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Concept plan submissions surged in final weeks before June 30 deadline

Thomas Gounley July 5, 2022

Developers race to avoid Denver's housing mandate

Denver gave developers a chance to avoid a new income-restricted housing mandate and plenty of firms wanted to be grandfathered in.

Construction taking off at Centennial Airport as business travel rebounds

Lily O'Neill July 5, 2022

Construction underway at Centennial Airport

“Developers have been waiting in the wings,” said the airport CEO. “Once they started to see air travel come back in a big way, the plans began to snowball.”

Aimco spinoff plans 53-story tower rising from downtown buildings

Thomas Gounley July 1, 2022

Apartment tower planned for downtown Denver

The entire project, including the 158 apartments in the existing nine-story Boston building and eight-story Kistler building, would have a total of 585 units.

‘An administrative nightmare’: Wayfair fights $600K Lakewood sales tax bill

Justin Wingerter June 28, 2022

The online retailer claims in a lawsuit that a 3 percent sales tax places “an undue burden on interstate commerce.” Lakewood declined to comment.

Council approves public financing for East Colfax hotel project

Matt Geiger June 23, 2022

Denver OKs public financing for Denver hotel project

Brian Toerber plans to renovate and add on to the 63-year-old All In Motel, and turn it into a boutique hotel charging triple the current daily rate.

Council approves Edens’ rezoning request for VOA block in RiNo

Thomas Gounley June 22, 2022

Edens buys RiNo land for project in Denver

The developer plans to build five-to-seven-story buildings with about 85,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space topped by about 380 residential units.