Tag: Lower Downtown
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Denver Summit sets up HQ in Lower Downtown
As Denver’s new national women’s soccer team prepares for their first game, its corporate team has officially set up its home turf. Denver Summit FC signed a lease in Lower Downtown for its new corporate headquarters, commercial real estate firm CBRE announced Wednesday. The soccer team’s new home will be located in the Mercantile Square…
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Rockmount — maker of Western wear for rock stars and truckers — turns 80 this year
While most clothing labels follow the latest trends or aim to make new ones, Rockmount Ranch Wear is content with the Western style it fashioned nearly 80 years ago. Its Lower Downtown shop — showcasing the Western wear it spread around the world — is filled with embroidered denim shirts, flashy belt buckles, silk scarves,…
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Loft open Saturday is a block from Union Station, Dairy Block
At a moment when Denver has shined up its 16th Street mall as a centerpiece for what is hoped to be a downtown comeback, brokers Georgia Gallagher and Uschi Brunner have a loft to show Saturday that’s a block off the LoDo end of 16th Street, a quick walk from dining and galleries that never left downtown. At…
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As Rockies limp into All-Star break, loft has Coors view | ON THE HOME FRONT
Four years ago, when the Colorado Rockies owners opened their McGregor Square project across 20th Street from Coors Field, Lower Downtown had arrived at a good-news bad-news moment. The bad news was that the Rocks had already lost 51 games and were 18 games out of first place. The pandemic that shuttered the baseball season…
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What’s up with the downtown Denver trees covered in crochet?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save On a block in Lower Downtown Denver, developers are hoping passersby stop and smell the yarn roses. The trees around 16th Street Mall, Market Street, and Wazee Street, also known as the Sugar Block, are wrapped with little crochet sweaters around their trunks. The botanic…
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Metro Moves: Sistain home décor store opening in LoDo
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 [email protected]. Sistain opening new store A Denver home décor brand with a mission for more sustainable living opened a new store in Lower Downtown (LoDo). Sistain opened…
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San Francisco startup Checkr will lay off 92 workers in Denver HQ
Checkr, a startup offering employee background checks using machine learning and artificial intelligence, is laying off 92 workers in Denver. The company filed a notice to Colorado on Tuesday as legally required by the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, or WARN. The letter said layoffs will begin June 10. “In response to economic conditions…
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LoDo hotspots shut down to traffic for Halloween weekend
In response to concerns from downtown neighborhoods and businesses to the possibility of Halloween street party madness, Denver police are temporarily closing two blocks of LoDo, which have been a hot spot for violence. Vehicle traffic will be non-existent on Market Street between 19th and 20th Streets and Larimer Street between 20th and 21st Streets from 10 p.m. to…
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Teen girl suspected of shooting 5 people in LoDo last month arrested in California
The 17-year-old who was on the run for over a month after shooting five people outside of a lower downtown Denver bar was arrested in Barstow, California on Thursday. Denver Police Fugitive Unit investigators apprehended Keanna Rosenburgh with the help of tips from the community and after further investigation and surveillance. The suspect is in juvenile detention…
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Denver mayor’s proposed budget puts police force ‘full strength’
Denver’s police force would go to “full authorized strength” under Mayor Mike Johnston’s plan to spend $8 million to attract nearly 200 recruits next year, according to the city’s public safety department. Johnston’s 2024 proposed budget earmarks nearly $25 million for public safety, including $8.2 million to hire 167 new recruits. “Mayor Johnston’s budget will…