The first will be the last. Video One, at 600 Downing Street, was reportedly Denver’s first video store will now be its last. The venerable store, which opened in 1984, has announced that it will be closing in the next few weeks. Here’s the announcement, as shared on Video One’s Facebook…
Drive-ins are supposed to be a thing of the past. But not according to the folks at Blue Starlite Mini Urban Drive-In, a hipster attraction that got its start in Austin before branching out to Miami. And now, Blue Starlite is coming to Minturn, in the Vail Valley — and…
Matthew Van Deventer has been reporting about short-term rentals in Denver — and he’s also closely following proposed changes in regulations for Airbnb and beyond in the Mile High City that could be put in place over the next few months. Critics believe that the regulatory tweaks would further limit…
We recently shared an updated list of the most expensive Denver neighborhoods to rent a two-bedroom apartment according to the latest stats from ApartmentList.com. But that’s hardly the only fresh data in the site’s March 2016 report. Also included is info about the ten Denver neighborhoods with the fastest rent growth…
Two council members have proposed amendments to the controversial short-term-rental regulations proposal that’s been making its way through the city since last year, and on March 30 landed at the council’s Neighborhoods and Planning Committee meeting. The current proposal, spearheaded by councilmember Mary Beth Susman, has riled up Denver’s STR host…
Emily Griffith would likely give this assignment an A, even if it required a couple of extensions — and isn’t a done deal yet. The legendary educator who founded the Opportunity School in Denver a century ago was a visionary, opening a groundbreaking program that was geared toward giving an…
The 16th Street Mall is one of Denver’s top tourist attractions — but do the endless souvenir shops, panhandlers and petitioners encourage tourists to come back? To explore ideas and opportunities for enlivening the mall, the Downtown Denver Partnership and Downtown Denver Business Improvement District will host the 2016 Prototyping…
A controversial proposal that would legalize short-term rentals — but for only one primary resident per address — will make its way to Denver City Council for a final reading on June 13. The STR business is booming in Denver, but causing consternation among residents and neighborhood advocates alike, as…
Over a hundred seniors living at the Lowry Park Independent and Assisted Living Community in east Denver will be able to avoid the rushed relocation that some had feared. After one resident heard rumors that the complex was destined to be scraped and developed into hundreds of new units in…
Is there any topic that gets Denver residents going more than growth — and what comes with it? All over town, people are talking about high rents, displaced tenants, traffic congestion and, in my neighborhood, renewed parking wars, with two entire blocks now lost to a project that’s closed two…
The March 2016 report from ApartmentList.com shows that rental prices in the Denver area have moderated to some degree from their crazy highs of the past year or so. In fact, a stats show that rent prices in Colorado as a whole have actually been rising faster than the ones in…
There’s a new chapter to a long-running northwest side story: This morning, the city is slated to sign a deal for the sale of the Bosler house, the circa 1875 mansion at 3209 West Fairview Place, right off Federal Boulevard. Designated a Denver landmark in 1984, it was purchased by…
On the heels of a report ranking Frontier Airlines higher this year than last for on-time arrivals — yay, we’re now number 12 out of 13! — Denver’s hometown airline is holding a job fair today at Holiday Inn and Suites/Denver International Airport to new flight attendants. Presumably, this additional work force…
Emily Griffith would give this project an incomplete. The legendary educator founded the Opportunity School in Denver a century ago, opening a ground-breaking program that was geared to giving an education to anyone in the city — no matter where they were from, no matter what their background. The free…
We come to praise Frontier Airlines, not to bury it — and that’s a change over the past year or so. Last May, for instance, we posted about the airlines with the least and most consumer complaints according to the Air Travel Consumer Report, a document published semi-annually by the…
On an unseasonably warm winter afternoon, Tom Rutter sits on the patio at Bogey’s on the Park, the clubhouse restaurant at Denver’s City Park Golf Course. The regulars are out on the yellowed fairways or tipping back beers inside, but Rutter is elbow-deep in maps, notes, planning documents and iced…
What goes up, must come down. But must it stay down? Frequent fliers who use the C Concourse have been wondering if one pair of escalators leading from the trains to the concourse would ever be up and running again; crews have been working on them since last fall, ripping…
There are only seven marijuana dispensaries in Aspen. But they are presumably as busy as liquor stores in the community — and sometimes more so. According to newly released City of Aspen statistics, alcohol sales exceeded marijuana sales in the community in 2015. But during two months of the year…
The words “car-free living” in green letters figure prominently on a brochure advertising a micro-apartment complex planned for the Five Points neighborhood. Under Denver’s current zoning code, the developer may not need to provide parking for any of the complex’s 56 units. So will the parking-hungry area just have to…
The high rent prices in Denver have led to a rental development boom. According to a new study by Rent Cafe, the largest rental projects in metro Denver in 2015 added a staggering 3,300 new units of inventory. Indeed, the top property on the following list is responsible for 390 units…
This week’s cover story, “Idea Man,” deals with University of Colorado Denver undergrad Caleb Carr’s quest to help other student inventors control the rights to scientific discoveries and other intellectual property they may develop while still in school. Carr believes that university policies that assign most (and sometimes all) of…
Marijuana legalization has been in full motion for a while now, and dispensaries are finally starting to gather and comprehend retail data like other big-money industries. Cannabis industry data collection firm BDS Analytics recently released its first study on Colorado and Washington marijuana dispensaries, surveying the purchase rates of marijuana…
