Author: By Mark Samuelson Special to The Denver Gazette
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Empty shops and offices: Can downtown Denver come back?
Some experts wonder if downtown could reclaim its old glory, though they add it holds cards that can lure tenants and their employees into giving the central business district a fresh look
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National Western Stock Show staple and crowd favorite: mutton bustin’
Rodeo cowboys tend to be cool customers as they climb into their mounts. “It’s just another horse,” said bareback bronc rider Clay Stone, 25, from Blackfoot, Idaho, as he readied to ride before a packed Coliseum crowd Monday. Not so, for the National Western’s youngest riding competitors — five-to-seven-year-old children featured in the rodeo’s ever-popular…
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Colorblind: Rodeo regulars form family regardless of race
As it does every year, the National Western Stock Show’s rodeo timed for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday filled the Denver Coliseum Monday night with Black cowboys and cowgirls who roped steers, rode bulls and showed their prowess handling dangerous, careening animals. But at a rodeo that is themed around racial equality, a half…
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Cowboys say culture, values outweigh the risks of rodeo
In a season when people are suddenly focused on very real dangers of competitive sports, you can’t find one where the risks are more vivid than they appear from atop 1,500 pounds of angry saddle bronc, as somebody prepares to open the chute. “It’s not a matter of if you’re going to be hurt, but…
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Cowboys say culture, values outweigh the risks of rodeo
In a season when people are suddenly focused on very real dangers of competitive sports, you can’t find one where the risks are more vivid than they appear from atop 1,500 pounds of angry saddle bronc, as somebody prepares to open the chute. “It’s not a matter of if you’re going to be hurt, but…
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Colorado-based Boom Supersonic tabs new engine design team
Boom Supersonic, the Colorado startup at Centennial Airport that hopes to build the next generation supersonic airplane, unveiled a team of partners to design powerful engines for the sleek craft, according to a Tuesday news release. Boom has taken commitments from American Airlines and two other carriers for a 65-to-80 passenger supersonic airliner. In September the…
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Denver office space market still struggling
At a moment when the waning pandemic might have given hope that workers would head back to the office, new commercial real estate data shows office vacancies continue to rise in Denver. That’s for both the central business district downtown and along the southeast I-25 corridor including the Denver Tech Center, according to new quarterly…
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Eisenhower’s former ‘Cold War retreat’ ranch in Colorado sold
When President Dwight D. Eisenhower looked for an escape from the simmering Cold War in the 1950s, a favorite getaway was a rustic ranch four miles west of Winter Park — accommodations that were a far cry from Palm Beach, Martha’s Vineyard and other retreats that presidents frequent now. Byers Peak Ranch in Fraser, the…
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Eisenhower’s former ‘Cold War retreat’ ranch in Colorado sold for millions
When President Dwight D. Eisenhower looked for an escape from the simmering Cold War in the 1950s, a favorite getaway was a rustic ranch four miles west of Winter Park — accommodations that were a far cry from Palm Beach, Martha’s Vineyard and other retreats that presidents frequent now. Byers Peak Ranch in Fraser, the…
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As renter evictions level out, advocates urge protections
New data from state and Denver County courts suggest that renter evictions are once again rising to their pre-pandemic level in Colorado but are leveling out at what had been a relatively stable range for two decades preceding Covid-19. “It’s been a very stable return to normality and flat over the last four months,” Drew…