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As another season of tubing down Clear Creek in Golden beckons, the city is considering a novel approach to controlling the crowds that descend on the popular waterway: a reservation system. The discussions are still in the early stages and the system, if it moves forward, wouldn’t be implemented until 2025. But the mere idea of requiring people to sign up for a float down Clear Creek is a testament to the increasing number of people Golden has had to manage on the water in recent years, especially in the wake of a…

When Gov. Jared Polis and Democratic allies sought to overhaul land use rules in the state last year in hopes of spurring more housing development they faced immediate blowback from municipalities intent on protecting their local control. Seeking housing solutions From the mountains to the prairies, Colorado’s housing crisis is squeezing state residents in ways that make drastic choices an all-too-common part of their cost-of-living calculus. Click here to read more from this series. But one Front Range city publicly…

From the mountains to the prairies, Colorado’s housing crisis is squeezing state residents in ways that make drastic choices an all-too-common part of their cost-of-living calculus. Colorado faces a shortfall of 100,000 homes and apartments, the second worst deficit of any state after California, according to a study last year from Up for Growth. A homebuyer misery index from the Common Sense Institute found households in the state’s largest counties facing record-high levels of stress. When The Denver Post put out a call…

Colorado ranked sixth worst among U.S. states when it came to job creation last year, according to estimates from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. But was that weakness a statewide issue or a more localized problem? Job losses, assuming they hold following revisions due out next month, were primarily centered in metro Denver with Pueblo. Fort Collins had one of the strongest metro economies when it came to adding jobs last year, with Colorado Springs and Boulder in the top tier as well. Metro Denver suffered a 0.9%…

Colorado-born Ball Aerospace has a new owner, a new name and what the company hopes will be a growing global customer base. But Dave Kaufman, president of the company now called Space & Mission Systems, said the nearly 70-year-old business is “staying put” in Colorado. BAE Systems PLC, a British arms, security and aerospace company, closed the $5.5 billion acquisition of Ball Aerospace from Ball Corp. on Friday, Feb. 16. Kaufman, previously Ball Aerospace president and a Ball Corp. senior vice president, removed a…

Coloradans looking for excellent whiskey don’t need to look far. That’s according to the judges at the Whisky Magazine Awards, who recently honored several local distilleries in its nationwide competition. Laws Whiskey House’s Four Grain Bourbon Cask Strength was named the best single-barrel bourbon (non-Kentucky) at the 2024 Whisky Magazine Awards.(Provided by Laws Whiskey House) Six Colorado spirits makers earned accolades in categories such as best finished bourbon made outside of Kentucky and best single-cask,…

The priciest home sales in the Denver metro last month included two midcentury modern homes in Boulder, as well as two condos in the same building at the edge of Cherry Creek and Belcaro. At the No. 1 spot was on the 200 block of Cactus Court in Boulder. DSH Management Trust purchased the property for $6 million from Smith Taro and Amy Lee Ippoliti, records show. The midcentury modern remodeled by Brad Burch at IndexAD features views of Boulder and the mountains and backs to open space. The 3,907-square-foot home includes…

Colorado homebuyers couldn’t catch a break last year, having to juggle mortgage rates approaching 8% by early fall and home prices that remained stubbornly high despite reduced affordability. Home and condo sales dropped nearly 20% last year and sales times stretched out by an additional week to 62 days on average, according to 2023 counts from the Colorado Association of Realtors. But higher rates didn’t cause prices to fall in a meaningful way or boost the inventory of listing, leaving buyers in a tough spot. Looking at…

On a sunny morning last winter, I found myself facing an oh-so-Colorado predicament. My friend Tom was visiting from Michigan and he wanted to go skiing. Of course I wanted to go with him, but I had two non-negotiable work deadlines to meet that day. What to do? Take my work to the ski area, of course. As Tom loaded up the ski gear, I packed my laptop and charger. We made our way up Boulder Canyon and arrived at Eldora Mountain a little before 9 a.m. While Tom skied over to the chairlift, I found a cozy corner in the West…

Deion Sanders still doesn’t have a defensive coordinator. He also doesn’t technically have his gifted Colorado dream house … yet. In a viral video posted by Deion Sanders Jr.’s Well Off Media channel last weekend, the CU football coach and Pro Football Hall of Famer was shown around a home worth $7.2 million between Boulder and Golden near Highway 93. Multiple outlets reported that the property had been purchased by the coach’s sons as a gift to him. However, records indicate it was still listed for purchase as of early…