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 —…
Stacy Rewitzer and Jo Roby, a pair of flight attendants for Frontier Airlines, are at the center of a federal complaint that accuses the carrier of discriminating against them and their colleagues by not providing adequate accommodations related to pregnancy and breastfeeding, with one plaintiff maintaining that a representative of the carrier told her she’d have to wait approximately ten hours in order to express breast milk. The charges arrive one year after the filing of a similar lawsuit on behalf of four Frontier pilots.
Dozens of readers have weighed in on a recent story, Why It’s So Hard to Make a Living in Denver Despite Strong Economy. David A. posted on Facebook: The pay scale here isn’t keeping up with the rising rents. My first apartment 10 years ago cost me $620 for a…
On Friday morning, May 19, Mayor Michael Hancock and other Denver officials announced at the city’s annual Housing Summit a number of new initiatives to address homelessness, rising rent costs and a lack of affordable housing in Denver. Mayor Hancock opened the summit, which was held at the Hyatt Regency…
A home-bidding tactic known as the escalation clause is currently ubiquitous in Denver’s red hot housing market. But while the clause may give buyers a better chance to land the home of their dreams, a local broker says buyers can wind up financially over their heads if they don’t use it very carefully.
Efforts to calm traffic on West 38th Avenue, Wheat Ridge’s once and future Main Street, have drawn some positive reviews — and confusion, anguish and anger.
The main report in Last Week Tonight With John Oliver’s May 14 episode tore into the kidney dialysis industry, with a particular focus on Denver-based DaVita, a company the HBO host said owes an apology to Taco Bell because of CEO Kent Thiry’s comparisons between his firm’s business practices and the approach of the fast food giant.
Finding that dream house in Denver’s red hot real estate market has become so difficult that one couple has sent a letter to approximately 1,200 homeowners in the Park Hill neighborhood whose properties aren’t for sale in the hope of convincing someone to let them buy their place anyhow.
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Thirty-five years ago, the 16th Street Mall was a shining light in Denver’s tourist scene. Designed by the world-renowned I.M. Pei and Associates, the mall was supposed to be a pedestrian-friendly, well-designed hub of businesses in the heart of the city. But come 2017 and…
The new Denver Renter Confidence Survey from ApartmentList.com reveals that most local renters give the Mile High City excellent marks, placing it among the most highly rated large cities in the country. But there are warning signs in the findings, including great discontent with high rent costs and other daily expenses, as discussed in our recent post “Why It’s So Hard to Make a Living in Denver Despite Strong Economy.”
Experts suggest that the number of real-estate listings in Denver’s red-hot housing market is at an all-time low. But there’s no shortage of real-estate agents looking to sell those homes. Right now, there are more agents than there are properties on the market in Denver, and perhaps as many as ten times more.
Since it opened 35 years ago, the 16th Street Mall has changed the face of downtown Denver. These days, the mall itself looks like it could use a facelift. But there are definitely bright spots along the mall, as well as blight spots. Here are five of each.
In the 35 years since it was created, Denver’s 16th Street Mall has morphed from the heart and soul of downtown Denver into a sometime civic embarrassment showing its age. But $68 million in leftover TIF money could give the place quite a facelift.
The $3 million budget for incentive money to lure filmmakers to Colorado, which had been marked for elimination in March, has instead been slashed to $750,000. Colorado Film Commissioner Donald Zuckerman, who argued in this space for the $3 million figure to be increased last October, is relieved that some money remains for the program. But he sees little chance of attracting big Hollywood productions to the state for the next year as a result of this development.
The costs in the ten most expensive Denver neighborhoods to rent a one-bedroom apartment are at a level associated with the priciest metro-area places for two-bedroom rentals less than two and a half years ago.
More evidence that the Denver area’s housing market remains red hot: Property values in the seven-county Denver metro area are skyrocketing, according to a joint announcement from the assessors in each jurisdiction. The value of residential property in the majority of locations is up by at least 20 percent over the past year, and often considerably more. In addition, the value of property in other categories has risen by as much as 68 percent.
Denver was barely a century old in the go-go ’60s, when eager developers began wiping this city’s past off the map, demolishing old buildings downtown and replacing them with surface parking lots, all in the name of urban renewal. But much of that stopped when Denver City Council approved the Denver Landmark Preservation Ordinance in March 1967, a year after the National Historic Preservation Act was enacted and two years after Dana Crawford began creating Larimer Square.
Forty years after her father bought the historic Zang Mansion, Janet Greiner has sold it for $2 million to a buyer who plans to upgrade the electrical and plumbing systems. It’s bittersweet for Greiner, whose father, Rodney Greiner, died last fall. Greiner says she doesn’t have the time or the…
