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The fitness chain Solidcore has secured a spot in Cherry Creek for its third Denver location. The Virginia-based company expanded to Denver in 2022, opening first in RiNo and then on LoHi’s Platte Street. Two years later, the firm is preparing to open at 255 Fillmore St. Solidcore signed a 10-year lease for 1,900 square feet on the ground floor of the office building developed by Matt Joblon’s Denver-based BMC Investments. BMC completed the building last year. Joshua Rainey, Solidcore’s director of real estate, said that…

On the last day of January, an all-hands meeting was called at Empower Advisory Group, the financial planning division of the massive Greenwood Village-based company. Nine financial advisors for Empower’s wealthy clients had unexpectedly resigned en masse five days before and the company was scrambling to understand what it all meant. What it didn’t know then but believes now is that there were corporate spies at the meeting. On March 1, four more financial advisors resigned abruptly — what Empower called “a second wave”…

The fires are out at Tilford’s Wood Fired Pizza. The business, one of the original concepts in Edgewater Public Market, closed its doors and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy as Tilford’s Edgewater LLC on March 1. Chapter 7 bankruptcies are typically a liquidation process, where a trustee is appointed to oversee a selloff of the debtor’s assets. Tilford’s owes $605,939 to 14 creditors, according to court filings, and has assets worth $18,326. Burton and his wife opened Tilford’s Wood Fired Pizza as a food truck in 2016…

Two firms developing a RiNo apartment building with a greenery-filled “canyon” now own an adjacent property. The 3911 and 3963 Walnut St. parcels, which combined are 0.93 acres, sold last week to Washington D.C.-based Uplands Real Estate Partners and Denver-based Wynne Yasmer Real Estate, operating as 40th & Walnut Project LLC. The properties have a handful of industrial buildings on them. The sale price was $9 million, or $221 a square foot. Uplands and Wynne Yasmer submitted development plans for the site in early…

In 2018, Justin Riley went to a plumbing warehouse in a remote part of north Denver to pick up some equipment for a new business he was starting, Improper City. Six years later, he has returned for his next project – transforming the warehouse itself. Riley, 36, and his team of Giovanni Leone, 31, and Colton Cartwright, 33, plan to convert the 62,000-square-foot building at 3625 E. 48th Ave. — northwest of Colorado Boulevard and Interstate 70 — into a destination for Denverites. Dubbed “Moodswing,” the business will be an…

A Denver couple is looking to bring the city together with their food. It’s literally in the name. Sara Hamid and her husband, Nasr Ahmed, plan on opening Sawa at 1737 E. Evans Ave. by DU this March. The name translates to “together” in Arabic and is an homage to the wide variety of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cultures that their food comes from. “You’re going to eat the best hummus of your life (here), I guarantee it,” Ahmed said. The eatery, which the couple claims is the first Mediterranean/Middle Eastern buffet…

State regulators can continue freezing the bank accounts of an online pastor from Denver and his wife who have admitted selling millions of dollars in worthless cryptocurrency. Denver District Court Judge David Goldberg ruled Monday that Eli and Kaitlyn Regalado, along with their companies and church, cannot access their allegedly ill-gotten gains. He also barred the local couple from selling their cryptocurrency or other investments in Colorado. “This case is a sad case for me. It’s one of the more egregious cases I have…

Devon Toews, who signed a seven-year contract extension with the NHL’s Colorado Avalanche in October, listed his 6,185-square-foot Belcaro mansion on Jan. 11 for $4 million. Toews and his wife, Kerry, bought the 860 block S. Steele St. mansion for $2.9 million in March 2021. Constructed in 2020, the six-bedroom, five-bath home has two fireplaces. The open floor plan on the first floor includes a kitchen with an island, dining area, living room and office space. The second floor features a primary suite with a five-piece…

Speaking to online followers Aug. 22, 2022, Rev. Eli Regalado had a divine message. “It was last October that the Lord brought this cryptocurrency to me. He said, ‘Take this to my people for a wealth transfer.’ It has been confirmed a hundred times since,” the pastor said, according to a lawsuit filed in Denver this week. “It is coming, people,” he said. “Part of the making way for His people is to really train them up and teach them how finances work in the kingdom because many of you very soon are going to have more…

A 6-year-old brewery in Greenwood Village is getting new owners. Jake Minturn and Doug Hyndman, owners of Downhill Brewing in Parker, are acquiring Peak View Brewery at 9672 E. Arapahoe Road, public records show. According to a liquor license application submitted to Greenwood Village, which BusinessDen obtained in a records request, Downhill is purchasing the brewery for $410,000. The lease for the 4,100-square-foot space was transferred to Downhill in August. The Greenwood Village City Council approved the duo’s…