The tidal wave of development that’s washed over Denver following the Great Recession has produced plenty of buildings — and a lot of resentment. Neighbors are looking around and wondering what happened to their parking and sunlight. Out-of-towners look at Denver and wonder why a city with the backdrop of…
Slot houses, as they’ve been dubbed by CU Denver’s Christine Franck, are among the most controversial, and most hated, building styles currently on view in the Denver metro area. But there’s another approach that raises the hackles of Denver City Councilman Rafael Espinoza: garden court buildings, which are supposed to…
Alan Prendergast recently discovered that the bungalow in northwest Denver that he’d purchased for $79,000 in 1989 — and sold for double that amount ten years later — had been popped, remodeled (complete with putting green) and put on the market for $975,000. Which led him to ask: “Where the…
Today the Board of Education of Denver Public Schools is slated to vote on the sale of the Emily Griffith property at 1250 Welton Street to Stonebridge Companies for $26,100,000. Legendary Denver educator Emily Griffith would probably give this deal an A — although for a long time, it looked…
As personal marijuana grows proliferate throughout the state, so do the problems that can accompany them. Entrepreneur Alison Helsley thinks she may have found a solution: Rooms to Grow, a space where individuals can grow their own plants away from their private residences. But she’s had to deal with growing…
If you think the property in this photo, and the larger ones below, doesn’t look like a typical ranch, you’d be right. But its owner, rock singer Joe Cocker, isn’t a typical rancher. He is, however, downsizing — and that means he’s selling his spectacular spread near Crawford, on the…
A new private-sector security plan for the 16th Street Mall, which includes the hiring of guards who’ll be on duty as soon as this afternoon, has just been unveiled by the Downtown Denver Partnership and the Downtown Denver Business Improvement District. It’s the latest effort to address problems at one of the…
Earlier this year, Realtor.com named Denver one of the ten best U.S. cities for singles wanting to buy a home. But according to a new study by Zumper, a website focusing on housing and rentals, plenty of them won’t be able to afford such a purchase once they arrive here…
Most people, I suppose, are more than slightly sentimental about the first house they ever owned. Unless you have money to burn, it was probably some kind of fixer-upper, or a very cozy older home in a strange zip code, or otherwise flawed. But then, the whole process is a…
Plenty of Denverites are up in arms about the current state of the 16th Street Mall, which they see as a setting for random violent crime and an aggressive, drug-using homeless population that’s keeping visitors away. In the view of Annie Levinsky, executive director of Historic Denver, such factors, which are…
The recently published post Denver Development and Controversial Impact of “Slot Houses” draws upon “Documenting Change in Denver,” part of an analysis being conducted by CU Denver’s Center for Advanced Research and Traditional Architecture. In tracking the building boom in Denver, CARTA director Christine Franck spotlights the West Colfax neighborhood (and a…
The topic of development in Denver raises passions among plenty of locals — particularly those who don’t like the looks of many new buildings being erected across the Mile High City. Take the comment of one reader, who likened the structures to 1950s prison complexes. Such reactions are of particular interest…
Since at least 2014, when the owners of the former Hotel VQ began leasing 330 square foot micro-apartments for $900, local renters have complained about the high prices they were paying for small spaces in Denver. Of course, one size doesn’t fit all when it comes to the cost of…
Is Tom Cruise selling his spectacular Telluride home because Edge of Tomorrow underperformed at the box office (despite being pretty good)? Or is he simply sick of extraordinary beauty? Neither. He reportedly is bidding adieu to the property, which he purchased in the 1990s, because he simply is too busy to spend much…
Denver is a city of great neighborhoods — some modest, like Westwood, others moneyed. And last Friday, it got a brand-spanking-new neighborhood: Union Station North. Not so long ago, there wasn’t much there there, even though the area is in one of the oldest parts of Denver, near where the…
The topic of violence on the 16th Street Mall isn’t going away. At least not yet. Shortly after we published a three-part series on the subject in this space last month, Denver officials announced a new $396,000 safety plan for the mall that called for a tripling of Denver police officers patrolling the area. But…
When most people think about the high rent prices in the Denver-Boulder area, they tend to focus on how much folks are required to pay each month. But this outlay is only the beginning. High rents impact a range of other issues, including employment, traffic, healthcare and the overall economic…
Sports Authority was supposed to be put out of its misery today, when all its stores were scheduled to close…as its Denver flagship, nicknamed the Sports Castle, already has. But an agreement with lenders reached this week will allow still-operating retail outlets to stay open beyond the July 19 bid deadline for…
“Ghost Town for Sale!! $350,000.” That’s the opening pitch of a Craigslist ad for Cabin Creek, Colorado, a collection of buildings off Highway 36 in Adams County, near Byers, about a 45 minute drive to Denver. And while the offer has gotten loads of attention thus far, owner James Johnson admits…
In May, as we reported, O.penVAPE, a Colorado-based manufacturer of vaporizer devices, cartridges and other marijuana-related products, announced that it had “submitted a proposal to partner with the Metropolitan Football Stadium District, home of the Denver Broncos, to sponsor Denver’s landmark stadium.” The company stressed that “the proposal from O.penVAPE states that…
Even as new buildings keep popping up all over town, Denver is making history this year, with a record number of applications for historic designation going before Denver’s Landmark Preservation Commission — and four already winning full approval in 2016. Today, the commission will consider its fifth application, for the…
The topic of short-term rentals is a controversial one in Denver right now, given new rules just approved by the city council that restrict owners to operating an STR out of their primary residence only. But the field is infinitely more wide open when it comes to the sort of short-term…
