Morgan Carroll tries to explain Pinnacol

Senator Morgan Carroll.​Senator Morgan Carroll, an Aurora Democrat who heads the interim committee looking into the 800-pound gorilla known as Pinnacol Assurance, knows plenty about the enterprise, which the Denver Business Journal describes as a "state political subdivision that operates as a ... More >>

Could Colorado be the engine that drives the electric-car revolution?

​Ever since I gave up on my dream of a flying car, I've been waiting for the next best thing: an electric one. Sure, it lacks the sexiness of a my Jetsons-fueled childhood fantasy. But on the other hand, I don't have to learn to fly and my kids may actually inherit a planet that's livable -- s ... More >>

Denver manufacturing job losses: We're 45th!

A Flickr photo​Throughout the ongoing economic downturn, the Denver Business Journal has tried to look for upbeat stories to counterbalance the most dismal reports. But one of the latest has a small nugget of compensation built in. "Denver Loses 6,900 Manufacturing Jobs in Five Years" puts its ... More >>

Denver Blogs: Raising expectations

A Flickr photo​ We're in search of the perfect blog. Point us to any that come close. Three out of four Denver companies are allegedly going to offer raises this year. And my name is Cleopatra, Queen of Denial. (5280, with an assist from the Denver Business Journal) The founder of the Cesar ... More >>

If you're reading this in your pajamas, there may be hope yet

Psst. Hey lady. Grab your resume. There may be hope for you after all. The number of Colorado companies executing large numbers of jobs at once is falling, the Denver Business Journal reports this morning, a sign that slightly less sucky times may lie ahead: (T)he number of Colorado workers le ... More >>

Sengers files for Chapter 7

This could have been the quietest closing in town: Sengers on the Fax filed for Chapter 7 on July8, according to a legal notice in today's Denver Business Journal. The watering hole at 3014 East Colfax Avenue got off to a fast start when it opened two years ago, but the phone's now disconnected. ... More >>

McDonald's ranks Denver the sixth best city -- whatever that means

The Denver Business Journal posted this little ditty earlier today, reporting that McDonald's -- a national hamburger chain known for helping our children get super fat for decades -- considers Denver one of America's happiest cities for families. I have absolutely no idea what this means -- I can ... More >>

Denver-based DigitalGlobe can see your house -- and it's making a mint doing it

DigitalGlobe When you want to stalk someone but Facebook and parking outside their house for hours with binoculars just aren't doing it for you, how about buying high-resolution images of their neighborhood as taken by satellites? Sure, you could just get an image off of Google Maps, but if you wan ... More >>

Report: Computer geeks sitting pretty -- or at least not that ugly -- in the Colorado job market

"I know my way around these babies. I'll be fine." Good news for at least some job seekers: The Denver Business Journal reported today that a recent survey by ConsultNet, an IT and engineering staffing agency, shows that 25 percent of surveyed companies expect to hire more IT and engineering staff ... More >>

Denver drivers are the 13th least courteous in the U.S.? Say that again and we'll run you down!

Photo by Alan Clark In a February blog, the Denver Business Journal's Neil Westergaard talked about the need for positive stories in these tough economic times -- and a DBJ article about a just-released driving survey by AutoVantage certainly qualifies. The piece focuses on the fact that Denver tie ... More >>

Foreclosure? Even the "Sleeper House" feels the pinch

Charles Deaton's masterpiece. Photo courtesy the Kentwood Company. Nobody and no property, it seems, are immune from the housing crisis. According to this report in the Denver Business Journal, one of Colorado's most distinctive residences was headed for foreclosure this spring, and then it wasn't. ... More >>

Does a new Channel 4/Denver Business Journal collaboration say anything about the Rocky Mountain News?

This morning brought a press release announcing "Beating the Recession," a new series jointly reported by Channel 4 and the Denver Business Journal. Pretty standard stuff overall, but the parties involved may be meaningful in terms of the area's shifting media landscape. After all, Channel 4's lon ... More >>

Voices

Untangling a proposed alternative-weekly mega-merger.

The Message

Stripped

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Vision Quest

Go West, Young Women

Colorado's Women of the West Museum packs its virtual bags for California.

Show Them the Money

The business of writing about business can be mighty profitable these days.

Off Limits

Saying goodbye to one of Denver's more interesting journalists.

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A rocky week...

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