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…
On September 19, Denver City Councilman Albus Brooks deleted a number of tweets made from his Twitter handle @AlbusBrooksD9. It’s not a coincidence that the deletions occurred around the same time that the following post showed up on Project VOYCE’s Facebook page: Through Project VOYCE’s Candi CdeBaca, who co-founded the…
A Denver judge has ruled that the operator of a controversial “medical detox” center is in contempt of court for continuing to refer to herself as a doctor and administer IVs containing her proprietary blend of amino-acid injections, despite an injunction prohibiting her from practicing medicine. But the sanctions imposed…
Sustainability is a 21st century ideal — a quality to which every city should aspire during a period in which concerns about the environment, and the ways we interact with it, continue to increase. With that in mind, Amsterdam-based Arcadis, which describes itself as “the leading global design and consultancy for…
Conflicts over growth and development issues in Denver have become so pervasive that even some of the city’s most entrenched, sleepiest neighborhoods — places that 2002’s Blueprint Denver designated as “areas of stability” rather than “areas of change” — are starting to feel the heat. Even in stately, don’t-mess-with-success Park Hill,…
With each passing year, Colorado seems to be losing more classic signage — including vintage hotel and motel signs that have distinguished roadsides in the state for decades. The latest to go? Signs for the Chief Motel and the Stardust Lodge in Colorado Springs, whose accompanying businesses, located on South…
This week’s news about two deaths in Montbello over a 24 hour span couldn’t have come at a worse time. Today, Angelle Fouther, chairperson of the Montbello Organizing Committee (MOC), and other neighborhood leaders are scheduled to gather at the chambers of Denver mayor Michael Hancock to meet with representatives of grocery…
In recent years, renters in Denver have complained about high costs — and even though prices have moderated during the past twelve months or so, that doesn’t seem to be the case for either the cheapest or most expensive neighborhoods to rent a one-bedroom apartment. But what do renters think…
Happy birthday to the Emily Griffith Opportunity School, which the legendary educator founded in Denver a hundred years ago today. Griffith, who’d gotten her start as a substitute teacher in Denver Public Schools, created a ground-breaking program open to people of all ages, from all economic and ethnic backgrounds. The…
Cities in a rapidly urbanizing world are facing a plethora of challenges: climate change, natural resource depletion, population growth, income inequality and education and health disparity. By 2080, cities will be home to 80 percent of the world’s population, straining the resources of America’s urban centers even further. In his book…
Last week, we updated our post about the ten Denver neighborhoods with the least-expensive rent for a one-bedroom apartment by comparing current prices with those from last year at the same time. As we noted, multiple reports have shown that Denver rent prices have fallen over the past twelve months. Yet…
The River North neighborhood has gone from industrial corridor to hipster magnate, full of bars, restaurants and apartment buildings. And this week developers of the area released a rendering of what the neighborhood will look like in four years (above photo), when at least fifteen projects currently in the works are…
Todd Helton, arguably the greatest player in Colorado Rockies history, is swinging for the fences one more time. But this time, the field of play is real estate. Helton is selling his spectacular home in Brighton through REColorado, which has affixed an asking price of $2,295,000. And as you can see…
The University of Colorado’s A-line is getting an F: After months of headaches, delays and denials, last week RTD withheld more than $800K from the contracting firm hired to run the four-month-old “train to the plane” route…for the next 34 years. But the A-line is just one of the problems…
Denver has a reputation as one of the more technologically advanced cities in the country — yet, as we’ve reported, our cell phone service has a national reputation for sucking. And two new reports reinforce it. According to data from the websites RootMetrics and Ookla, Denver’s mobile speeds are among the worst in the…
Kayvan Khalatbari, an early ganjapreneur, recently sold Denver Relief to Willie Nelson for his Willie’s Reserve. Now Khalatbari, an arts supporter (Sexpot Comedy) and activist (he ran for Denver City Council last year) has announced plans for Art&, a new event set for September 16 at the renovated McNichols Building. …
A lawsuit seeking to appeal Littleton’s approval of a mixed-use development in the city’s historic downtown has been dismissed. Arapahoe County District Court Judge Kurt Horton found that plaintiff Leah Burkett does not have the right to appeal the city’s approval of a site-development plan for The Grove, a 260-unit…
