Business

A recent study demonstrates how enormous the gap is between those with incomes in the top 1 percent and the other 99 percent in cities and counties across Colorado.

According to one real estate expert, a rising number of Denver metro-area entrepreneurs have moved beyond house-flips to tear-downs, an increasingly lucrative practice that entails purchasing a home, destroying it and building a new, higher-priced structure in its place.

In recent weeks, we reported that metro Denver rents had hit new heights with no end in sight. But the scale of these increases remains surprising, and worrisome, too. Indeed, a new report reveals that the price of renting a one-bedroom apartment in Denver went up by a higher percentage from month to month than any other city in the country.

More evidence that the economic impact of marijuana goes far beyond the sale of cannabis products: A Denver-metro company is now marketing a brand of paint specifically designed to cover up the smell of pot smoke.

A new report reveals that Denver is among the major cities with the most rent fraud. The main reasons include the number of transplants moving to the area who pay for an apartment before even seeing it.

Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite found in cat feces, may be influencing humans to take more risks in business ventures.

Last month, pilots for Denver-based Frontier Airlines declared that they were 100 percent ready to strike even though they’re currently precluded from doing so by federal law. So yesterday, their union, the Air Line Pilots Association, did the next best thing, filing a lawsuit asking that a U.S. District Court judge force the carrier to actually try to resolve a situation that’s gone to bad to worse.

Pay is so low for many people working for Frontier Airlines that sources refer to many Denver International Airport gigs as “Cup o’ Noodles” jobs, because that’s the only thing employees can afford to eat.

Lisa Gonzalez and her family of seven recently moved into a Habitat for Humanity home at Sheridan Square, a 63-home development off of South Federal and Dartmouth.

This week, Denver is launching a major reconstruction project on Federal Boulevard from West 7th Avenue to West Holden Place that’s 23 years in the making.

The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel has announced that on August 13, it will stop publishing physical versions of its work on Monday and Tuesday in favor of e-editions online.

On July 24, Denver’s Landmark Preservation Commission was scheduled to consider a proposal by Denver Arts & Venues to make significant changes to the planter boxes placed along the edges of the seating section at world-renowned Red Rocks Amphitheatre. But days before the session, officials canceled the presentation in the face of opposition from the nonprofit citizens group Friends of Red Rocks and plenty of others.

Veronica Collin, a house flipper and head of Fresco Real Estate, offers insights taht collectively form a de facto guide to house flipping in Denver circa 2018.

Denver-based Frontier wound up near the bottom of a new survey touching on major national airlines, scoring the second-lowest marks when it comes to favorable impressions and the likelihood of ticket-purchasing.

Remember when rent prices in metro Denver finally seemed to be leveling off after a long stretch during which they kept rising amid a housing market that had seemingly reached maximum hotness? That seems like a distant memory now. Indeed, the situation has deteriorated for renters throughout 2018, with increases reaching new peaks each of the last two months. And this month, things are even worse.

Personal growth shouldn’t happen alone, says co-founder Amy Baglan.

Some Denverites say they’ve been harassed and profiled by private security guards.

Does the photo above show a vacant lot or a Denver park? According to Denver City Council member Jolon Clark, who’s championing a new sales tax to improve and expand parks in the Mile High City, the answer is both.

Colorado business leaders’ confidence in the economy has dropped for the state and the country as a whole. And while their outlook remains positive overall, there are growing indications that entrepreneurs in these parts seem worried that the good times may finally be about to turn.

According to a new study, Denver County has the second worst home affordability of 432 counties analyzed across the country, including those in every major U.S. metropolitan area.

Representatives of several crisis pregnancy centers in the metro Denver area object to having been characterized as fake clinics by NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado in the context of a just-issued U.S. Supreme Court decision in favor of CPCs.

The National Association of Cannabis Businesses’ draft guidelines to establish a country-wide advertising standard for the marijuana industry was the subject of a months’ long comment period and is expected to be finalized this summer. Doug Fischer, chief legal officer for the NACB, believes such a criterion is needed as soon as possible, even though cannabis remains illegal on a federal level.