Subject: Economic Development

• A Nobel Calling

  October 13, 2006

• A Development Grows in Jefferson Park

  May 1, 2007

• Denver Style Makes the New York Times. Yawn.

  May 21, 2007

• Step Up the Fight Against Global Warming

  December 4, 2007

• Upcoming DNC roundtable: lotsa ugly politicians and a smokin' hot celeb

  August 21, 2008

• Upcoming DNC roundtable: lotsa ugly politicians and a smokin' hot celeb

  August 21, 2008

• In West Washington Park, a battle over monster duplexes and neighborhood character

  October 16, 2008

• A Tough Read

  The City Park West Gazette chooses its battles -- lots of them.

  September 14, 2000

• From Tosh's Hacienda to Kiva to Club Dynasty

  October 24, 2008

• Wake-Up Call: Looking for work is hard work

  Today is officially Keep Colorado Working day – but where, exactly, are people supposed to be working? Yesterday, Intrawest Corporation– which runs Winter Park and owns Steamboat and Copper Mountain – announced companywide cuts. (Happy opening day, Winter Park!) And here in town, longtime businesses are looking at layoffs – and worse – as holiday sales fail to materialize. Colorado leaders know that the immediate outlook is grim, which is why Governor Bill Ritter last week announ

  November 20, 2008

• Wake-Up Call: The week ahead, November 24-30

  It's the economy, stupid. While chairmen of the Big Three auto-makers jetted by private plane to Washington, D.C., looking for a handout last week, hundreds of out-of-work Coloradans lined up before each prospective employer at job fairs across the state last Thursday. And on Saturday, 40,000 people descended on a Weld County field to glean the last of a harvest. Which all explains why Colorado Senate President Peter Groff and Speaker-designee Terrance Carroll aren't waiting for the next legisl

  November 24, 2008

• West Wash Park rezoning fight gains steam

  In October, we introduced you to  the battle over monster duplexes and neighborhood character in West Washington Park. Now, as a December 15 City Council hearing approaches, the controversy is exploding into a debate over the future of development in Denver's older neighborhoods. Some residents in West Washington Park want to rezone a portion of their neighborhood to allow only single-family homes. They're tired of watching small bungalows get scraped and replaced by monstrous duplexes, w

  December 5, 2008

• Architect Peter Dominick dead at 67

  Denver architect Peter Dominick suffered a fatal heart attack on New Year's Day while he was cross-country skiing near Aspen, where he frequently vacationed. A prominent figure in the local architectural community, he was from an equally prominent family: his late father was a Colorado senator, also named Peter Dominick, who served from 1963 to 1975. Growing up in Colorado, the younger Dominick became interested in architecture early on. He received his undergraduate degree in architecture fr

  January 2, 2009

• Best place to get a haircut after you get tattooed, pierced

  June 29, 2000

• Letters to the Editor

  July 18, 2002

• They're Not Columbine Knolls

  Jefferson County struggles to find a place for its sex offenders.

  June 15, 2000

• Bamako

  This “festival film” puts globalization on trial.

  June 21, 2007

• Letters to the Editor

  Letters from the week of 8/21/2008

  August 21, 2008

• Hideous Houses of Highland

  More is not merrier for Highland homeowners who want to stop construction in their neighborhoods.

  May 1, 2008

• Tom "The Troubleshooter" Martino's troublesome buildings are still standing

  April 23, 2009

• Moving On Up

  Jefferson Park is being touted as the next Highland, and developers are taking notice -- but not all of the attention is appreciated.

  March 22, 2007

• Shoot to Chill

  Beyond and Spy are outta here with a bullet.

  April 13, 2006

• Creative Thinking

  Denver gets down to business about the arts.

  July 21, 2005

• Building for the Future

  Peter Park is in the urban-planning game for good.

  January 6, 2005

• The Apes of Wrath

  It takes a village to raze a Chinese restaurant.

  January 15, 2004

• Between a Block and a Hard Place

  Not everyone wants Curtis Park to grow up.

  October 30, 2003

• Property Values

  The feisty Congress Park neighborhood may have met its match in a new developer.

  August 16, 2001

• You Can't Go Home Again

  Especially when someone has leveled your childhood home to make room for two more.

  November 2, 2000

• How to Build a Ghetto

  Everyone said they wanted homeless people to be invisible at Lowry. So why aren't they?

  June 8, 2000

• Don't Be Dense

  A Denver neighborhood fights city hall and wins -- for now.

  April 20, 2000

• All the World's an Empty Stage

  For the locked-out founder of Eulipions, the play’s still the thing.

  January 6, 2000

• Playtime Is Over

  Parents in northwest Denver finally got their school -- or did they?

  December 16, 1999

• A Rough Road Ends in Jeffco

  A proposed quarry gets bulldozed by irate residents.

