When in November the Residences at the Ritz-Carlton fell into receivership, it came as a blow where it hurts to high-end Colorado real estate and to all that represents goodness, purity and unthinkable levels of luxury. After all, we're talking about the Ritz, as in: "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz...
Anybody who has been around the Front Range awhile will recall the days when the landscape from U.S. 36 from Denver to Boulder was where the fruited plain met the purple mountains majesty.It was "one of the most beautiful interurban…
The most closely watched but least useful statistic on the state of the economy is the unemployment rate. Early each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics issues a report, and the headline usually focuses on the change in the unemployment…
Windsor, Colo., has been torn by two terrible storms in the past couple of years, one real, one a metaphor. The metaphorical one might have hurt worse, economically at least.
I realize the Internet is a big place, and once something is posted there it stays forever, and that there have been a few instances of two- or three-year old news stories mysteriously reappearing as "new" news, to much consternation.…
Wayne Leiser, CEO of Colorado Asphalt Services, says that in June 2008 he met with his management team - just three people, including himself - and they came up with an aggressive plan. They met with the heads of departments and gave them two options - they could take a 10 percent pay cut across th...
One of the tricky parts of a recession is that no two downturns are quite the same. The mid-1980s recession was triggered by a nasty slump that already had ended in most of the country. But in those days Colorado…
Former HUD chief Henry Cisneros recently visited Boulder to tout the Peloton, a mixed-use development his company is helping to finance - a $150 million project that increased sales recently by slashing prices. Cisneros, who served as secretary of the…
The nascent 3,120-acre Sterling Ranch is a prospective infill development on the largest contiguous parcel of land in northwestern Douglas County. The land’s treeless panorama offers views of open space to the south and east, and to the west views…
Two years after a tornado killed two people and destroyed or damaged more than 160 homes, the town of Holly, Colo., angles for revival
