Late last month, Denver announced a plan to spend $150 million over the next ten years to construct 6,000 affordable housing units. The announcement was made at a packed community meeting at East High School on April 26, where Mayor Michael Hancock and other Denver officials described the ins-and-outs of…
As we were assembling a recent post about Outside magazine’s best towns in America contest, an ongoing tournament in which several Colorado communities are competing, we realized we hadn’t checked to see how many businesses from our state made the mag’s latest list of the best places to work in the…
Before we get to the picture above, which was sent to me by a local attorney with an eye for such things, let me first explain that the administration of Mayor Michael Hancock is very, very sensitive, a mite touchy — one might even say thin-skinned about how we drudges…
Today AdCellerant and Voice Media Group (Westword’s parent company) announce the launch of their programmatic advertising network for businesses in the cannabis industry, an entirely new service that will allow marijuana entrepreneurs to market themselves more effectively on the Internet through programmatic display advertising. AdCellerant will work with Voice Media Group…
I first saw Denver on a train coming from the East, as so many people had for almost a century at that point. Overnight, the Denver Zephyr (R.I.P.: 1973) had carried my family across the plains from Chicago, and when we’d woken up that morning, we’d spotted the mountains on…
I remember the first time I set foot inside a recreational marijuana dispensary. It was May 2014, and the pot shop was a highly awarded location, the Clinic Colorado. Smoking pot was nothing new to me, but buying weed legally certainly was. And the options! The options gave me a…
A team led by University of Colorado Denver professor Jordan Hill has launched North/East Denver Change, a website dedicated to nonpartisan information about developments and the neighborhoods being affected. The site was assembled in a space on the Auraria campus, where Hill works with a mix of master’s students and undergrads…
A couple of weeks back, we reported about Sports Authority’s plan to close three Colorado stores, including the iconic Sports Castle at 1000 Broadway, as the company teetered on the brink of bankruptcy. Said teetering is now over. Today, under the heading “A Message From Our CEO About Our Restructuring,”…
Ever drive by a major Denver remodeling project and wonder what’s going on — and how much is being spent? Now there’s a way to find out. BuildZoom.com has created a Denver-centric map that aims to track every single remodeling project in the Mile High — or at least ones big…
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…
