Denver Biz Buzz from DenverPost.com
- Ouray now sole owner of its famed ice park May 15, 2012The City of Ouray is now the sole owner of the Ouray Ice Park, one of the West’s most popular ice climbing venues. After several years of negotiations between the city and the U.S. Forest Service, the city now owns 24 acres of the park, thanks in part to a $193,000 grant from Great Outdoors [...]
- Wind power ten times cleaner than coal, Colorado NREL researchers say May 14, 2012A new National Renewable Energy Laboratory review of 397 study finds wind and solar power emits as much as 90 percent less in greenhouse gases than burning coal to make electricity
- Colorado residents upwardly mobile Pew study reports May 10, 2012The Pew Center for the States released a study today looking at income mobility across the country, and it shows many Colorado residents were able to climb the economic ladder, even if the state's economy has generated only average gains in income.
- Senate passes film incentive legislation, doubling rebates for movies made in Colorado May 9, 2012The Colorado Senate today passed the Film Production Activities in Colorado Act, a bipartisan effort that doubles rebates for movie production costs in Colorado. The act – House Bill 1286, sponsored by Sen. Linda Newell (D-Littleton) and Sen. Jean White (R-Hayden) – makes Colorado’s film incentive program competitive with other states. In recent years Colorado [...]
- Denver’s Tattered Cover Bookstores brand to come to DIA May 9, 2012Denver’s renowned Tattered Cover Bookstores brand will appear in early 2014 at Denver International Airport under an exclusive license agreement with existing airport bookseller, Hudson News. The agreement calls for construction of four Tattered Cover Bookstores, four Hudson Newsstands and one combination Hudson Newstand/Tattered Cover Bookstore in DIA’s main terminal and three concourses. “The Tattered [...]
- Study: Fat cats and flabby dogs make Colorado home May 9, 2012The state that prides itself for having some of the fittest humans in the nation finds itself with the least fit of felines and canines they call pets, according to a national report on pet health by Banfield Pet Hospital.
- Steamboat condo auction nets $9.2 million May 8, 2012A Beverly Hills real estate firm sold 24 Steamboat Springs condos at a Denver auction on Sunday, harvesting $9.2 million. The company, Kennedy Wilson, originally planned to auction 39 condos. More than 75 bidders attended the auction and another 25 online bidders vied for the high-end condos at Steamboat’s Trailhead Lodge. Sixteen of the units [...]
- Colorado renewable energy collaboration lands $37 million in funds May 8, 2012The Colorado Renewable Energy Collaboratory– a partnership between industry and the state’s top research institutions – has generated $37 million in federal and private research funds since 2007, according to a report to the legislature.
- Denver storage facility under construction May 8, 2012Focus Property Group has broken ground on Greenbox Self Storage. The 65,000-square-foot facility at 3200 Brighton Blvd. will house 690 storage units with 45,000 net rentable square feet. Unit sizes will range from a 5-foot by 5-foot cubby to a 10-foot by 25-foot drive up unit.
- Arrow Electronics tops Colorado’s biggest companies on Fortune 500 list May 7, 2012Arrow Electronics tops the list of Colorado corporations on the Fortune 500 list released today, with 2011 revenues of $21.4 billion. The global supplier of electronic components and services was 133 on the national list. Arrow late last year moved its headquarters from Melville, N.Y., to the Inverness business park in Arapahoe County, where it [...]