LiveWell Colorado and a network of other nonprofits and government agencies will launch Double Up Food Bucks Colorado on July 1 using a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
A carrot to encourage healthier food stamp use
Capitol Hill
History Colorado names new leader
Museum removes ‘interim’ tag from Steve Turner. His initial goals are to book fewer traveling exhibits and to find more revenue sources.
Countdown at the Sports Castle
The Sports Authority location at 10th and Broadway — known as the Sports Castle — will close for good on Sunday, according to several clerks working at the store.
New CEO named at animal research nonprofit
A Denver-based foundation that funds research into diseases dogging animals has a new Dr. Doolittle.
Chicken shack fills Capitol Hill hole
White Fence Farm is expanding in Denver area, including a site at 9th and Corona that formerly housed an Einstein Bros. Bagel shop
Beer garden proposed for downtown park
Downtown Denver Partnership seeks to attract more year-round visitors to the park, and will get help from Lowry Beer Garden and Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret.
Fast-growing Five Points wants its own Business Improvement District
Five Points is launching a bid for its own business-development group.
Coffee chain dips into bankruptcy
The company formerly had coffee shops at the top of the 16th Street Mall, in Congress Park and near DTC.
Coming unleashed on Santa Fe: rooftop dog bar
Two entrepreneurs in the Santa Fe Arts District think there’s still meat on the bone of a business model that fizzled in Denver last year: the combination of dog park and bar.
Experimental theater piece is a new act and site for DCPA
The Denver Center for the Performing Arts is taking the show on the road – to RiNo.
