Today, O.penVAPE, a Colorado-based manufacturer of vaporizer devices, cartridges and other marijuana-related products, is announcing that it has “submitted a proposal to partner with the Metropolitan Football Stadium District, home of the Denver Broncos, to sponsor Denver’s landmark stadium.” The name the company envisions: O.penVAPE at Mile High. This news…
Nothing gets more Westword readers talking these days than the topic of development in Denver. Likewise, there’s plenty of debate about modern buildings popping up in neighborhoods all over the Mile High City. Some people love them. Others hate them — or at least dislike the often jumbled juxtaposition of new-school…
Last July, Troy Tulowitzki, among the best players in Colorado Rockies history, was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays, where he appears to be flourishing. Tulo helped lead the Jays to the playoffs last year, and on Sunday, he belted his eighth homer of the season, raising his slugging percentage…
The Denver City Council is about to get a crash course on one of Denver’s most enlightened citizens: Emily Griffith. The legendary educator got her start in Denver as a substitute teacher, became a deputy superintendent of schools for Colorado in 1904, and founded the Opportunity School a century ago. Its…
“If we build it, they will come,” said Downtown Denver Partnership CEO Tami Door at the 2016 State of Downtown briefing at the Hyatt Regency on May 10. “And they are coming.” And coming, and coming, turning Denver’s downtown into one of the most successful in the country – and…
As we know, rents in Denver have been high over the past couple of years. Fortunately, prices have started to moderate of late — but not at the same rate for every type of place. That’s clear from the April Denver rent report by Zumper. The site offers data for…
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…
