Tag: Downtown Denver Partnership
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Denver’s NYE rooftop fireworks elevate unique opportunity for show producers
Longtime fireworks designer Zach Taminosian produces many shows across the country, but he said few compare to his annual New Year’s Eve tradition: launching fireworks from two rooftops in downtown Denver. It’s a tradition that, for the last 25 years, has celebrated the new year in proper Mile High City style. “We try to make…
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Denver’s Tami Door will lead a downtown again, this time Boulder’s
Tami Door, the former chief executive of the Downtown Denver Partnership, is getting back into downtown management for another major city in the metro region — at least for a little bit. The Downtown Boulder Partnership named Door as its new interim CEO, taking over from Bettina Swigger who has led the organization for two…
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Golden’s ban on amplified music could push buskers to Denver’s 16th Street
On a picture-perfect Sunday, hundreds of people flooded downtown Golden with river tubes and shopping bags. But one thing was missing — music. Washington Avenue, a place where locals play live music on street corners, was quiet on Aug. 3, just three days after Golden began enforcing a new ordinance banning amplified music on public right-of-ways.…
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Marielena DeSanctis named sole finalist for Colorado Community College System’s top position
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Community College of Denver’s president will soon lead all of Colorado’s public community colleges. Marielena DeSanctis was named the sole finalist to succeed Joe Garcia as the Colorado Community College System’s chancellor Tuesday. Garcia announced his retirement in February and the system began a…
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Thousands visit new-look 16th Street during summer kickoff
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save On a sunny weekend in downtown Denver, thousands of residents took in the new-look 16th Street corridor as the area celebrated a new beginning. “Out of the 15 years I’ve lived here, this is the most people I’ve ever seen outside,” Appaloosa Grill Manager Heather…
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16th Street Mall ‘activities,’ a park and DPD liability settlement on council agenda
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Denver City Council members will consider a $1.5 million amendment to a contract with the Downtown Denver Partnership, Inc. to provide activities related to the reopening of the 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver. The amendment, if approved, will bring the contract’s new total to $1.9 million. Looks like the city of Denver may be…
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Two business Denver groups throw support behind sales tax increases
Two prominent Denver entities representing business interests are backing a proposal to increase the sales tax in order to help fund the operations of Denver Health. One of the business groups also threw its support behind Mayor Mike Johnston’s push to also hike the city sales tax in order to fund “affordable housing.” All…
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Denver business groups quiet on proposed sales tax increases
Editor’s Note: This story has been update to reflect the positions of the Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce, which decided to support one sales tax rate increase proposal, and the Downtown Denver Partnership, which is now backing both tax hikes, in the time between initial interviews and this story’s publication. Denver voters will decide the…
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Downtown Denver seeks funding to refill 16th Street Mall’s empty shops
Denver is looking to use the last of its American Rescue Plan Act money for downtown’s recovery exclusively for 16th Street Mall. Small businesses operating in the downtown attraction were first hit by the pandemic and further disrupted by 16th Street Mall’s drawn-out renovation construction project, leading to closures and nearly a third of ground-floor shops…
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Denver Mayor Mike Johnston claims city exceeded goal to reduce permitting time by 30%
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denver Mayor Mike Johnston said his administration has exceeded one of his campaign goals to cut permit review times for certain projects by a third. He previously committed to reducing residential and commercial permitting review times by 30%. Johnston attributed the success to a “tiger…