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After Denver was named one of twenty finalists as the location for Amazon HQ2, locals already concerned about out-of-control growth and rising housing costs offered a notably mixed reaction, with a recent poll suggesting that Mile High residents are less enthusiastic about hosting a new campus for the mega-firm than those living in any of the other potential sites. But they may be more favorably disposed to Army Futures Command, a new military project that also has Denver on its short list.

As of late last year, rent prices finally seemed to be leveling off in Denver and its nearby communities following a long stretch during which rental costs consistently zoomed upward in the Mile High City’s hyper-competitive housing market. But the news thus far in 2018 has reversed this trend, with the latest eye-popping data confirming that metro Denver rent increases are back with a vengeance.

Why is the Public Employees Retirement Association continuing to invest in high-fee, high-risk investments?

Last night, the Denver City Council voted to approve a zoning code update that will prevent the new construction of slot homes, a variation on the garden-court form in which entrances don’t typically face the street.

Today in two cities, Denver and New York, Denver Post employees will be taking part in separate demonstrations against Alden Global Capital, the vulture hedge fund that has so gutted the newspaper that former owner Dean Singleton chose to resign as chairman and step down from the editorial board as a way of expressing his frustration and disappointment.

On Friday, May 4, Dean Singleton, who owned the Denver Post from 1987 to 2013, resigned as the newspaper’s chairman and also left his position on the editorial board

The Colorado Legislature is still working on a fix for PERA, but it won’t solve the real problem.

Last year, after Miguel Lopez was refused a permit for the Denver 420 Rally, which he’s put on annually since 2008, following complaints about Civic Center Park being trashed, attorney Rob Corry filed a lawsuit against the City and County of Denver on his behalf. Then, after Michael Ortiz was awarded the permit only to see it subsequently handed to Euflora, a local dispensary, Corry sued Denver in his name, too.

St. Dominic’s worked with neighbors on a plan, then sold the property.

The Denver real estate market remains red hot, with plenty of homes selling for well above the listed price. But when should sellers to put their property on the market and when should they wait? Denver-specific numbers from a new study reveal the ten best and worst days to make a deal for a house in the Mile High City.

An open letter about gentrification to Mayor Michael Hancock from a third-generation former Park Hill resident.

The Cannabist, the Denver Post’s marijuana site, is the latest victim of downsizing at the the newspaper. According a tweet by Jake Browne, who reviewed marijuana for the section and hosted its signature video program, The Cannabist Show, the Post “has cut all editorial staff and will replace them with bots.”

Dave Krieger, a former staffer with the Rocky Mountain News, Denver Post and KOA radio, has been fired from his latest position as editorial page editor of the Boulder Daily Camera after self-publishing an attack on Alden Global Capital, the so-called “vulture” hedge fund that also owns the Post, when his own paper wouldn’t publish it.

The soon-to-start Central 70 plan isn’t the only major construction project along the urban corridor that’s expected to break ground within months. The approximately $330 million undertaking the Colorado Department of Transportation has dubbed the North I-25 project will add express lanes in either direction, as well as replace bridges and more from Johnstown to Fort Collins, and it’s not expected to be completed until 2021. Additionally, the department will be laying the groundwork for future expansion that may not take place until 2075, more than half a century from now.

Brandon Rietheimer might have successfully pushed the most campaigned-against measure on last November’s ballot, but the man behind the controversial Green Roof Initiative is anything but.

What are the most and least expensive places to rent in Denver right now, no matter what size apartment you’d like? Find the answers here.

Readers debate whether living in Denver is worth the price of high rent.

Attorney Brian Vicente sees reason for optimism about MMJ.

Marijuana is legal in Colorado for both medical and recreational purposes according to the state’s constitution.

One of the most frequent questions we at Westword hear is: “Where do my marijuana tax dollars go?” Now, a new animated video created by Marijuana Industry Group, whose executive director, Kristi Kelly, has become the face of the cannabis business in Colorado, gets closer to the truth of the matter than anything has in a long, long time. See it here.

A new analysis of rent growth in the United States reveals that prices in Denver went up 48.3 percent from 2010 through the end of last year. The increase is the fourth highest in the United States during that period, behind only three cities in California’s Bay Area.

Great Hall Partners will hold an open house for would-be concessionaires from 2 to 4 p.m. Monday, April 16.