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A Berkeley congregation has completed its real estate exodus. Highlands Lutheran Church sold its roughly 14,000-square-foot church at 3995 N. Irving St. last week for $1.48 million, or about $106 per square foot. It had been listed at $1.75 million. The buyer was Mounashram Inc., a faith-based nonprofit. Attempts to reach the organization were unsuccessful. Highlands Lutheran, which had been on Irving Street for the past century, moved last year to 7375 Samuel Drive, where it is renting a church from the Rocky Mountain…

A Canadian developer planning to build a warm-water attraction next to Arrowhead Golf Course in Douglas County has received a cold reception from neighbors, including the course operator. “A commercial development in this neighborhood would be a colossal disaster. Not just for the wildlife, but for the people who live here,” said Bridget Epp, 64, who’s lived in the community for eight years. Epp is a leader of the local “Save our Rox” group, which for the last three years has been pushing back against plans to develop a…

An annual cryptocurrency and blockchain convention that will kick off its 2024 event Feb. 23, is suing the Denver trade show company that managed its 2023 convention. ETHDenver, which featured Gov. Jared Polis in 2022, was a success in 2023, bringing 48,000 people from 115 countries to the National Western Complex, its organizers say. But behind the scenes, a dispute arose that is still playing out in court one year later. Coast to Coast Trade Show Services, a Denver company, sued ETHDenver in December, accusing it of not…

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…

A local shareholder will examine the internal records of a single-branch bank in Lakewood to determine whether its chairman squandered the bank’s profits on a fleet of aircraft that he used to travel to Denver Nuggets games, where he became known as the “Red Pant Man.” In an oral ruling Feb. 6 that took more than an hour to read, Delaware Chancery Court Judge Bonnie David decided that Rob Salazar can inspect certain records of Solera Bank. “I am convinced that the (bank) board’s decision not to pay a dividend in 2020,…

Ana Fanakra sat in her bakery on the 16th Street Mall on what turned out to be its last day in business, Feb. 3, waiting for customers. But not many came, and she decided to close up early. “We had really low sales that day,” she said. “We hadn’t even made $100 yet, which was a very accurate picture of what the last couple of months looked like for us.” The next day, she decided to call it quits, closing both the original location of Ana’s Norwegian Bakeri, which opened in Centennial in June 2021, and the downtown bakery,…

A local family is currently working on opening an indoor golf facility that is expected to soft open this spring, offering residents the chance to hit the links indoors. TeeShots, nestled along the southwest side of downtown Loveland, will function as an indoor golf entertainment and training center, offering four golf simulation bays as well as a full service bar. Mike Bitner, co-owner with his wife Eileen Bitner and son Jeremy Bitner, said they are combining golfing and drinking. “My favorite line is I retired a year…

NEW YORK — Capital One Financial is buying Discover Financial Services for $35 billion, in a deal that would bring together two of the nation’s biggest lenders and credit card issuers. Discover Financial shareholders will receive Capital One shares valued at nearly $140, according to a news release issued by the companies Monday. Discover shares closed Friday trading at $110.49. Virginia-based Capital One was the 12th largest U.S. bank as of the third quarter, with $471.4 billion in total assets and $346 billion in…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a sun a day. The record-breaking quasar shines 500 trillion times brighter than our sun. The black hole powering this distant quasar is more than 17 billion times more immense than our sun, an Australian-led team reported Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy. While the quasar resembles a mere dot in images, scientists envision a…

Annie Valentina Castanon knows the endless scroll of social media well — one short video on an app like Instagram or TikTok turns into another, she said, and soon a minute turns into hours. The quick rush from flashy entertainment gives way to anxiety as she worries about losing time that should have been spent on her Advanced Placement classes. And then depression sets in over the sense that she’s setting her future self up for failure. The senior at DSST: Montview High School in Denver has joined a push at the Colorado…