In mid-December, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 members who work for King Soopers and Safeway weighed in on a new contract — one that provided ratification bonuses for those who offered “yes” votes. But the results were mixed. King Soopers workers approved the deal, while their peers at…
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The planned rehabilitation of Denver Union Station is incredibly ambitious – and we’re not just talking about cobbling together enough funding to afford its $500 million price tag. The plan involves coordinating commuter rail, light rail, a bus terminal, historic structures and new public spaces in an area stretched out…
DenverInfill Blog, authored by local urban planner Ken Schroeppel, is a true Denver success story. The nearly six-year-old operation isn’t the flashiest blog around, but it does one thing incredibly well, and that’s cover Denver development. All of us old-fashioned journos trying to cover planning and development long ago ceded…
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Interesting tidbit in the Post business section this morning about how local developer David Engleberg has decided to take a break from the real estate business by taking over a Denver cigar shop. But according to Penny Parker, the “former owner of the Capitol Cigar at 919 E. Colfax Ave…
Yesterday, King Soopers formally, and finally, acknowledged that its grocery workers had accepted the company’s last, best and final contract offer. But silenced prevailed at Safeway, whose employees turned down pretty much the same deal — until today. The firm’s release focuses most of its attention on those bargaining units…
As the final pieces of the funding puzzle behind the $500 million rehab of Union Station fall into place, the project is finally poised to begin. But lately, what, exactly, the final development will look like has been shifting considerably, and not all observers are happy about the changes. Yesterday,…
Update, December 17, 3:21 p.m.: King Soopers has issued an official response to the contract ratification; still nothing from Safeway. Look below for the latest. On Tuesday, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 announced a surprising split vote over the latest contract offers for area grocery employees: King Soopers…
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Update, 12:27 p.m.: United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 spokeswoman Laura Chapin shares comments about the grocery-workers vote below the original item: This just in: King Soopers and City Market employees have voted to accept a contract offer from their company, while their peers at Safeway have turned thumbs…
Almost wintertime, when the Denver bloggin’ is easy. The Nugg Doctor’s Nick Sclafani recaps last night’s agonizing Nuggets loss in Detroit, when 40 points from Melo wasn’t enough. What the hell? Colorado Pols has more on what it’s dubbed the “Dr. Evil initiative.” It can be yours for one MILLION…
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Word that 140 Frontier Airlines jobs will be relocating from Denver to Indianapolis, headquarters of Republic Airways Holdings, which bested Southwest in its quest for the carrier back in October, has been seen as a bummer in these parts. But Frontier spokesman Peter Kowalchuk feels otherwise. “Other than from a…
Worry over the outcome of a mail-in vote on a new contract isn’t the only thing stressing out King Soopers workers this season, as I learned during a shopping trip yesterday. When “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” came streaming over the speakers, our teenage sacker announced, “That’s…
Intriguing story in today’s Houston Chronicle about Houston-based energy giant ConocoPhillips. Reporter Brett Clanton notes that the firm is downsizing elsewhere, but it recently filed “a preliminary development plan for its 432-acre site in Louisville, Colo., a small town roughly six miles east of Boulder and 25 miles northwest of…
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It’s Cyber Monday, a date that sounds as if it should be associated with discounted internet porn and not Christmas shopping — but so be it. And just in time for the holiday shopping season, the happy elves at the U.S. Public Research Interest Group — whose Colorado chapter, COPIRG,…
Word broke last week that King Soopers and Safeway workers affiliated with United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 would soon begin voting on the companies’ last, best and final contract offer. But customers and employees alike won’t know if a strike will disrupt holiday-season shopping for quite a while…
The 17,000 grocery workers of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 union could begin receiving ballots to vote on Safeway and King Soopers’ “last, best and final” contract offer as soon as tomorrow. A yes vote would end seven months of bargaining. The ballots are scheduled to be…
When the sun rose this morning at 6:58 a.m., it shed its light on one of the weirdest American traditions around: millions of people scrambling for discount deals at big box stores. In Denver, this eerie sight was visible from Target and Best Buy to Bass Pro, Kohl’s and Kmart…
Denver Union Station: Portal to Progress – Trailer from Havey Productions on Vimeo.As plans move forward to transform Denver Union Station into a modern transit hub, folks want to make sure the old depot’s past doesn’t get left behind. The latest effort is a new documentary called Denver Union Station:…
