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That Lived-in Look

Uptown condo owners are the latest to complain about Triton Development.

By T.R. Witcher
Oct 25, 2001

Last April, Melissa Smith paid $300,000 for a condo in Denver's booming Uptown neighborhood. She wishes she hadn't. The garage of the just-finished building at 1767 Pearl Street is already leaking, the hardwood floors inside her condo are a mess, and she can't take showers in the morning because there's...
Bringing on the Heat

The price of natural gas has been on a cycle for years.

By T.R. Witcher
Oct 4, 2001

Last winter, the United States experienced the highest natural-gas price surge in its history, an increase of some 400 percent on the wholesale level. In response, the Public Utilities Commission approved several rate-hike requests by the state's largest energy provider, Xcel Energy. One jump in January alone generated $361.6 million...
Gas Pains

Drilling for natural gas on the Western Slope has punched holes in some residents' dreams of solitude. Others see it as the way of the West.

By T.R. Witcher
Oct 4, 2001

Amy Potter's balcony offers a commanding view of Battlement Mesa, a Western Slope community named for the imposing geological formation. Most of the few thousand residents of the Grand Valley live there. Potter, a medical assistant, and her retired-cop husband used to live there, too. But a year ago they...
Nobody Does It Better

Blending free jazz with film lore, Sex Mob reworks old James Bond soundtracks for a sound that's shaken and stirred.

By T.R. Witcher
Sep 6, 2001

As artists go, film composers are often chumps. They rarely pursue their own vision; instead, they're following some director's agenda, trying to match their music to edited pieces of celluloid they had no hand in creating. Blending in usually counts for more than standing out -- hardly a recipe for...
Watch What Develops

A battle over another vacant lot is building near East Village.

By T.R. Witcher
Aug 30, 2001

East Village isn't the only turf war on downtown's northeastern edge. The largest empty parcel of land in the neighborhood sits at the corner of 22nd and Washington streets, directly behind the Safeway and right across the street from East Village. Uptown Partnership, a nonprofit developer that's been rehabbing abandoned...

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