Deep in the bowels of Denver International Airport, in the underground chamber that houses the notorious $218.5 million automated baggage system, sits a woman with perhaps the most mind-numbing job in Denver. Perched on a metal chair in a mile-long tunnel that looks as wide as a four-lane highway, she…
The destruction of a historic 17th Street hotel to make way for a parking lot has many wondering if Mayor Wellington Webb’s vaunted commitment to preserving Denver’s heritage is just another blast of hot air. With Denver’s downtown real estate market heating up, the demolition of other historic buildings suddenly…
Pat Bowlen has a problem. The multi-millionaire owner of the Denver Broncos says his team needs more revenue. And the Broncos’ public relations machine is already shifting into gear, preparing a campaign to convince taxpayers they should open their wallets and chip in $180 million to build the men in…
Denver officials are struggling to find the money to build a sixth runway at Denver International Airport. But one longtime political ally of Mayor Wellington Webb has had no problem landing her own DIA revenue stream. Wilma Taylor, a veteran political activist and Webb campaign worker, will soon be appointed…
Spurred by a recent double-digit drop in traffic at Denver International Airport, city officials are exploring the use of a controversial carrot to lure discount carrier Southwest Airlines: a subsidy funded by the state aviation fuel tax. Mayor Wellington Webb and aviation director Jim DeLong will travel to Southwest’s Texas…
Late last month a smiling Edward Beauvais appeared at the Colorado Springs Airport in a wizard’s costume to announce his Western Pacific Airline’s new $59 “mystery trip” fares. To Beauvais’s many Colorado Springs admirers, the sorcerer’s garb was appropriate. For civic boosters in Colorado Springs, after all, the last seven…
Colorado’s fast-growing wine industry revels in the image of romantic Western Slope vineyards and tasting rooms perched on mesas. But a nasty dispute has many Colorado vintners treating one of the state’s largest wineries like a jug of Ripple at a society soiree. Rick Turley, owner of the Palisade-based Colorado…
The Jitters coffeehouse in lower downtown bills itself as Denver’s first “on-line cafe,” offering customers hourly rental of a bank of computers linked to the Internet. Now the cafe’s owner is feeling jittery about an encounter last month with a man he believes may be linked to the terrorist group…
It’s Friday afternoon, one of the busiest times for any airport. But at Denver International Airport’s Concourse A, the throngs of business travelers who should be celebrating the end of a long week are nowhere to be seen. The hallways are mostly empty, only two airplanes are parked at the…
A dispute between lower-downtown business owners and the Regional Transportation District has kept 16th Street Mall shuttle buses off the $2 million, three-block-long extension of the mall to Wynkoop Street. Exasperated LoDo leaders are now planning to fund their own shuttle to move visitors around Denver’s booming entertainment district. The…
Tim Leiweke was whistling Dixie last March. When the boyish 38-year-old former president of the Denver Nuggets unveiled the Pepsi Center, the team’s planned $132 million sports arena across the railroad tracks from Elitch’s in downtown Denver, a Dixieland band tooted its horns at the conference room in the Westin…
The Denver Housing Authority is planning an ambitious $26.4 million renovation of Quigg Newton Homes, the city’s largest housing project, but northwest Denver community leaders say the DHA has been secretive and has left them in the dark. Leaders of Sunnyside United Neighbors angrily accuse the housing authority of excluding…
Last year thousands of baseball fans paid for the privilege of having their names inscribed on bricks placed along the Wynkoop Plaza leading to Coors Field. But for the same $75 fee paid by the masses, some of the most powerful people in Colorado got a little something extra. The…
