Author: By MARK SAMUELSON Special to The Denver Gazette
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With raised gambling limits, Colorado casinos mark record revenues
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As the pandemic wanes, gamblers venturing up to Colorado’s three mountain casino towns are wagering record sums at the machines and tables, totaling just short of $1 billion last year, according to a report released this week by the Colorado Department of Revenue. Earlier this month, the Colorado Limited Gaming Control Commission approved distribution of…
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New access to Denver International Airport coming — the Aerotropolis Parkway
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Three decades after the runways were graded across the empty plains northeast of downtown, developers and investors are taking a new look at Denver International Airport and they’ve set off an explosion of growth in the countryside nearby. The airport’s 54-square-mile expanse, including huge tracts remaining for future runways, lies in Denver. But the lion’s…
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Housing continues to slow, but Denver is still a seller’s market
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National media are beginning to talk about a transition from a seller’s market to a buyer’s market, as home prices dip with rising mortgage rates. But don’t expect that shift to happen anytime soon in Denver. The median price of a single-family home in Denver stood at $723,750 in July, down from $750,000 a month…
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Colorado pot sales are trending well below their mid-pandemic high
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Coloradans and visitors to the state are spending nowhere near as much on marijuana products as they did at the height of the pandemic when many people were confined to home and cut off from other entertainment. That’s a conclusion suggested by the latest round of cannabis sales reports released Tuesday by the Colorado Department…
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Denver honors Cathy Reynolds, city’s first councilwoman
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After searching for a fitting way to memorialize Denver’s first woman to be elected to a City Council seat, the council on Wednesday formally renamed its chambers in the City and County Building to honor Cathy Reynolds, who died in 2020. “She was really a star,” said former council member Stephanie Foote, who served with…
