Last week, we told you that Lala Vazquez, Carmelo Anthony’s new bride, had put her custom pink Range Rover up for auction on eBay. The fine ride didn’t sell the first time around, so Lala re-listed it — and this time, it’s attracting offers…
Since last November, when Frontier Airlines jobs began moving to Milwaukee and Indianapolis, locals have feared that the new acquisition of Indy’s Republic Airways Holdings would slowly sever its ties to Denver. It’s good news, then, that Frontier has extended its lease at DIA until 2020. Look below to get…
We knew Carmelo Anthony and Lala Vazquez’s NYC wedding was expensive. I mean, they had to pay for a photo booth, so Kim Kardashian could take a picture of her ass. But did it really cost so much that Lala needed to put her pink Range Rover up for sale…
As noted by Penny Parker, the historic Richthofen Castle — built in the late 1800s by the uncle of the Red Baron — has been on sale for four-years plus. That means even before the real estate slump, no one was interested in plunking down $3.9 million (not counting memorabilia)…
Star architect Santiago Calatrava will reveal his plan for the new Fastracks/Westin Hotel/Terminal on Thursday, July 29, 2010. It is only fitting that Denver Manager of Aviation Kim Day will be throwing him a birthday party the night before, as she has consistently held a “let them eat cake” attitude…
“Did you see the woman in a bikini twirling a ‘$5 joints’ sign on Federal?” In the hyper-competitive and growing field of medical marijuana sales, any advantage to catch a potential buyer’s attention is being explored, including catering to the most basic compulsions. And what’s worked for beer, cigarettes, chicken…
The Tim Tebow empire grows by the day. Example? The Tim Tebow Nike Trainer 1.2, a joint production of Nike and EA Sports timed to help hype NCAA Football 11, the latest version of the venerable videogame, which features Tebow on the cover. The design is keyed to the Florida…
The owners of the Westminster Mall — once an epicenter of metro commerce that has suffered in the shadow of the newer, slicker FlatIrons Mall in Broomfield — are suing the city for allegedly damaging the property’s marketability after the city declared it blighted. As the Denver Post reports, Westminster…
That’s the news from Site Selection, a magazine with the corporatey mission of providing “corporate real estate strategy and area economic development.”The Denver-Aurora area ranked third behind San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont (1) and and Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton metro areas as best locations for businesses that implement green initiatives. So what exactly, is “sustainability,” according…
Here’s good news for all those fearing the coming robot apocalypse: SkyNet, the company behind the giant digital billboard at the Colorado Convention Center named for a fictional, computer-based defense system that takes over earth and spews out Arnold Schwarzenegger robots, seems to have been terminated…
Almost three months after CenturyTel announced a $22 billion deal to take over Qwest Communications, some of the most important questions about the historic merger remain unanswered — like what happens to all those old phone books, weird equipment, archival collections and other cool bits of telephonic history hidden on…
Occipital is a Boulder startup that just hit the big time. The company’s just been acquired by eBay on the strength of its RedLaser app for iPhones, which scans barcodes, allowing users to compare prices on the go. As part of its big push into mobile shopping, eBay has reduced…
As anyone who’s been in LoDo at closing time can attest, when 10,000 drunks pour into the street at the same time, it’s like the fan just waiting to get hit by the, well, you know what. So how do you stop shit from happening? With “nighttime economies” becoming major…
The rehabilitation of Denver’s historic Union Station into a modern transit hub is one of the most complicated and ambitious projects ever attempted around here: a convoluted labyrinth of rail lines, bus infrastructure, pedestrian walkways and private development crammed into a crowded, historic corner of LoDo plagued with underground utility…
At first glance, the logo seen here seems sinful, like some horrific gene-splicing experiment gone wrong. But since it involves Tim Tebow, how unholy can it be? Not unholy at all, argues Ed Marlowe, the Orlando resident behind BroncoGator.com…
On Wednesday, we previewed the Microsoft Store grand opening at Park Meadows — and judging by two video clips, yesterday’s festivities were both well-attended and mildly terrifying. Look below to check out the ribbon cutting, complete with employees in uni-colored T-shirts leaping up and down like Glee cast members on…
The wait is over, nerds. Microsoft has announced the location of its third-ever store: the Park Meadows shopping center in Lone Tree. Or, as the center’s promo folks like to call it, “the Park Meadows Retail Resort.” Back in April, we told you Microsoft was planning to open a store…
The announcements kept coming from the governor’s office yesterday: Bill Ritter would be signing this bill in front of this group, that bill in front of that group, with his eye on hitting constituencies across the state — and also hitting the June 11 deadline for action on all bills…
National Public Radio doesn’t do advertising — not unless you count all those support announcements, which pretty much add up to the same thing. But a piece heard this morning pretty much adds up to a commercial for Denver’s Stapleton neighborhood. The package examines research that contrasts the amount of…
A few weeks back, Mayor John Hickenlooper announced that the city would sell Cableland, a swanky bachelor pad turned official mayoral residence, which had been donated to Denver by the late cable baron Bill Daniels. Proceeds would go to a scholarship foundation. But not so fast. Last night, the Denver…
Last month, Republic Airways Holdings decided to marry Frontier Airlines and Midwest Airlines under the Frontier name. Then, in a bid to placate potentially pissed-off Midwest fans, the company decided to honor the carrier’s Wisconsin roots by putting a badger on Frontier tails — and holding a contest to name…
DIA wasn’t the only place that experienced high winds and hail yesterday. Commerce City also got pounded, to the apparent delight of every roofer within a hundred miles. A resident of the Reunion neighborhood who shall remain nameless (because he doesn’t want to excite any more friggin’ roofers) says two…
