As usual, Fort Collins’s Pat Stryker appeared on the most recent version of the Forbes 400, an annual list of America’s wealthiest people, and her net worth, estimated in mid-October at $2.6 billion, makes her the fifth-richest Coloradan. And while she personally keeps a low profile, she created a philanthropic…
Arapahoe House, a nonprofit that specializes in drug and alcohol treatment, has decided to stop providing detox services to three major metro-area counties and twenty local hospitals. CEO Mike Butler says this move is being made in part because running a detox program costs far more money than it brings in and involves little actual treatment.
An old barn just outside of Pueblo that appears to be on the verge of collapse has been shored up.
It’s been nearly a week since Frontier Airlines’ meltdown following a Denver snowstorm, and remarkably, ripple effects from the rash of delays and cancellations (and resulting passenger frustration) continue to be felt across the country. Examples? Yesterday morning, the Arizona Republic reported that Frontier had cancelled flights to and from Phoenix’s Sky…
A new report from the U.S. Census Bureau reveals that Colorado is the seventh fastest-growing state in the country, having added 91,726 new residents (or almost 10,000 per month) between July 1, 2015 and July 1, 2016 to bring the overall population to 5,540,545. And as evidenced by traffic on I-25…
More than fifty years after she saved one of the oldest blocks in Denver and created Larimer Square, her first adventure in historic preservation, 85-year-old Dana Crawford is staking claims in two mining towns: Trinidad and Idaho Springs. After five decades in the development business, Crawford was initially reluctant to…
At this writing, the chaos over delayed and cancelled Frontier Airlines flights at Denver International Airport has finally calmed down, after yet another day filled with long lines and misdirected baggage. But passenger anger continues to linger over the way the carrier reacted to a snowstorm that hit Denver this…
For our recent post highlighting the spectacular $18.5 million Telluride property owned by novelist/actress Roxanne Pulitzer and her husband, Tim Boberg, which remains on the market after five years but is being rented this winter for the first time, we spoke to Sotheby’s listing agent Matthew Hintermeister about the challenges…
This morning, the board of directors for Colorado’s Economic Development Commission approved a rebate of $300,000 for Freak Power, a movie about writer Hunter S. Thompson’s gonzo 1970 run for sheriff of Pitkin County to be written and directed by Bobby Kennedy III, grandson of the late Senator Robert F…
Our recent post about the Colorado cities that spend the most and the least on the holidays drew from information compiled by WalletHub — and seasonal budget information only scrapes the surface of its data. When we contacted the folks at the site, they provided us with lots of unpublished facts…
Despite providing a home for Mile High Stadium, among Colorado’s most iconic venues, Sun Valley is Denver’s lowest-income neighborhood according to data shared by the office of the city’s mayor, Michael Hancock. But the area has been targeted for economic transformation. Hancock has announced that Sun Valley will receive one…
More than half of the condos being built in the former El Jebel Shrine in Denver’s Berkeley neighborhood have been sold — and the project won’t be completed until the end of next summer. Renamed Mirador at Tennyson, the building itself, being redeveloped by Confluence Companies, will have 24 condos…
For a country rooted in a rebellion, America’s got no shortage of castles. And some spectacular ones can be yours — including one in Denver. Estately recently compiled a list of the most whimsical American castles for sale right now. Among the classically inspired structures highlighted is a Denver-area property…
The election of Donald Trump and his nomination of marijuana-hating Senator Jeff Sessions as attorney general has raised concern among members of the cannabis community about a crackdown on the pot laws in states such as Colorado. Such worries aren’t without merit. University of Denver law professor Sam Kamin recently outlined…
A long-running battle over efforts to develop 130 acres of land at the southwest edge of the sprawling Denver metroplex is headed for a showdown in the next few weeks.
The nonprofit private university recently announced that it would no longer accept new students and plans to close the school at the end of 2017.
Last week, we shared the latest Denver rent data from Zumper by way of counting down the metro-area cities with the lowest-to-highest rent for a one-bedroom apartment. As we noted, the median prices for rent varied by more than $300 from the top of the roster to the bottom. Today,…
A new video makes a case that the campaigns to “Ditch the Ditch” and re-examine Denver’s stormwater plan, which have been fought separately and piecemeal for the most part, may have more in common than most people realize.
In November, Colorado voters approved Amendment 70, which will gradually increase the state minimum wage to $12 per hour (from its current $8.31) by 2020. But the proposal’s success hasn’t slowed the Fight for $15 movement, which has been holding events in the Denver area for years, although none quite…
How much does the average Coloradan budget for the holidays? Turns out the amount differs by location — and it differs a lot. WalletHub came up with holiday-budget estimates for communities across the country — an incredible 570 of them. Included were sixteen cities in Colorado, where holiday-budget estimates start at…
Gart Bros. bought the property in 1971 and dubbed it the “Sportscastle” — a name that changed over the years to “Sports Castle” — and filled the 100,000-square-foot space with skis, sneakers, tennis racquets, golf clubs and basketballs.
While some surveys suggest that overall Denver rent prices have plateaued or are going down, that’s not universally true. Indeed, rents are still rising in some Denver neighborhoods. Likewise, prices for a one-bedroom apartment vary widely in different communities across the Denver metro area. That’s among the takeaways from Zumper’s…
