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Developers have doubts about Denver’s plan to boost affordable housing
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As housing prices soar in the Denver area, a City Council committee is expected to discuss a proposal that supporters say would build and maintain more affordable units. The proposed program would ensure that developers create affordable units along with market rate condos and apartments. Builders and Realtors, however, have doubts whether those plans will help or…
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Denver’s green roof ordinance morphs into a broader mandate
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Denver has one of its first commercial rooftop green spaces despite the city morphing the citizen-led Green Roofs Initiative into a less ambitious energy conservation and heat island reduction plan. McGregor Square, a 659,000-square-foot development owned by the Colorado Rockies that is next to Coors Field, took the green roof ordinance to heart when its design process began in…
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National Western Stock Show parade canceled
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With weather forecasts calling for snow and “dangerously low temperatures,” National Western Stock Show officials canceled the downtown parade and an event planned at McGregor Square on Thursday. “We will not risk animal safety with slick streets,” President and CEO Paul Andrews said Tuesday. “Being right isn’t always popular; and being popular isn’t always right. We…
