Denver Post: Business
- New owners giving 63-year-old Wheat Ridge shopping center “some love”
Monday - 03/01/2021 - 05:00 PMAfter 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 - Spacewalking astronauts prep International Space Station for new solar wings
Sunday - 02/28/2021 - 01:49 PMCAPE 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 - Colorado hangs hopes on electric vehicles to combat climate change
Saturday - 02/27/2021 - 08:00 AMA 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 - Colorado labor department launches new dashboard for unemployment information
Friday - 02/26/2021 - 05:33 PMThe 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 | Share - United Airlines introduces direct bus service from DIA to Breckenridge and Loveland
Friday - 02/26/2021 - 07:00 AMUnited 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
- U.S. jobless claims fall to 730,000 but layoffs remain high
Thursday - 02/25/2021 - 09:14 AMWASHINGTON — 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 - 135,000 Coloradans finally tap federal unemployment programs; labor department eyes fixes to more system bugs
Wednesday - 02/24/2021 - 08:00 AMA 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 | Share - Tattered Cover sets closing date for LoDo store ahead of move to new space
Tuesday - 02/23/2021 - 11:01 AMTattered 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 - Freezing temperatures cause spike in Colorado gasoline prices
Monday - 02/22/2021 - 02:42 PMAs 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 - Federal Aviation Administration to order stepped up inspections of engine model that spewed debris over Broomfield
Sunday - 02/21/2021 - 04:25 PMThe 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
- Fraud overwhelms pandemic-related unemployment programs
Sunday - 02/28/2021 - 12:20 PMCOLUMBUS, 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 | Share - Gary Miller: Avoiding buyer-seller disputes that plague almost half of mergers and acquisitions
Sunday - 02/28/2021 - 08:00 AMIt 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
- In the pandemic, online homebuying picks up speed
Saturday - 02/27/2021 - 12:07 AMWhen 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 | Share - U.S. consumers rebound to boost spending 2.4% as income jumps
Friday - 02/26/2021 - 11:50 AMWASHINGTON — 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 ups ante on cutting greenhouse-gas emissions, pledges 85% reduction by 2030
Thursday - 02/25/2021 - 08:00 AMXcel 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
- In-N-Out and Chick-fil-A poised for drive-thru duel on the streets of Lone Tree
Wednesday - 02/24/2021 - 08:02 PMThe 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
- FAA grounds certain planes after engine failure over Denver
Tuesday - 02/23/2021 - 11:08 PMThe 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
- New or used? Either way, price hikes squeeze U.S. auto buyers.
Tuesday - 02/23/2021 - 12:37 PMFENTON 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
- Bone cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux to join billionaire on SpaceX flight
Monday - 02/22/2021 - 09:15 AMCAPE 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.
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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. - Improving Investor Behavior: Overcoming inflation using a familiar friend (Part 2)
Sunday - 02/21/2021 - 08:00 AMFor 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
- Wheels of commerce are rolling, but COVID-19 fallout still causing kinks in supply chains
Monday - 03/01/2021 - 08:00 AMWhen 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
- How the new one-dose COVID-19 vaccine compares to Pfizer and Moderna
Thursday - 02/25/2021 - 12:53 PMA 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 | Share - What you need to know about buying an electric vehicle
Saturday - 02/27/2021 - 08:00 AMFor 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 - “Back in the same boat:” Jobless Coloradans worry Congress will take too long to approve more pandemic economic aid
Friday - 02/26/2021 - 01:15 PMJust 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
- Women’s presence on Colorado corporate boards now on par with national average
Friday - 02/26/2021 - 08:00 AMA 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 | Share - Alcohol to-go could become the norm in Colorado
Tuesday - 02/23/2021 - 08:00 AMSome 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
- Polis urges regulators not to stick Colorado utility customers with bills racked up during deep freeze
Wednesday - 02/24/2021 - 01:26 PMAs 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 | Share - The Broadmoor is Forbes longest-running five-star hotel in the world
Tuesday - 02/23/2021 - 10:07 AMThe 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 - Third Colorado In-N-Out location opening Monday
Monday - 02/22/2021 - 09:05 AMColorado’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 - Rocky road: McGregor Square, the Rockies and The Trade
Sunday - 02/21/2021 - 08:00 AMColorado 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.
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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.