After losing a grocery store and a bowling alley in the last decade, a 63-year-old shopping center at a prominent Wheat Ridge corner is getting new life.
Denver-based real estate firms Quannah Partners and Outpost Investments are in the process of renovating the 59,000-square-foot Paramount Heights Shopping Center at the corner of 26th Avenue and Kipling Street, after purchasing the property early last year.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Spacewalking astronauts ventured out Sunday to install support frames for new, high-efficiency solar panels arriving at the International Space Station later this year.
NASA’s Kate Rubins and Victor Glover put the first set of mounting brackets and struts together, then bolted them into place next to the station’s oldest and most degraded solar wings.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
A decade ago when electric vehicles first appeared on Colorado car lots, buyers typically were green, the environmentalist hue, motivated to save children and other living things.
Auto dealer Sean Tynan recalled a couple in their 50s, professors, inspecting a Nissan Leaf 31 times over two months.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment on Friday launched a new online dashboard that provides the unemployed with information on computer system glitches that may affect payments, call center traffic, fraud holds and other problems that could impact benefits.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareUnited Airlines is rolling out a new offering at Denver International Airport designed to get Colorado visitors off their planes and into the mountains — or to Larimer County — ASAP.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
WASHINGTON — The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell sharply last week but remained high by historical standards.
Applications for benefits declined 111,000 from the previous week to a seasonally adjusted 730,000, the Labor Department said Thursday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
A long, sometimes agonizing wait for federal unemployment payments to restart in Colorado came to an end for another 135,000 people over the last four days.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareTattered Cover is closing a chapter on its presence in LoDo.
The bookshop chain’s 12,500-square-foot store on the corner of Wynkoop and 16th streets will shut down on March 17, according to new owner Kwame Spearman.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
As the temperatures plummeted in Texas last week knocking refineries out of commission, gasoline prices jumped in Colorado and other states.
The average price increase in Colorado was 7 cents, AAA said Monday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The Federal Aviation Administration on Sunday decided to order increased safety inspections for the type of engine that caught fire and spewed debris over a northern Denver suburb Saturday.
“We reviewed all available safety data following yesterday’s incident,” Administrator Steve Dickson said in a statement.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
COLUMBUS, Ohio — With the floodgates set to open on another round of unemployment aid, states are being hammered with a new wave of fraud as they scramble to update security systems and block scammers who already have siphoned billions of dollars from pandemic-related jobless programs.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareIt was late Friday afternoon when Roger received a call from his lawyer. Roger had sold his business almost two months earlier for $7.54 million. His lawyer told him that the buyer wanted a purchase price adjustment.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
When Kassi Horton’s husband, Army Staff Sgt. Shaun Horton, received a cross-country change in assignment in the midst of a pandemic, she knew their homebuying process would be atypical.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareWASHINGTON — Bouncing back from months of retrenchment, America’s consumers stepped up their spending by a solid 2.4% in January, the sharpest increase in seven months and a sign that the economy may be poised to sustain a recovery from the pandemic recession.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Xcel Energy-Colorado, the first electric utility in the country to set a goal of being carbon-free, said Wednesday that it will up the ante by pledging to cut its greenhouse-gas emissions 85% by 2030.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The line stretched for blocks — manned by cops in reflective vests and corralled by orange cones — each vehicle carrying hungry customers hoping to sample a Double-Double with Animal Fries from In-N-Out’s newest Colorado location, which opened Monday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday ordered airlines in the United States to ground planes with the type of engine that blew apart after takeoff from Denver this past weekend until they can be inspected for stress cracks.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
FENTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The viral pandemic has triggered a cascade of price hikes throughout America’s auto industry — a surge that has made both new and used vehicles unaffordable for many.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — After beating bone cancer, Hayley Arceneaux figures rocketing into orbit on SpaceX’s first private flight should be a piece of cosmic cake.
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital announced Monday that the 29-year-old physician assistant — a former patient hired last spring — will launch later this year alongside a billionaire who’s using his purchased spaceflight as a charitable fundraiser.
For investors, inflation is the erosion of your money, a “cancer,” if you will. It is the slow, subtle decline in what your money buys or the purchasing power of your money.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
When COVID-19 started spreading and state and health officials restricted nonessential businesses and activities, the owners of the Colorado Boat Center in Johnstown sat down and wrote three different budgets to prepare for the economic fallout.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
A third U.S. vaccine for COVID-19 — created by Johnson & Johnson, the company best known for producing Band-Aids — is on the way, promising to improve the speed and ease of our path to a post-pandemic world.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareFor drivers, shifting from gas to a zero-emission electric vehicle means weighing steeper up-front costs against climate benefits and long-term money saved.
EVs don’t need gas, and studies have found they typically require less maintenance with no oil changes and only tires, brakes and batteries — usually good for 100,000 miles –to replace.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Just as Colorado’s labor department distributes millions of dollars in federal unemployment benefits, the programs that provided that money to out-of-work Coloradans are set to expire and send thousands of people back into economic uncertainty just as they catch up on bills.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
A new report shows that Colorado companies are making progress on increasing the number of women on boards, reaching a percentage that is on par with the national average after nearly a decade of tracking the numbers.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareSome Colorado restaurants and bars will be able to indefinitely offer alcohol for takeout and delivery if a bipartisan bill passes in the legislature this year, although a major liquor store group is so far opposing the plan.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
As state regulators look into the high costs utilities paid last week to keep people warm and keep the lights on, Gov. Jared Polis has issued a strong warning against passing along “unexpected exceptional costs” to customers.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe Broadmoor continues its reign at the top. The Colorado Springs hotel was named a Forbes five-star hotel in 2021, maintaining the rating for 61 consecutive years.
With the Penrose Room and the Broadmoor Spa onsite, it is Colorado’s only triple Forbes five-star award-winning property.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Colorado’s third In-N-Out location will open Monday at 10 a.m. The fast-food restaurant is opening its doors at 9171 W. Westview Road, near Park Meadows Mall in Lone Tree.
In-N-Out Burger will staff about 80 people at this location.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Colorado Rockies co-owner Dick Monfort’s McGregor Square development next door to Coors Field has dealt with COVID-19 delays, a lost shipping container and now angry Rockies fans.
The late-January trade of superstar third baseman and face of the franchise Nolan Arenado ratcheted up fan scrutiny on the owner’s involvement in the three-building project south of the ballpark.