Category: Business
Pueblo County chafes at energy plan, wants Trump order to keep coal burning
A plan by Xcel Energy to acquire billions of dollars worth of new power sources and shut its coal plants has won the backing of state regulators – but has infuriated leaders in Pueblo County, home to what would be Colorado’s last coal power station. The county commissioners have filed a document with the Colorado…
Read MoreFederal appeals court allows Vail to ban UPS, FedEx trucks from pedestrian malls
Vail can once again prohibit delivery trucks from its pedestrian malls, a federal appeals court has ruled, overturning a Denver judge’s decision last year that put a stop to that ban. A divided panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided Aug. 29 that laws regulating the trucking industry do not prevent the resort town from…
Read MoreNearly 90-year-old warehouse in Denver’s RiNo neighborhood sells for $1.9M
A 6,000-square-foot warehouse in Denver’s RiNo that sits next to one of the neighborhood’s new office buildings has sold. The nearly 90-year-old building at 3440 Walnut St. on a 6,250-square-foot lot sold late last month for just under $1.9 million, according to public records. That works out to $311 a square foot based on the…
Read MoreNative American Bank buys $4M Broadway site, eyes new corporate headquarters
Tom Ogaard’s bank has financed everything from fishing boats to grocery stores in Indian Country. Its next project may come in someplace a little more urban. “When I got here, we had 16 people, and now there’s over 40. We need to think about what it looks like three to five years down the road…
Read MoreGroup14 Engineering moves into new office in Cap Hill as staff grows
Group14 Engineering was an energy consultant with an office space problem. “When I joined, we were about 30 people, and now we’re 75 people. So we just kept trying to shove everybody in and knock down walls, and we’re just at a point where that’s just not working for us anymore,” said Celeste Cizik, one…
Read MoreJudge sides with Lakewood in fee-in-lieu dispute over controversial apartments
The developer of a hotly contested, legislated and litigated apartment project next to Belmar Park must pay Lakewood $1.5 million in development fees, a judge has ruled. Kairoi Residential, of Texas, is constructing a 411-unit apartment complex on 5 acres of private property at the park’s eastern edge. That has led to years of protests…
Read MoreDenver Water may not need land near Burnham Yard under deal with Broncos
Under a deal reached with the Denver Broncos, Denver Water may feel less pressure to acquire the nearly two dozen parcels the utility was pursuing near its campus in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. Denver Water has agreed to sell 25 acres of its 36-acre campus, giving the Broncos a key block of land they need…
Read MoreSafeway to close 10 stores across Colorado by November
Grocery giant Safeway has announced it will close 10 stores across Colorado by November, including locations along the Front Range in Englewood, Northglenn, Denver, Aurora, Fort Collins, Loveland Colorado Springs and on the Eastern Plains in La Junta and Lamar. Safeway recently combined two divisions, and Heather Halpape, director of communications for Safeway’s Mountain West…
Read MoreUS household income rose slightly last year, roughly matching 2019 level
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The income for the typical U.S. household barely rose last year and essentially matched its 2019 peak, the Census Bureau said Tuesday, a stark illustration of the impact that the pandemic inflation spike had on Americans’ finances. Related Articles Pueblo County chafes at energy plan, wants Trump…
Read MoreColorado seeks developer to build on parking lot by Governor’s Mansion
It’s a hot and sunny September morning, and a handful of development professionals are roaming the parking lot at 799 Logan St. in Denver’s Cap Hill neighborhood, across the street from the Governor’s Mansion. Gov. Jared Polis doesn’t live in the building. But he wants others to move in next door. Colorado’s recently created Public-Private…
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