Is it illegal in Boulder for marijuana businesses to sponsor booths that prominently display their names at public events? Boulder’s City Attorney suggests that it is, while the man in charge of a local dispensary accused of violating the law by way of a booth at Out Boulder’s Pridefest celebration…
In 2009, Colorado business leaders came up with an idea to boost the state’s then-sagging economy: help cities and counties build new tourist attractions by allowing some of the state sales-tax revenue that would be generated by those attractions to be rebated to the developers to pay off construction costs…
In recent months, there have been a slew of violent incidents on the 16th Street Mall, many of which were ignored or underplayed by many mainstream media outlets. Nonetheless, the assorted crimes got the attention of Westword readers, as well as the Downtown Denver Partnership, which held a meeting on these…
We enjoy checking out the lists on the Ranker website, in part because of their eccentricity. Note that its roster of the most famous people from Denver includes a porn star. Ranker’s choices for the ten most famous buildings and structures in Denver is similarly idiosyncratic. Did the Brown Palace…
Glendale, a pint-sized city surrounded on all sides by southeast Denver, has always had outsized ideas. A municipal rugby complex? Yes! The only King Soopers in the state that sells booze, just blocks from the only Target in the state that sells booze? Sure! A big new marijuana store next…
It’s been a rough few months for Frontier — and the changes the carrier is making in an attempt to right its operation stand a good chance of undermining its longstanding claim to be Denver’s hometown airline. Example: Frontier is giving back six of the gates assigned to it at Denver…
Thumbtack’s list of the top ten cities for millennial entrepreneurs includes a Colorado community — one that finishes very near the top. But that’s no surprise. The site small-business-friendliness survey of the U.S. as a whole gives Colorado an overall mark of A, making it one of just twelve states to…
We’ve been reporting about the marijuana policies of presidential candidates, some of whom would like to turn back the clock on legal recreational sales in Colorado and a handful of other states. But there are plenty of reasons to let Colorado’s experiment go forward. Millions of them, in fact. In…
The Boulder City Council has decided to loosen up some of its restrictions on the town’s marijuana industry. During a meeting that went late Tuesday night, councilmembers unanimously approved an ordinance that will update Boulder’s medical and recreational codes after numerous marijuana-industry stakeholders and community members voiced their displeasure with…
Denver is a good place to start a business and Denver Startup Week has been living proof of that. The city’s annual celebration of entrepreneurs, which started in 2012, has already attracted 10,000 people to this year’s edition, which features 250 events over the course of five days and runs…
The Denver Police Department has revealed that seven pot shops were caught selling marijuana to a person under age 21 in a recent compliance sweep; we’ve got the details below. The DPD was clearly aiming to make a big splash with the announcement, and it’s succeeded, with news operations throughout…
In recent months, Denver’s housing market has been among the hottest in the country. But is it finally beginning to cool down? Hardly, according to two national surveys. But a local report maintains that the answer is “yes.” First, let’s take a look at July numbers from Weiss Residential Research. Nationwide,…
Colorado’s tax holiday on retail marijuana provided full waiting rooms and plenty of customers, but most of the action was taking place in growing operations months before. The one-day tax break, a product of Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights, saved customers the cost of the 10 percent state sales tax…
Native Roots stores have been a part of the Colorado marijuana scene for years — and the chain has grown to encompass eleven recreational and medical outlets across Colorado in part because of clever marketing. Take a 2010 review, in which our William Breathes noted that Native Roots “has better mall shopping…
The green market is headed for the stock market. Although dispensary businesses are having trouble securing financial services — because marijuana is still illegal at the federal level — several pot-related Colorado companies are either currently being publicly traded…or soon will be. How do they manage that? It’s never the…
Businesses tend to steer clear of politics when it comes to advertising for fear of alienating potential customers. Granted, there are a few exceptions — like, say, the new Rocky’s Autos ad that makes fun of Donald Trump’s hair. Yet we were still surprised that Frontier Airlines would take an apparent…
Back in March, our Thomas Mitchell reported about the rise of groups such as the Marijuana Business Association Women’s Alliance, Women Grow and the NORML Women’s Alliance. A number of Mitchell’s interview subjects expressed their hope that the marijuana industry will set a new standard for gender equality. Six months later, this…
The city of Glendale has revised its plan for an entertainment district on the banks of Cherry Creek to omit the land owned by a family that has repeatedly clashed with city leaders. The new plan (on view below in its entirety) does not include 5.4 acres of land owned…
The latest numbers in regard to rent prices in Denver are out. And in the majority of metro-Denver communities, the upward trend continues. The data, courtesy of ApartmentList.com, calculate rent prices during the month of August for ten cities in the area. Numbers include the average cost of one- and…
It can often be difficult to assess the true costs of mineral extraction and energy production across the West. Take, for example, the massive blowout from the much-neglected Gold King Mine earlier this month, which sent three million gallons of metal-laced, toxic water into the Animas River, an orange plume…
Last month, we published “How Much You Need to Make to Have an Adequate Standard of Living in Denver.” The post used number complied by the Economic Policy Institute — and there’s a lot more data about Colorado available. EPI’s website includes a tool dubbed the Family Budget Calculator, which “measures the income a…
Last week, we posted about the five Colorado counties where incomes have risen the most since 1980. Now, we look at the other side of the coin: the five Colorado counties where incomes have fallen the most over that same period. As before, the information comes from the folks at…