  November 18, 1999

• Big Boss Man

  Jim Hannifin commands a ready-made urban army—and he keeps winning his battles.

  November 4, 1999

• Hell, No, They Won't Grow

  Boulder property owners worry that the county's slow-growth policies have become no-growth policies.

  September 9, 1999

• Hell, No, We Won't Grow!

  A new bill proposes leaving rural areas openand developed areas denser than your average pro-growth legislator.

  January 14, 1999

• Worse Than a Pledge Drive

  A southeast Denver neighborhood howls about a public-TV station's profit-making development proposal.

  February 26, 1998

• Another Fight on Colfax

  Plans to spruce up the old street lead to a business squabble.

  June 5, 1997

• Neighborhood Botch

  Squabbles over money plague one of Denver's Oldest neighborhoods.

  December 12, 1996

• Bridges to Nowhere

  Emblems of a bulldozing era, downtown's skybridges become a sore point.

  March 14, 1996

• FOR YOUR AMUSEMENT

  THE CITY IS UP TO ITS NECK IN THE OLD ELITCH'S--AND NOW IT'S CLAMMING UP.QUEASY RIDERS THE BATTLE OVER THE OLD ELITCH'S THROWS A CITY COUNCILMAN--AND HIS CONSTITUENTS--FOR A LOOP.

  July 19, 1995

• UNECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

  DID A SQUABBLE WITH COLORADO SPRINGS COST FORT COLLINS $300 MILLION?

  September 7, 1994

• WEST SIDE STORY

  THE MAYOR'S RACE IS HEATING UP--AND SO IS THE BATTLE FOR THE HISPANIC VOTE.

  August 24, 1994

• HOTEL RESERVATIONS

  THE CITY OF DENVER HAS SUNK MORE THAN $2 MILLION INTO THE HISTORIC ROSSONIAN HOTEL. BUT CHECK OUT ITS ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT PLAN.

  July 6, 1994

• Why did Coors Field buy the old Light Bulb Supply building?

  2010 Delgany, once a potential view-blocker, was recently bought by Coors Field Rockies fans will no longer have to worry about their view of the mountains from Coors Field becoming obstructed by a possible high-rise condo building. The special district that owns the baseball stadium quietly purchased the former Light Bulb Supply building at 2010 Delgany Street for $2.4 million earlier this month, ending fears that a 140-foot building could be built on the site just west of the left stands. T

  April 30, 2009

• Not-So-New Urbanism: Bradburn Village

  Church, steeple, but where are all the people at Bradburn? The Congress for the New Urbanism is holding its annual conference in Denver June 10-14, complete with bus tours of our most well-known new urbanist enclaves. But how do you judge walkable, neighborhood-based developments? Is it by the diversity (or lack thereof) of their residents, the number of parks nearby, their stumbling distance to a local watering hole? Over the next few days, we'll explore and judge -- oh yes, judge -- six of th

  June 10, 2009

• Coors Field again asking for a law to preserve its mountain view -- and maybe get some more parking lots too

  Denver Planning DepartmentThe angle city officials are using to determine the proposed Coors Field view plane. The entity that owns Coors Field is pursuing a view-plane ordinance that would prevent the construction of buildings that might block the view of the mountains from stadium seats -- and not for the first time. A similar proposal in 2007 was dropped after controversy arose over property rights. Ray Baker, director of the Metropolitan Major League Baseball Stadium District, says such l

  June 11, 2009

• Columnist chronicles Denver's New Urbanism conference on the Huffington Post

  Photo by Jonathan ShikesThe new-urbanist enclave of Highlands' Garden Village. Last week, the Congress for the New Urbanism held its annual conference in Denver -- an event we commemorated with examinations of Bradburn Village, Highlands' Garden Village and several other New Urbanist developments in the city; find them in our Not-So-New Urbanism archive. As for the conference itself, the issues debated there are currently being chronicled on the Huffington Post by Frank Gruber, a columnist for

  June 17, 2009

• Stranahan's gets ready to toast its new building

  After two months of moving - and twelve- to fifteen-hour work days - Jess Graber, Jake Norris and the rest of the Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey crew are just about up and running in their new digs inside the former Heavenly Daze Brewery at 200 South Kalamath Street. And they've leased out the restaurant space on the ground floor of the building to Eric Warner, former president of the Flying Dog Brewery and current owner of the Barking Goat Tavern, which opened at 363 Village Square Lane in Cas

  June 30, 2009

• Who is the city laying off to balance its budget?

  ​Today marks the last day of work for 176 city employees who were laid off in order to help close a $160 million gap in Denver's budget. (Read this Denver Post story by reporter Christopher Osher for more.) Most of the layoffs -- the equivalent of 108.5 positions -- occurred in two city departments: the Office of Economic Development and Denver Human Services. Those departments were hit harder because more of their funding comes from federal sources, which are declining, rather than the

  November 13, 2009