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A long-running battle over efforts to develop 130 acres of land at the southwest edge of the sprawling Denver metroplex is headed for a showdown in the next few weeks.

The nonprofit private university recently announced that it would no longer accept new students and plans to close the school at the end of 2017.

Last week, we shared the latest Denver rent data from Zumper by way of counting down the metro-area cities with the lowest-to-highest rent for a one-bedroom apartment. As we noted, the median prices for rent varied by more than $300 from the top of the roster to the bottom. Today,…

A new video makes a case that the campaigns to “Ditch the Ditch” and re-examine Denver’s stormwater plan, which have been fought separately and piecemeal for the most part, may have more in common than most people realize.

In November, Colorado voters approved Amendment 70, which will gradually increase the state minimum wage to $12 per hour (from its current $8.31) by 2020. But the proposal’s success hasn’t slowed the Fight for $15 movement, which has been holding events in the Denver area for years, although none quite…

How much does the average Coloradan budget for the holidays? Turns out the amount differs by location — and it differs a lot. WalletHub came up with holiday-budget estimates for communities across the country — an incredible 570 of them. Included were sixteen cities in Colorado, where holiday-budget estimates start at…

Gart Bros. bought the property in 1971 and dubbed it the “Sportscastle” — a name that changed over the years to “Sports Castle” — and filled the 100,000-square-foot space with skis, sneakers, tennis racquets, golf clubs and basketballs.

While some surveys suggest that overall Denver rent prices have plateaued or are going down, that’s not universally true. Indeed, rents are still rising in some Denver neighborhoods. Likewise, prices for a one-bedroom apartment vary widely in different communities across the Denver metro area. That’s among the takeaways from Zumper’s…

In a victory for proponents of property rights, the Denver City Council on Monday, November 21, rejected historic designation for Judith Battista’s Jefferson Park home.

Denver gets a lot of love from list-makers, as witnessed by the community being named the best place to live in America by U.S. News & World Report earlier this year. But Colorado is hardly a one-city state. As evidence, eyeball WalletHub’s roster of 2016’s Best Small Cities in America. The…

In July, owner Holly Kylberg listed the property for $4.5 million with broker Phil Ruschmeyer. Ruschmeyer in October enlisted online real estate marketing firm LFC Group of Companies in an effort to gain a wider audience. Bids will be accepted through December 15.

Can someone other than a home’s owner have the building designated historic? That’s the question Judith Battista is asking, now that Denver City Council rep Rafael Espinoza has applied to have the Jefferson Park house she’s owned for ten years declared historic. “As I’ve told everyone, my house is for…

Each year, Outside magazine compiles a list of the 100 best places to work in these United States. And each year, more and more of them seem to be located in Colorado. Examples? As we reported back in 2011, when the Outside list ended at fifty, seven from Colorado placed — and…

Denver’s $300-million stormwater diversion project has already generated significant community resistance, but opponents of the Platte to Park Hill Stormwater Systems are increasingly focusing on a little-discussed aspect of the project: the decision to direct storm runoff to the South Platte River through a heavily polluted Superfund  site.

We recent posted about the current cost to rent a two-bedroom apartment in 26 Denver neighborhoods, using data from the recently released November 2016 Denver Rent Report from ApartmentList.com. The report maintains that rents have stayed flat in the metro area over the past month even though prices are still…

RiNo pioneer Zeppelin Development wants to create a destination for passengers boarding or disembarking at Blake Street Station, just one stop from Denver Union Station on the commuter rail line to Denver International Airport.

All Judith Battista wants to do is sell the Jefferson Park home she’s owned for the past ten years for the highest price she can get.

By next summer, two abandoned buildings on the banks of the South Platte River will be converted into office space for tech companies, creative businesses and a restaurant.

The November 2016 Denver Rent Report from ApartmentList.com offers median costs for renting a two-bedroom apartment in 26 neighborhoods across the metro area. As you’ll see, the digits vary widely. Example: The median rent rate in the least expensive neighborhood surveyed is exactly one-third the asking price for the average two-bedroom…

Seven years after Colorado’s General Assembly passed the Regional Tourism Act (RTA) in 2009, allowing the state to award sales tax revenue to developers constructing large tourist attractions, the funding mechanism appears unlikely to be renewed.

Tom Cruise’s $59 million Telluride mansion remains on sale two years after it was originally listed — a phenomenon that’s been repeated across the country for spectacular, star-owned properties. Note that Michael Jordan’s Chicago home has been on the market for four years-plus with no takers and Robin Williams’s Napa Valley…

Denver finds itself on plenty of top-ten lists — registering first, for example, on the U.S. News & World Report roster of best places to live earlier this year. But its appearance on a new list from Orkin is unlikely to be touted in any Visit Denver brochures. The pest-control giant has just…