According to a new study, the number of high-poverty neighborhoods in the Denver metro area nearly tripled over a fifteen-year period, due in part to high housing costs. In addition, poverty is increasing more quickly in the suburbs than in the city itself.
The dream of a world-class speedway was kept alive on Tuesday, July 18th by an Aurora judge, who ruled in favor of a recent city council charter amendment that would remove the 1999 ban on speedway subsidization while paving the way for a massive “entertainment district” in Northeast Aurora.
So many streets are experiencing lane shutdowns or complete closures because of construction in the Denver area right now that getting from one point to another without sprouting an epic migraine is practically impossible. If a team of experts spent months trying to create the perfect formula for inspiring road rage, they couldn’t do better than this.
Imagine my astonishment when I tried to switch my home Internet service to Century Link and was told to get in line and wait for an indeterminate period of time — possibly a few months.
John Oates, one-half of the iconic singing duo Hall and Oates, is selling his sprawling, rustic Aspen-area ranch for $6 million. Take a photo tour of the property here to see if it will make your dreams come true.
Denver is one of the best cities in the country for job seekers, and the employment market in the state as a whole remains red hot in 2017. But that doesn’t mean finding the perfect gig is as easy as announcing you’re available and waiting for a line to form outside your door. Indeed, a local employment expert stresses that understanding Colorado’s unique culture is key to landing a job that’s right for you.
Denver has created a public-private partnership with the Colorado Department of Transportation and other groups to establish a new neighborhood career resource center that will provide training and jobs for residents of the communities most impacted by the Central 70 project.
While rents in six metro-area suburbs are rising faster than in Denver proper at present, prices are still going up in most city neighborhoods, and costs remain on the high side. Median rent for a two-bedroom apartment in Denver’s tenth most-expensive neighborhood exceeds $1,600, and that’s just over half the nearly $3,000 tag in the part of the city at the top of the scale.
Mason Tvert, a key figure in the passage of Amendment 64, the 2012 measure that legalized limited recreational marijuana sales, and the Denver pot-legalization regulation that preceded it, is leaving his post as communications director for the national Marijuana Policy Project in favor of a similar position at VS Strategies, a Denver-based consulting firm that’s become a national powerhouse.
Drivers traveling between Boulder to Denver using express lanes on Interstate 25 and U.S. 36 could be paying more depending on the time of their commute mere weeks from now under a new proposal by Plenary Roads Denver, the private concessionaire that manages the lanes for the Colorado Department of Transportation. The price tag for people who don’t use Express Toll, the service that automatically assesses fees rather than mailing bills based on license plates, could be as high as $21 to travel the route, more than $5 higher than the proposed toll rates less than two years ago.
As expected, Denver has been named the new home of the Outdoor Retailer shows thanks to a five-year pact confirmed at a press conference this morning. And the advocacy group Conservation Colorado links this economic coup with controversy over public lands policies in Utah, Outdoor Retailer’s previous home, and the plan to shrink Bear Ears National Monument pressed by President Donald Trump’s administration.
Rent in Denver continues to rise at a rapid clip as measured both month-to-month and year-to-year. But rent prices are going up more quickly in at least six metro suburbs than it is in Denver proper.
Our story recapping recent action on Broadway, particularly regarding bicycles on Broadway and the city’s pilot bike-lane project, has readers on a roll.
After wrestling for years with how to improve the image of the 16th Street Mall, the City of Denver and the Regional Transportation District are kicking of the next phase of planning for its future.
Denver’s economy is booming, yet blue-collar and service workers who rent in the Mile High City’s metro area have less money after paying for housing today than they did ten years ago, according to a new study. And the woman who oversaw the report says there’s no indication that the situation will improve anytime soon.
Metropolitan State University has been on a building binge. Metro has recently added a Student Academic Success Center, a Marriott Springhill Suites location with an academic hospitality school, and a massive sports complex for both collegiate teams and student exercise on the Auraria campus. On Thursday, June 22, Metro celebrated the completion and opening of its latest project, the Aerospace and Engineering Sciences Building.
A dozen years after Westword did its first profile of Broadway, we returned to this “magnificent thoroughfare” and detailed how Denver’s booming economy has affected the road from top to bottom. But there’s no development that captures the public’s imagination — and anger — more than the pilot bicycle-lane project,
Neil Gorsuch, who was sworn in as a U.S. Supreme Court justice in April, is selling his Boulder County home. The property is described as a “Horse Lovers Paradise,” and if it sells for anything near the asking price of $1.675 million, it should add considerably to the net worth of Gorsuch, who may already be the wealthiest member of the Supreme Court.
Metro Denver is currently the least affordable market in the country for first-time home buyers, according to newly released statistics. Major factors include millennial newcomers whose willingness to pay more is boosting prices higher and higher and higher.
The Ballpark neighborhood has weathered some tough times in recent years. Lately, though, the neighborhood has been re-energized, with a push to create a business improvement district. And now it looks like the city has a hit with The Square on 21st, a new summer pop-up park on 21st Street.
Scott Pack has been indicted by an Arapahoe County grand jury for what attorney Matthew Buck has called “the largest fraud case in the history of Colorado’s marijuana industry.” Buck, who filed a lawsuit in the matter earlier this year, says the grand jury’s findings tie Pack to what prosecutors describe as a massive operation that grew marijuana for distribution outside Colorado and previously led to the indictment of sixteen people, including Pack associate Rudy Saenz. Among those reportedly indicted along with Pack is Renee Rayton, a former officer for the state’s Marijuana Enforcement Division.
Like the rest of Denver, Broadway is booming. As you travel one of the city’s “great thoroughfares” from north to south,and back again, you pass through the city’s past…and see glimpses of its future.
