This week’s cover story, “Design Flaw,” delves into the drop-off in metro Denver condo development, a phenomenon some blame on construction defect lawsuits. The latest estimates show there are 15,000 apartment units under construction in the seven-county metro area, but just 371 condo units. Which has led those close to…
As noted in this week’s cover story, “Design Flaw,” there were 7,148 apartments planned or under construction in Denver as of July, according to the Downtown Denver Partnership, and just 145 for-sale units. Why the lopsidedness? Some blame the recession, while others point to lawsuits filed against condo builders alleging…
We’ve recently shared posts featuring the most expensive homes for sale in Denver and Boulder. But while many of them are amazing, the priciest residential properties in Vail are in another class. The following five, culled from the impressive Hoffman-West real estate site, feature plenty of unusual images, including a…
Among the biggest hits of the just-wrapped Colorado Innovation Network Summit was a ten-year-old boy from East L.A. Caine Monroy is the star of the short film Caine’s Arcade (watch it below), which tells of how he built an arcade out of cardboard boxes in his dad’s used auto parts…
Last year, the tradition of camping out at the Sports Castle on Broadway before Sniagrab, the annual pre-skiing-season sale at Sports Authority, seemed in danger of extinction due to the urban-camping ban. Sports Authority had to get a special permit from the city to make it happen, albeit for a…
Visitors to shopping centers across the country have no doubt noticed the distinctive look of Hollister stores. They’re designed to recall a Cali surf shack, with hundreds of them nationwide, including the one at Park Meadows Mall, featuring a faux-porch with a couple steps most shoppers must scale in order…
Last week, we posted graphics and more about Hyperloop, a proposed high-tech transportation apparatus developed by Daryl Oster, an inventor in Louisville. But while the first Hyperloop Mark I is being proposed for California, another system, a magnetic-pod monorail called SkyTran, is being pitched for these parts: It would connect…
The saga of the Gaylord hotel in Aurora continues — this time with good news for the folks behind the proposed 1,500-room hotel and convention center. In a letter on view below, the state attorney general’s office has denied a request by a group of Colorado hotels that the Colorado…
Not since the grand opening of an IKEA in Centennial two years ago have consumers in the Denver metro area gone as ape for the debut of a new business as for yesterday’s twin bows of Cabela’s outlets in Thornton and Lone Tree. The crowds were huge and surprisingly diverse:…
The tech world is abuzz in regard to a just-introduced and mighty bold transportation concept: Hyperloop, a large-scale variation on pneumatic tubes used at banks said to hold the potential of transporting people from Los Angeles to San Francisco in thirty minutes. The notion’s booster is Elon Musk, the man…
Last night’s episode of the AMC series Breaking Bad, which marked the first of the final chapters for high-school-teacher-turned-meth-kingpin Walter White (Brian Cranston), was arguably the most anticipated TV event of the summer for those of us who managed not to get overly worked up over the birth of a…
After our update of the most expensive homes for sale in Denver, we visited BoulderHomeSource.com and discovered that three properties included in our roster of Boulder’s most expensive homes for sale from earlier this year are still available — and still spectacular. In addition, two new entries have made the…
All the major players among the region’s natural gas companies are gathering in Denver this week, celebrating the resurgence of their industry thanks to the advent of hydraulic fracturing technology — and pondering why public opposition to fracking in Colorado and elsewhere is so fierce. It’s a tectonic mystery no…
Magpul Industries, one of Colorado’s largest firearms manufacturers, has announced plans to move from the state due to new gun-control laws. But that doesn’t mean all businesses of this sort are shunning Colorado. The council in Johnstown has just given approval to the Liberty Firearms Institute, an enormous facility that…
This week’s cover story, “Fantasy Island,” explains that to pave the way for the riverwalk officials in Glendale hope to build along Cherry Creek, the city has made a series of civic improvements over the years. In turn, city boosters say those improvements have led to more private development, including…
The city of Glendale was one of four applicants whose tourism projects were not chosen last year to receive state sales-tax rebates under the Regional Tourism Act. But as explained in this week’s cover story, “Fantasy Island,” Glendale don’t give a shit; the city known for its iconic strip club…
We’ve all experienced rushes at Denver International Airport — but where are all those people heading? The folks at DIA have broken down the numbers to reveal the top twenty domestic destinations, complete annual and daily passenger data and average fares. We assembled all the info below, then photo-illustrated it…
Shotgun Willie’s, the iconic Glendale joint at the corner of Colorado Boulevard and Virginia Avenue, is endeavoring to build a better strip club. As explained in this week’s cover story, “Fantasy Island,” the intersection where Shotgun Willie’s sits is being widened to help with traffic flow to the nearby SuperTarget…
Last week we reported that Representative Jared Polis had gone to court to try stopping a gas drilling operation on property adjacent to a farm he owns near Berthoud. The congressman abruptly withdrew that lawsuit, but that doesn’t mean he’s resigned to getting fracked. Instead, he’s put out a four-minute…
Oil and gas execs are gearing up for next week’s 25th annual Rocky Mountain Energy Summit in Denver, a four-day back-slapping celebration of the boom in hydraulic fracturing — or the “Shale Revolution,” as the true believers call it. But even as the industry ogles the vast reserves of natural…
Just over six months ago, we shared a post featuring the five most expensive homes for sale in Denver, as featured on The Home Cart website. Checking back in, we discovered that three of the five are no longer listed — a sign of the improving economy? — while two…
A coalition of several dozen grassroots consumer, environmental, business and farming groups is pushing for the resignation of Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission director Matt Lepore, after his off-the-cuff comments last week referring to anti-fracking activists as essentially rich and clueless. Meanwhile a fracking critic who could be described…
