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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…

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…

Barbie’s living the dream and cruising along the West Coast, with plans to stop in the Bay Area this month. The Barbie Dreamhouse Living Tour, a truck that provides a selfie and shopping experience, will roll into San Jose this weekend (the day before the Oscars; crossing pink-nailed fingers!) followed by Walnut Creek and Pleasanton later this month. It’s a pink merch extravaganza. The truck will sell Barbie-themed apparel, accessories and home decor ranging from hats, hoodies and necklaces to dinner plates, glassware and…

Firefighters battle flames from the Smokehouse Creek fire on March 03, 2024 near Sanford, Texas. | Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images Electric utility Xcel Energy admits that its equipment likely helped ignite the devastating Smokehouse Creek Fire that’s blazed across Texas since last week. “Xcel Energy has been cooperating with the investigations into the wildfires and has been conducting its own review. Based on currently available information, Xcel Energy acknowledges that its facilities…

Shawn Lustigman is selling a luxury, gated enclave with two homes within walking distance of Cherry Creek for $8.7 million. After the mobile home park owner bought the brick home at 2880 E. Cedar Ave. 20 years ago, he divided the land into two parcels and built a mansion on the 2800 block of East Cedar Avenue. Now, because he and his family spend most of their time in Florida, he’s selling both homes. “Nobody’s using the house except me for a week to 10 days every month,” Lustigman said. “I thought the kids might use the…

It’s been nearly 44 years since Terry Ten Eyck bought 35 acres at the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon, motivated by a dream of buying up more land and building a community of custom-made luxury homes. After several lawsuits, a failed ballot measure to thwart the development and a cratered real estate scene during the Great Recession, the first two homes in Canyon Pines finally have begun to rise from the ground at the base of Coal Creek Peak. The construction is Arvada’s first major residential foray west of Colorado 93, where…

Another national furniture brand is making its Denver debut in Cherry Creek. Ballard Designs opened its first Colorado showroom at 240 St. Paul St. this week. Ballard secured 4,800 square feet on the ground floor of the six-story office building, which was completed in 2021 by Matt Joblon’s BMC Investments and sold in 2022 to Denver-based Gart Properties. Ballard sells an array of furniture, including kitchen tables, bed frames and sofas, as well as home decor such as wallpaper and drapes. Its sofas range from $900 to…

Deer Creek Golf Course is dying. Where once lay verdant fairways, the 18-hole course near Jefferson County’s Ken Caryl Ranch community is now largely weeds, cattails and long grasses. Nature, inexorably, reclaims its own. No one has played a legitimate round of golf here in three years. The clubhouse sits empty and forlorn, with a four-tiered fountain at its entry now dry and defunct. And though Deer Creek Golf Course claims on its website that it is merely “closed for renovation” and looks forward “to serving you in the…

William H. Macy describes his first visit to the mountains near Aspen, Colorado, as “pretty much love at first sight.” It was sometime in the mid-1980s, Macy recalls, and he was traveling with then-girlfriend Felicity Huffman back to the area where she grew up. “Her mom was a magnificent cook, and they ride horses,” Macy said. “From a middle-class boy, I thought it was beyond the beyond.” These days, the actor is embedded in the local beverage community. He and Huffman own a home and some land in Woody Creek where they…

Valerie and Gil Clausen kept it in the family when they created their Cherry Creek North penthouse in the 250 Columbine building. Valerie, a violinist and retired executive director of the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra, and Gil, a retired gold mining executive, chose the penthouse in 2016 to simplify their lives. They bought the seventh-floor, 4,500-square-foot home for $5 million when the building was unfinished and were able to work with Valerie’s sister Jennifer Tate, principal architect of Tate + Burns in Essex,…