Report: Colorado’s economic improvement might be slowing down
Tim Bussey waits outside to get his hair cut at barber Genaro Vasquez's Downtown Barber Shop in Colorado Springs after the shop re-opened May 1.
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Downtown Development Authority to buy Denver Pavilions mall for $37M
Bernadette Berdychowski
bernadette.berdychowski@denvergazette.com
Updated 7 hours ago
The Denver Downtown Development Authority (DDA) on Tuesday approved spending up to $45 million to purchase and upgrade the Denver Pavilions. $37 million of that will go toward purchasing the shopping mall on 16th Street at Glenarm Place, city officials...
Bernadette Berdychowski
Reporter
Denver wants to buy old Goodyear to build affordable housing in heart of downtown
Bernadette Berdychowski
bernadette.berdychowski@denvergazette.com
Updated 9 hours ago
The City and County of Denver is working to close on a deal with the property owners of the former Goodyear auto repair shop in downtown worth $2.5 million. Denver’s finance department asked City Council’s finance and business committee Tuesday...
Bernadette Berdychowski
Reporter
US government on brink of first shutdown in almost 7 years amid partisan standoff in Congress
Mary Clare Jalonick
mary.clare.jalonick@associatedpress.com
Updated 9 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — A partisan standoff over health care and spending is threatening to trigger the first U.S. government shutdown in almost seven years, with Democrats and Republicans in Congress unable to find agreement even as thousands of federal workers...
Mary Clare Jalonick
Reporter
Metro moves: 50-year-old Littleton furniture store plans to shut down
Bernadette Berdychowski
bernadette.berdychowski@denvergazette.com
Updated 9 hours ago
Welcome to the Denver Gazette’s Metro Moves. You’ll get the latest metro Denver openings, closings, hiring and promotion news here. To submit your company’s news, drop an email to bernadette.berdychowski@denvergazette.com. A Littleton furniture store to close after nearly 50 years ZOLi...
Bernadette Berdychowski
Reporter
Volunteers give a makeover to Tiny Town’s century-old miniatures
Mark Samuelson
mark-samuelson@denvergazette.com
Updated 3 days ago
When Dale Fischer’s grandkids returned from a class trip up to Tiny Town last month, they gave their granddad a mixed review on the century-old miniature municipality. The little town and its scaled-down railroad line off U.S. 285 in the...
Mark Samuelson
Reporter
FlatIron Crossing building entertainment district — and luring new stores
Bernadette Berdychowski
bernadette.berdychowski@denvergazette.com
Updated 4 days ago
The FlatIron Crossing shopping mall in Broomfield off of U.S. Highway 36 features views of picturesque snow-capped mountains and now dirt mounds similar in shape to the peaks that inspired its name. The parking lots in front of the mall’s...
Bernadette Berdychowski
Reporter
Iconic truck stop changes hands near old Stapleton Airport site
Mark Samuelson
mark-samuelson@denvergazette.com
Updated 3 days ago
Long after Stapleton International Airport was bulldozed, two of the last remaining landmarks of the era are giant signs standing a half mile north of the freeway, beckoning truck drivers to stop for food and fuel. Now one of those...
Mark Samuelson
Reporter
Colorado-built Dream Chaser loses NASA missions, delayed again
Bernadette Berdychowski
bernadette.berdychowski@denvergazette.com
Updated 5 days ago
The Dream Chaser, the long-awaited reusable spaceplane inspired by the Space Shuttle, could be chasing its own dreams for a little while longer. NASA announced on Thursday that it significantly changed the terms of the contract it awarded in 2016...
Bernadette Berdychowski
Reporter
Starbucks to close stores, lay off 900 workers as part of turnaround plan
Dee-ann Durbin
dee-ann.durbin@associatedpress.com
Updated 1 day ago
Starbucks is laying off around 900 non-retail employees and closing some U.S. and Canadian stores as it focuses more of its resources on a turnaround. The Seattle coffee giant will notify employees whose positions are being eliminated early Friday and...
Dee-ann Durbin
Reporter
Western governors’ eye nuclear for power demand
Scott Weiser
scott-weiser@denvergazette.com
Updated 6 days ago
The Western Governors’ Association’s two-day “Energy Superabundance” workshop this week brought together Gov. Brad Little of Idaho and Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah with federal regulators, utility executives, investors and supply-chain managers. The workshop in Idaho Falls focused on nuclear...
Scott Weiser
Reporter