We recent posted about the current cost to rent a two-bedroom apartment in 26 Denver neighborhoods, using data from the recently released November 2016 Denver Rent Report from ApartmentList.com. The report maintains that rents have stayed flat in the metro area over the past month even though prices are still…
RiNo pioneer Zeppelin Development wants to create a destination for passengers boarding or disembarking at Blake Street Station, just one stop from Denver Union Station on the commuter rail line to Denver International Airport.
All Judith Battista wants to do is sell the Jefferson Park home she’s owned for the past ten years for the highest price she can get.
By next summer, two abandoned buildings on the banks of the South Platte River will be converted into office space for tech companies, creative businesses and a restaurant.
The November 2016 Denver Rent Report from ApartmentList.com offers median costs for renting a two-bedroom apartment in 26 neighborhoods across the metro area. As you’ll see, the digits vary widely. Example: The median rent rate in the least expensive neighborhood surveyed is exactly one-third the asking price for the average two-bedroom…
Seven years after Colorado’s General Assembly passed the Regional Tourism Act (RTA) in 2009, allowing the state to award sales tax revenue to developers constructing large tourist attractions, the funding mechanism appears unlikely to be renewed.
Tom Cruise’s $59 million Telluride mansion remains on sale two years after it was originally listed — a phenomenon that’s been repeated across the country for spectacular, star-owned properties. Note that Michael Jordan’s Chicago home has been on the market for four years-plus with no takers and Robin Williams’s Napa Valley…
Denver finds itself on plenty of top-ten lists — registering first, for example, on the U.S. News & World Report roster of best places to live earlier this year. But its appearance on a new list from Orkin is unlikely to be touted in any Visit Denver brochures. The pest-control giant has just…
In our current cover story about the Stanley Hotel, “Shine On,” we report that the historic landmark, which inspired Stephen King’s The Shining, was awarded $11.5 million in state funding for its vision of constructing a film center that would make it the epicenter of the worldwide horror-film industry. But…
The 22,000-square-foot redevelopment of the old Fistell’s Electronics building pays tribute to the business that had occupied the circa 1898 structure at 1001 Bannock Street since the 1950s, after holding down other addresses in the Golden Triangle for two decades before that. The structure is now home to Shift Bannock, the…
We recently offered mini-tours of the six most expensive homes for sale in Denver right now. Today, we flip that script. The least-expensive properties for sale on the MetroDenverHomeListings.com website at present are mostly one-bedroom condos in the 600-800 square foot range. All but two of them are available for under $100,000…
Rob Rager had some time to kill between appointments, so, like anyone with a phone, he started scrolling through Facebook. A conversation occurring on the Denver Fugly Facebook page caught his eye. Fugly encourages discussion about design and architecture – mostly of the bad variety – and is followed by…
The trailer parks are gone and the work has started on Del Corazon, a 197-unit affordable housing complex on 4.5 acres straddling Morrison Road in Westwood, one of Denver’s poorest neighborhoods. St. Charles Town Company broke ground last week on the $40 million project, which is expected to be completed…
On October 20, Cold Crush reopened, a week after the venue at 2700 Larimer Street had been declared a public nuisance and closed by the Denver Police Department. In the intervening days, fans of the club had complained of unequal treatment, while neighbors debated the pros and cons of the place…
Leah Burkett isn’t giving up her fight against a Zocalo Community Development project that will put a 160-unit apartment complex near a house she owns in downtown Littleton. Burkett is asking Arapahoe County District Court Judge Kurt Horton to take another look a lawsuit she’d filed against Zocalo and the…
Over the years in this space, we’ve periodically offered mini-tours of the most expensive homes for sale in Denver — and a look at our most recent roundup, published in early 2014, demonstrates how much hotter the Denver housing market has gotten over the past two-plus years. The most expensive home on…
Suite 201 of the Wellington E. Webb Municipal Office Building was bursting at the seams Tuesday, October 11, when the Board of Adjustments took up an appeal that argued the zoning department had erred when it permitted micro-apartments and a restaurant in the 1500 block of Humboldt Street. The board…
Our recent post “Renters Grade Denver: What Got an A-? And What Got a D?” revealed Denver-centric results from the United States Renter Confidence Survey, in which the folks at Apartment List quizzed 30,000 renters nationwide. Turns out, though, that Denver wasn’t the only Colorado city to be analyzed. Of…
On October 11, the Denver Board of Adjustment for Zoning Appeals will hear the Humboldt Street Neighborhood Association’s appeal of the city permit issued for a project on two small, combined lots in the 1500 block of Humboldt Street. Real-estate developer Pando Holdings has partnered with Denver businessman and philanthropist Barry…
A little over a year ago, we introduced you to the five richest Coloradans according to their position on the Forbes 400. At first glance, the updated Forbes list is unchanged; the same five people appear on the roster, and in the same order. However, there have been some shifts in…
In the 32 years he’s lived on Humboldt Street, David Engelken has seen many changes in his neighborhood. He remembers the early ’90s, when prostitutes and drug dealers occupied the brownstones across the street from his house. A decade later, he helped secure the area’s historic designation. Now Engelken, the…
Among the key elements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, shorthanded as HIPPA, are provisions guarding the privacy of a person’s medical history. And since hospitals are repositories of such information, they are on the front lines when it comes to preventing such data being made public. All…
