Former Denver police officer Larry Stevenson has been known as a high-profile employee for the city’s Excise and Licensing Department, a personal friend of Mayor Michael Hancock, the creator of the anti-crime program known as Transportation on Patrol and developer of the Medina Alert system, intended to help catch hit-and-run…
The Zillow.com list of the most expensive streets in America tends to concentrate on communities in a handful of states. For instance, the top ten includes multiple appearances by places in California, Florida and Connecticut. But there’s also a Colorado entry, in a mountain community — and probably not the…
How hot is the real estate market in the Denver area these days? So steamy that buyers are routinely writing offers above the asking price, and often way above it. According to the Denver Metro Association of Realtors, offers of rom $10,000 to $50,000 over list are far from uncommon. “Buyers…
Glendale is proud to announce that it’s going backwards. City officials hope to restore Glendale’s reputation as a social hub with a $175-million dining and entertainment district along Cherry Creek. They unveiled plans Monday for the new development, called Glendale 180. Glendale 180 is slated to include 25 bars and…
Larimer County law enforcement seems to be taking its cues from Nebraska lately. A month after Sheriff Justin Smith headlined a lawsuit aimed at Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, who he alleges violated federal law by passing Amendment 64, his department has decided hemp is a public menace as well. Morris Beegle began…
The Colorado Legislature has passed a bill on to Governor John Hickenlooper that would prohibit use of Electronic Benefit Transfer cards at ATMs at dispensaries and srip clubs. Introduced by Republican Senator Vicki Marble on January 14, the bill was given bipartisan approval on Tuesday in the Senate, as amended in…
The Denver City Council approved a plant limitation on non-licensed marijuana grows Monday night that could force many cultivating operations within city limits to shut down. A 36-plant limit in non-residential zone lots was approved 11-0— meaning any recreational co-op or medical marijuana caregiver over the mark will have to…
Last week, we gave you a look around the spectacular Telluride-area property actor Tom Cruise is selling for $59 million. If that price tag is a little too rich for your blood, we’ve got an alternative — the gorgeous, Aspen-area Capitol Creek Ranch, which can be yours for just $17…
The mayor of Kingston, Jamaica visited Denver over the weekend for some hands-on experience in the legal pot industry. Mayor Angela Brown Burke went on a two-day tour of Colorado marijuana business and met with law enforcement and policy makers from the Governor’s Office and Denver Mayor’s Office in an effort…
Many observers assumed that the amount of taxes and fees generated by marijuana sales would begin falling in the second year of limited legal sales. Nope. Just-released figures from January show that the state collected a record amount — just over $8.8 million. This total includes a windfall for school…
The last twenty seconds of Patricia Arquette’s acceptance speech at the Academy Awards ignited a national conversation about gender equality in the workplace. But many women in Colorado’s pot rush are creating their own. Cannabis industry members can’t help noticing the growing presence of groups such as the Marijuana Business…
As we’ve documented (with help from lots of readers), Denver’s rent prices are rising at a more rapid clip than most renters would like. But while one recent survey put Denver among the twelve U.S. cities where rent has gone up the most, RealtyTrac numbers shared by MainStreet.com places Denver…
Last week, we shared data from ApartmentList.com showing that Denver rent prices are increasing 3.4 times faster than the national average. But the site has shared plenty of other information about renting in the area, too, including a list of the ten most-expensive Denver neighborhoods when it comes to renting…
Back In the mid-’90s, Bill Teck got fed up with all the talk about Generation X. Between Douglas Coupland’s book Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture and Richard Linklater’s film Slacker, pop culture was failing to represent Teck’s experience as a Latino living in Miami, surrounded by people from…
Kayvan Khalatbari has his hands in many projects. His restaurant chain, Sexy Pizza, now has three locations in Denver, and he co-owns Denver Relief, one of the oldest pot stores in the city. Add in Sexpot Comedy (his live-comedy promotion gig), multiple charity efforts and a national cannabis consulting firm…
Marijuana is the fastest growing industry in the U.S. So says a new report by California’s Arcview Market Research. And while the study, spotlighted in a summary on view below, doesn’t exactly qualify as an objective third-party report (it was largely funded by cannabis-biz outfits, including several in Colorado), the…
The city councils of Wheat Ridge and Pueblo held meetings last night to determine the fate of proposed cannabis restrictions in their respective cities, but only one of them ended with a resolution. Meanwhile, Adams County is scheduled an afternoon announcement for the first ten dispensaries to be licensed there…
Jails across America are turning increasingly to private companies to cure the headaches posed by family members seeking to visit incarcerated loved ones. But the solutions developed by the emerging “video visitation industry” come at a steep price — including the stiff costs shouldered by inmates’ families, complaints about poor…
The oil and gas industry raised a massive war chest last year in anticipation of a showdown over anti-fracking ballot initiatives that failed to materialize — and then spent freely on advertising, contributions to PACs and candidate committees, as well as general promotion of the industry’s issues and causes across…
Lawyers for a Christian bakery owner who refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple are calling out a member of the Colorado Civil Rights Commission for a comment she made in which they say she compared the baker “to slave owners and perpetrators of the Holocaust.” At…
When Joshua Dorkin caught the real estate bug, he found out that being smart wasn’t enough — you have to know the business. But the resources he found were expensive or out of reach, so he decided to “democratize” the real estate business by starting BiggerPockets, an online community that…
How easy is it to find a job in three major Colorado cities? Tougher than it was last year, according to a new study by WalletHub. Denver, Colorado Springs and Aurora are included in the survey, and all three have slid considerably since the previous story. Continue to see the…
