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Our story recapping recent action on Broadway, particularly regarding bicycles on Broadway and the city’s pilot bike-lane project, has readers on a roll.

After wrestling for years with how to improve the image of the 16th Street Mall, the City of Denver and the Regional Transportation District are kicking of the next phase of planning for its future.

Denver’s economy is booming, yet blue-collar and service workers who rent in the Mile High City’s metro area have less money after paying for housing today than they did ten years ago, according to a new study. And the woman who oversaw the report says there’s no indication that the situation will improve anytime soon.

Metropolitan State University has been on a building binge. Metro has recently added a Student Academic Success Center, a Marriott Springhill Suites location with an academic hospitality school, and a massive sports complex for both collegiate teams and student exercise on the Auraria campus. On Thursday, June 22, Metro celebrated the completion and opening of its latest project, the Aerospace and Engineering Sciences Building.

A dozen years after Westword did its first profile of Broadway, we returned to this “magnificent thoroughfare” and detailed how Denver’s booming economy has affected the road from top to bottom. But there’s no development that captures the public’s imagination — and anger — more than the pilot bicycle-lane project,

Neil Gorsuch, who was sworn in as a U.S. Supreme Court justice in April, is selling his Boulder County home. The property is described as a “Horse Lovers Paradise,” and if it sells for anything near the asking price of $1.675 million, it should add considerably to the net worth of Gorsuch, who may already be the wealthiest member of the Supreme Court.

Metro Denver is currently the least affordable market in the country for first-time home buyers, according to newly released statistics. Major factors include millennial newcomers whose willingness to pay more is boosting prices higher and higher and higher.

The Ballpark neighborhood has weathered some tough times in recent years. Lately, though, the neighborhood has been re-energized, with a push to create a business improvement district.  And now it looks like the city has a hit with The Square on 21st, a new summer pop-up park on 21st Street.

Scott Pack has been indicted by an Arapahoe County grand jury for what attorney Matthew Buck has called “the largest fraud case in the history of Colorado’s marijuana industry.” Buck, who filed a lawsuit in the matter earlier this year, says the grand jury’s findings tie Pack to what prosecutors describe as a massive operation that grew marijuana for distribution outside Colorado and previously led to the indictment of sixteen people, including Pack associate Rudy Saenz. Among those reportedly indicted along with Pack is Renee Rayton, a former officer for the state’s Marijuana Enforcement Division.

Like the rest of Denver, Broadway is booming. As you travel one of the city’s “great thoroughfares” from north to south,and back again, you pass through the city’s past…and see glimpses of its future.

The first city-endorsed tiny homes project, Beloved Community Village at 38th and Walnut streets in RiNo, just received a big financial boost that might help push it to the construction finish line. The Barton Institute for Philanthropy and Social Enterprise gave the settlement a grant of $20,000, and committed to another $20,000 in matching funds.

The Denver Post, which announced in May that the paper’s newsroom will be moving out of its iconic Denver address, at 101 West Colfax Avenue, to the newspaper’s printing facility in Adams County, at the intersection of 58th Avenue and Washington Street, has agreed to sublease the space to the City of Denver for use as employee offices. By year’s end, in all likelihood, an area once devoted to keeping the government accountable will be occupied by workers from the government itself.

A court victory by two Colorado landowners who complained that the smell from a nearby marijuana grow made horse riding on their property less pleasant advances a strategy, based on federal racketeering laws, that anti-marijuana forces hope will help them to destroy the marijuana industry here and throughout the country.

It’s been more than nine months since the Denver Broncos were officially granted naming rights to Mile High Stadium following the bankruptcy of Sports Authority, the company that previously held them. Thus far, no business has stepped in to fill the void, and while a marketing expert believes a rights agreement will likely be reached prior to the start of the 2017-2018 regular season, he thinks smaller, less stable firms should stay away lest they suffer the same fate as Sports Authority, whose doom, he says, was hastened by the deal.

It’s a beautiful late spring day in Colorado, a good time to get to one of the festivals in town or head to open space, where you can stop, smell the wild roses and forget the challenges of living in Denver.

Denver rent prices, which seemed to be stabilizing earlier this year after a long stretch of increases, have now risen for the fourth consecutive month, according to a new report from ApartmentList.com. Prices are up on a year-to-year basis in ten out of ten metro-Denver areas surveyed by the site.

The mere idea of 40,000 spiders in a room is a nightmare for most people. But for Paula Cushing, arachnid enthusiast and researcher, it means that the Colorado Spider Survey has been a success.

A new study estimates that it will take Denver millennials sixteen years to save enough to cover a down payment on a home. The reasons go beyond how difficult it is for young people to make a living in Denver despite the strong economy to include the failure of wages to keep up with housing costs, poor saving habits and misunderstandings about how much money it will take to purchase a house or condominium right now.

Yet another survey confirms what we already know: Denver is the most popular place to move to in the United States. At least, so said 1,000 respondents in a recent nationwide survey compiled by the real estate website homes.com. Choosing between six major U.S. cities — Denver, Los Angeles, New York City,…

The National Western Center is galloping ahead with plans to become a year-round destination and regional asset, and recently sent a survey to stakeholders, geared toward creating a unified brand for the billion-dollar project.

Stats about Denver’s scorching hot (read: nearly impossible to enter) housing market abound, but I didn’t truly understand how crazy things were until my husband and I started looking ourselves. The first time we toured a crap hole and learned later the house had 22 offers — most over asking price —…