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12 years in City Hall: Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s triumphs and failures

Dec 19, 2022

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Alex Edwards

Outgoing Mayor of Denver, Michael Hancock, sits down with Denver Gazette for exclusive interviewTom HellauerTomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g Denver Mayor Michael Hancock knows what he’ll regret most from his three terms as the most powerful elected leader in Denver: Thanksgiving, 2020, when Hancock was caught traveling in the thick of a raging pandemic despite having urged the public to…
$5.7B in downtown Denver investments since 2014, says partnership

Jul 2, 2019

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Colorado Politics

Anyone with eyes in their head already knows that downtown Denver has undergone a tremendous building boom over the last five years. But now you can also see it in a map compiled by the Downtown Denver Partnership. The map details how and where some $5.7 billion worth of investments has occurred in the city’s…
Lawmakers introduce bipartisan compromise bill to tackle construction defects issues

Mar 18, 2017

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Ernest Luning

A bipartisan group of legislators introduced a compromise bill late Friday aimed at encouraging developers to build condominium projects while preserving the right of homeowners to have their day in court. The legislation arrives at the end of a week that saw a Democratic-sponsored bill and a Republican-sponsored bill covering much of the same territory both…
Backers outraged after Duran sends GOP-sponsored construction bill to kill committee

Mar 15, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Supporters of a Republican-sponsored bill to require condominium owners and builders to submit claims alleging construction problems to arbitration howled with outrage Wednesday after Democratic House Speaker Crisanta Duran assigned the legislation to the House “kill committee.” Meanwhile, compromise legislation authored by a bipartisan team of House lawmakers could be waiting in the wings, but…
Colorado Senate passes GOP bill aimed at curbing construction-defects litigation

Mar 8, 2017

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Ernest Luning

The Colorado Senate gave bipartisan approval Tuesday to a Republican-sponsored bill to require owners and builders of condominiums to submit disputes over construction problems to arbitration or mediation before filing class-action lawsuits. Five Democrats joined every Republican senator voting in favor of Senate Bill 156 on third reading, sending the bill on a 23-12 vote…
Senate committee OKs condo construction bill to require arbitration

Feb 28, 2017

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Ernest Luning

A Republican-sponsored bill to require condominium owners and builders to submit disputes over construction problems to arbitration or mediation passed its first hurdle Monday, winning bipartisan approval in a Senate committee. But opponents call the legislation’s central component a nonstarter and predict the bill will meet its demise in the Democratic-controlled House, despite plenty of…
Sewald Hanfling adds Brittany Morris Saunders as local affairs chief

Feb 2, 2017

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Ernest Luning

UPDATED with comments from Mayor Michael Hancock, Tami Door and R.D. Sewald. Brittany Morris Saunders, the senior vice president for economic development and public affairs with the Downtown Denver Partnership, is joining Sewald Hanfling Public Affairs, a Denver-based lobbying, business development and communications firm, The Colorado Statesman has learned. Saunders, a former economic development director for…
Private security guards begin patrols in downtown Denver

Aug 18, 2016

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Associated Press

Denver has stepped up public safety efforts by adding security guards to patrol the city’s downtown. The Denver Post reports that the guards, who are employed by Allied Universal Security, will monitor Denver’s 16th Street Mall 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They will be unarmed, but equipped with pepper spray and handcuffs to…