When you’ve dropped two or five or ten million on that second or third home in one of the more desirable Colorado mountain resorts, there are a few items that you take for granted will not be next door. Walmarts, trailer parks and rendering plants are probably high on the…
Yesterday, a Los Angeles jury determined that AEG Live, owned by local gazillionaire Phil Anschutz, was not responsible for singer Michael Jackson’s June 2009 death despite having hired Dr. Conrad Murray, currently serving time for his role in the tragedy. The result is another win for Anschutz, who initially seemed…
Legal marijuana is big business — or at least that’s what investors are banking on. On Tuesday, 22 cannabis entrepreneurs pitched their business ideas to more than sixty investors gathered at the Denver Athletic Club in the second Mile High confab hosted by the California-based ArcView Group, which connects investors…
We all know folks from around the country who graduate from the University of Colorado at Boulder and then never leave town — and it turns out this decision’s a mighty good one according to Kiplinger, whose list of the ten best cities for grads prominently features the People’s Republic…
After watching the Broncos dismantle on the Raiders on Monday Night Football, Denver fans were left with questions like, “Should I book my Super Bowl tickets yet?” But Travis Sawrie of the real-estate blog Movoto wondered something entirely different: How long would it take Peyton to pay off my mortgage?…
Here’s another thing to love about Denver: It’s a big city, but not so big that dignitaries would scoff at attending the grand opening of a Dunkin’ Donuts. Earlier today, as reported on our Cafe Society blog, DIA’s new waiting area, Final Approach, debuted, as did one of the metro…
Last week, a Justice Department rep told a Senate committee the federal government was working on a solution that would allow marijuana businesses in Colorado to legally use the banking system — something that’s been officially forbidden up until now. Among the Colorado agencies lobbying for such a fix is…
Our recent cover story, “Design Flaw,” contains some startlingly lopsided statistics: As of July, there were a whopping 7,148 apartments planned or under construction in Denver, according to the Downtown Denver Partnership, while the number of condos being built was a meager 145 units. There are several theories as to…
This week’s cover story, “Design Flaw,” delves into the drop-off in metro Denver condo development, a phenomenon some blame on construction defect lawsuits. The latest estimates show there are 15,000 apartment units under construction in the seven-county metro area, but just 371 condo units. Which has led those close to…
As noted in this week’s cover story, “Design Flaw,” there were 7,148 apartments planned or under construction in Denver as of July, according to the Downtown Denver Partnership, and just 145 for-sale units. Why the lopsidedness? Some blame the recession, while others point to lawsuits filed against condo builders alleging…
We’ve recently shared posts featuring the most expensive homes for sale in Denver and Boulder. But while many of them are amazing, the priciest residential properties in Vail are in another class. The following five, culled from the impressive Hoffman-West real estate site, feature plenty of unusual images, including a…
Among the biggest hits of the just-wrapped Colorado Innovation Network Summit was a ten-year-old boy from East L.A. Caine Monroy is the star of the short film Caine’s Arcade (watch it below), which tells of how he built an arcade out of cardboard boxes in his dad’s used auto parts…
Last year, the tradition of camping out at the Sports Castle on Broadway before Sniagrab, the annual pre-skiing-season sale at Sports Authority, seemed in danger of extinction due to the urban-camping ban. Sports Authority had to get a special permit from the city to make it happen, albeit for a…
Visitors to shopping centers across the country have no doubt noticed the distinctive look of Hollister stores. They’re designed to recall a Cali surf shack, with hundreds of them nationwide, including the one at Park Meadows Mall, featuring a faux-porch with a couple steps most shoppers must scale in order…
Last week, we posted graphics and more about Hyperloop, a proposed high-tech transportation apparatus developed by Daryl Oster, an inventor in Louisville. But while the first Hyperloop Mark I is being proposed for California, another system, a magnetic-pod monorail called SkyTran, is being pitched for these parts: It would connect…
The saga of the Gaylord hotel in Aurora continues — this time with good news for the folks behind the proposed 1,500-room hotel and convention center. In a letter on view below, the state attorney general’s office has denied a request by a group of Colorado hotels that the Colorado…
Not since the grand opening of an IKEA in Centennial two years ago have consumers in the Denver metro area gone as ape for the debut of a new business as for yesterday’s twin bows of Cabela’s outlets in Thornton and Lone Tree. The crowds were huge and surprisingly diverse:…
The tech world is abuzz in regard to a just-introduced and mighty bold transportation concept: Hyperloop, a large-scale variation on pneumatic tubes used at banks said to hold the potential of transporting people from Los Angeles to San Francisco in thirty minutes. The notion’s booster is Elon Musk, the man…
Last night’s episode of the AMC series Breaking Bad, which marked the first of the final chapters for high-school-teacher-turned-meth-kingpin Walter White (Brian Cranston), was arguably the most anticipated TV event of the summer for those of us who managed not to get overly worked up over the birth of a…
After our update of the most expensive homes for sale in Denver, we visited BoulderHomeSource.com and discovered that three properties included in our roster of Boulder’s most expensive homes for sale from earlier this year are still available — and still spectacular. In addition, two new entries have made the…
All the major players among the region’s natural gas companies are gathering in Denver this week, celebrating the resurgence of their industry thanks to the advent of hydraulic fracturing technology — and pondering why public opposition to fracking in Colorado and elsewhere is so fierce. It’s a tectonic mystery no…
Magpul Industries, one of Colorado’s largest firearms manufacturers, has announced plans to move from the state due to new gun-control laws. But that doesn’t mean all businesses of this sort are shunning Colorado. The council in Johnstown has just given approval to the Liberty Firearms Institute, an enormous facility that…
