The Four Seasons Private Residences Denver, the 45-story luxury condo building and hotel that’s been under construction since September 2007, is set to be topped off this Thursday at 10:30 a.m. with the ceremonial hoisting into place of the 75-foot mast that will crown the structure. With the spire, the…
The Colorado Lottery has hooked up with the Denver Broncos for a new scratch game. At first blush, it’s an odd alliance. After all, the National Football League officially discourages gambling (wink, wink, nudge, nudge). Upon further consideration, though, the synchronicity between the organizations is too striking to ignore. Not…
When Southwest Airlines made its run at purchasing Frontier Airlines this past month, a number of industry observers speculated that it was doing so because Frontier was kicking its ass in Denver. But just because Southwest eventually lost out to underdog Republic Airways Holdings in the Frontier sweepstakes doesn’t mean…
On Wednesday, Safeway made what it termed its “final” offer to employees whose contract expired several months ago. Crisanta Duran, associate legal counsel for United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, responded with a statement dismissing the latest proposal as essentially a repeat of one the UFCW found wanting at…
View Larger Map Big news on the transportation front: The long-awaited redevelopment of Union Station into a new transportation hub got underway yesterday. Sure, it’s just some preliminary work on utility lines, but considering the lengthy and convoluted back story to the redevelopment, just the fact that shovels are finally…
Worried that the world’s oil supplies will soon dwindle into nothingness? Relax — we’ve got plenty. At least that’s the assertion of H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, which describes itself as a “nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization” with a goal to…
Frontier Airlines has been the object of affection this summer from two major players in the airline biz: Southwest Airlines, which made a big-money bid for the carrier, and Republic Airways Holdings, which eventually won the Denver firm at auction. But just because Frontier is more coveted than most of…
And Denverites thought the only place they had to worry about Frontier Airlines jobs going was Indianapolis, home base of the carrier’s new owner, Republic Airways Holdings. Now there’s a report that 250 local Frontier positions could be headed to Milwaukee, headquarters of another recent Republic purchase, Midwest Airlines. True,…
The Writer Square pedestrian shopping center downtown may be subtle, quiet and low-key, but the passions the location inspires are anything but. Denver’s Planning Board learned that fact firsthand last night when it considered a controversial new sign plan for the property — a proposal board members decided to vote…
One of the most noticeable — and controversial — changes to downtown lately has been the transformation of Writer Square, the longtime pedestrian shopping center that has lately seen all of its trees, benches and other landscaping removed as part of its new owners’ plan to modernize the property. Residents…
Last Wednesday, we told you about the first tent to pop up outside the Sports Authority branch formerly known as the Gart sports castle a full ten days before the beginning of the annual ski sale known as Sniagrab. Shortly thereafter, the occupant of that temporary structure, Reba Stoner, received…
Most Denverites probably don’t know that the American Humane Association’s national headquarters is located in these parts — specifically Inverness Drive East in Englewood. And while the AHA also has a film-and-television office in Los Angeles (as well as a public-policy branch in Alexandria, Virginia), folks here are behind an…
What does a heavy equipment auction say about the U.S. economy? Plenty, according to a report by Colorado Public Radio producer Zachary Barr that’s airing on National Public Radio stations across the country today. At the event, which took place in Longmont, there were more sellers than buyers, with an…
The death of the joint-operating agreement that was supposed to sustain a business partnership between the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News for a half-century but didn’t survive for even one decade can’t help seeming anticlimactic. After all, the Rocky’s been gone for six months now, as John Temple,…
Just over an hour ago, we told you about a federal grand jury indictment leveled against Xcel Energy, Public Service Company of Colorado, RPI Coating and two individuals over an October 2007 incident at Cabin Creek Hydro Plant near Georgetown in which five workers died. Since then, Public Service Company…
In October 2007, five employees of RPI Coating Inc. were killed by carbon monoxide generated by a fire at the Cabin Creek Hydro Plant outside Georgetown that’s operated by Xcel Energy and Public Service Company of Colorado. Now, a federal grand jury has issued indictments against RPI, Xcel, Public Service…
Republic Airways chief executive Bryan Bedford is in town again today, meeting with employees of Frontier Airlines, which Republic purchased after unexpectedly besting Southwest Airlines at auction. He’s also been chatting with city officials who are understandably desperate to convince Republic to keep Frontier’s operations base here, as opposed to…
Arguments continue about just how grassroots protests against healthcare reform like a recent shoutfest at an Ed Perlmutter event really are. But such displays of disaffection are positively organic in comparison with the rally about climate legislation that took place yesterday in Greeley. The Greeley Tribune reports that hundreds of…
There’s always some authority figure just waiting to crush a brilliant plan…. The folks at Wrigley’s Chicago Bar & Grille, at 18200 W. Colfax Avenue in Golden, wanted to mark Jay Cutler’s return to Denver for a preseason game this weekend against the Broncos with his new team, the Chicago…
No one can accuse us at Westword of not doing old-fashioned, shoe-leather reporting. Moments ago, I left our offices and walked across the street to the Broadway Sports Authority — once known to one and all as the Gart Sports Palace — to check out the first tent set up…
As we noted last week, there appears to have been zero measurable progress made in resolving the long-running contract dispute between unionized grocery workers and the big three local chains: King Soopers, Safeway and Albertsons. But the latter triumvirate may have just gained a public-relations advantage with the announcement that…
Our daily roping of wild Denver blogs. Got any good ones corralled? Photographic evidence that development trudges on in Denver. (Denver Infill) Who will save our national parks? (5280) A happy birthday to Denver’s best Broncos blog. (Mile High Report)…
