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Brown Palace Hotel and Spa bringing changes to dining

One of downtown Denver’s most historic hotels is launching a new dining experience under a new management company.

The Brown Palace Hotel and Spa, opened in 1892, announced last week it will offer a three-course prix fixe menu for $49 called Le Palais Frites inside of its Palace Arms restaurant.

Palace Arms closed briefly last year. A new management company Highgate Hotels took over earlier this year, saying the course special available for a limited time is one of their first initiatives to lure both hotel guests and Denver locals back to the historic dining destination.

“Le Palais Frites is our way of welcoming Denver back in,” said Regional Vice President of Food & Beverage David Varley in a press release. “We want locals to feel like The Brown is theirs again — a place to drop in, share a great meal, and make new memories in a place full of old ones.”

The menu will be seasonal with options such as Gotham Greens Market Salad, Creekstone Flatiron steak, half chicken with 40 cloves of garlic or roasted portobello mushrooms with cognac sauce au poivre. As per the restaurant’s traditions, entrees will be served with duck fat fries. The meal ends with a classic napoleon for dessert.

Le Palais Frites will be offered Tuesday through Sunday from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. beginning on Tuesday, July 15.

Local Christian radio stations name new executive

Pillar Media has a new chief operating officer to run its stations in the metro Denver area.

The nonprofit radio announced Tim Hager will oversee STAR 101.5 (KSRC), THE NEW FLO 107.1 (KFCO), AM910 (KPOF), STAR 99.1 (WAWZ), STAR 93.3 (WAKW).

KPOF, STAR 101.5 and THE NEW FLO 107.1 serve the Denver metro area with inspirational music, contemporary Christian music and Christian Hip Hop, respectively.

Hager will succeed Dick Whitworth, who is retiring after 50 years in the Christian radio industry.

His new role based in Aurora, Colo. begins Wednesday.

“We are excited to welcome Tim Hager as chief operating officer of Pillar Media,” said Art Garza, executive director of Pillar Media, in a press release. “His proven leadership in media, executive experience and heart for ministry make him an ideal fit to help advance our mission.”

Before Pillar Media, Tim Hager served as CEO of American Financing and was a former president of the Rocky Mountain Region for iHeartMedia.

Health tech campus hires new COO

Fitzsimons Innovation Community, the health and science technology campus near the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, named a new executive.

The organization running the hub announced it hired Kenneth Ho as its new chief operating officer to bring its master plan to life.

Fitzsimons Innovation Community is working to build a mixed-use neighborhood with more than 7,000 residential units as it continues to develop more research and laboratory space. It also aims to bring more retail, entertainment and dining to the area.

“I’m honored to join Fitzsimons Innovation Community at such a pivotal moment,” Ho said in a press release. “The vision for this campus aligns with my passion for strengthening communities through thoughtful revitalization from housing to parks and community gathering spaces.”

Before joining the community, Ho has more than two decades of real estate and investment experience.

He got a degree in urban planning from Stanford University and has a master’s degree in urban and regional planning, business administration from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

He has worked at Craft Companies, Westside Investment Partners, Lennar Multifamily Communities (now Quarterra), Denver International Airport, Trammell Crow Company, and Cherokee Investment Partners.

“With the approval of our Master Plan, the path is clear for us to accelerate implementation of our vision for the future,” Kelly Jean Brough, president and CEO of Fitzsimons Innovation Community, said in the announcement. “There is nobody better to lead this work and take the next step in transforming Fitzsimons into a hub for health than Kenneth.”

BERNADETTE BERDYCHOWSKI/The Denver Gazette