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RiNo will soon be home to members-only dog park and bar 

A membership-based dog club Skiptown is coming to Denver.

Skiptown will open a dog park, bar and pet care center in late summer, the company announced, in the River North Arts District (RiNo).

Plans call for a 50,000 square foot facility within the York Street Yards. It’ll have both an indoor and outdoor off-leash dog park with splash pad. Dog owners can let their dogs go play while they go to the beer garden with a menu full of local beers, craft cocktails, wines and locally-roasted coffee, according to a news release.

The pet care services for members include daycare, overnight boarding, grooming salon, 24-hour supervision for dogs and a training studio.

Skiptown also has locations in Atlanta and Charlotte, N. C.

VIP memberships are $420 a year, though Skiptown is offering a 30% discount in June. The facility also offers free memberships but requires every guest to create a profile of their dog through their app with updated veterinary records.

New hotel in Belleview Station announces restaurant and rooftop bar

Kimpton Claret Hotel — a new resort set to open next month in the Belleview Station area — announced it will include a modern Italian-American restaurant called Saverina and a global-inspired rooftop bar Halo.

Both will be helmed by Chef Christian Graves, a culinary veteran in Denver for more than a decade.

Saverina, Italian for “new house,” will have a menu serving rustic food made from local, seasonal and organic ingredients. It will feature housemade pasta and sourdough pizzas, according to a news release.

“At Saverina we embrace the best of Italy while incorporating the seasonality of Colorado into our cooking,” Graves said in a statement.

Meanwhile, the Halo Rooftop Bar will offer panoramic views of the Rocky Mountains and South Denver on the hotel’s 19th floor. It’ll have an outdoor terrace with fire pits and lounge seating.

The bar will serve “food-in-hand” items on its menu such as “crack wings,” duck liver mousse, brisket griddle burger, and spicy salt and pepper pork belly.

Lockheed Martin wins $2.27 billion contract for weather satellite

NASA wants Lockheed Martin to develop more weather satellites.

The aerospace company with a campus in Littleton received a $2.27 billion contract from NASA, Lockheed Martin announced. It’s tasked with building the next generation of weather satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The contract is for three spacecraft with an option for an extra one, according to the news release.

Lockheed Martin already developed the GOES-R series of weather satellites for NASA that detects lightning strikes, measures land and ocean surface temperatures as well as tracking volcanic eruptions and wildfires. The new contract will expand the capabilities of the GOES-R satellites.

The last satellite in the GOES series is scheduled to launch Tuesday out of Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The next generation is called GeoXO and is set to have more accurate weather forecasting and capabilities targeting environmental issues that may affect the U.S. economy, the statement said.

“Our GeoXO design draws heavily from what we’ve learned with GOES-R spacecraft over the last 15 years,” said Kyle Griffin, Lockheed Martin’s vice president and general manager of commercial civil space, in a statement, “while incorporating new, digital technologies not only onboard the vehicles but in the design and development of this powerful, weather-monitoring platform of the future.”

The spacecraft’s instruments will have real-time mapping of the state of the atmosphere, severe convection monitoring to enhance lightning detection and observations targeting coastal communities’ ecosystems.

The first edition of the weather satellite is set to launch in 2030.

BERNADETTE BERDYCHOWSKI, The Denver Gazette