Consider, for a moment, two neighborhoods in Denver: Platt Park and Westwood. Both are in the southern half of the city, separated by a two-mile drive along Mississippi Avenue over the railroad tracks. Both are home to lots of young families. And both, of course, are 16 months into weathering the coronavirus pandemic. But, according […]
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Opinion: As Denver’s libraries reopen, the need for federal help becomes more critical
The Denver Public Library last month reopened nine locations to the public nearly a year after closing its doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and as of April 13 has reopened most of its remaining branch libraries. As one of the last public spaces where anybody from any background can feel welcome without buying anything, […]
Posted inColoradans, COVID, Health
On Edge: A coronavirus survivor in Denver finds her footing amid her fears
Until this year, Elizabeth Torres would not have called herself a particularly anxious person. Stressed, sure. Who wasn’t? Everyone has ups and downs. Torres was working a couple part-time jobs, taking care of her elderly grandparents, raising three kids on her own. Her son, the middle child, has been diagnosed with autism and he likes […]
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On Edge: First, COVID took this Colorado man’s friends, then it took his health
Eddie Kemm found the pool table early in the pandemic. It was the second one he had scouted after the governor’s order shut down the bars — including Kemm’s favorite pool hall — in late March. When the halls went dark, so, too, did a significant part of the social life of an 81-year-old man […]
Posted inBusiness, Coloradans, Culture, Growth, Outdoors
The indoor climbing industry is booming on a foundation bolted to Colorado’s Front Range
Colorado has for three decades nurtured the slow-and-steady growth of indoor climbing gyms. But now, as the business built by bored climbers is roiling with consolidation, private equity investment, mergers, acquisitions and unprecedented growth, the Front Range is emerging as a battleground for the maturing industry. The gyms also are spurring technological and consumer innovation […]
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Watch: A lifelong Westwood resident on what the changing neighborhood means to her
Will Halbert, of the University of Colorado News Corps, took his video camera into the Westwood neighborhood to tell the story of Eve Ulloa, who has special ties to the community — and plans to stay in the house she inherited from her parents until she passes it on to her own daughter.
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Denver’s Westwood warily watches redevelopment happen. Can it stay true to its roots when gentrification looms?
Mayra Martinez can roll out of bed in an apartment that’s among the newest construction in Denver’s Westwood neighborhood and slip behind her desk at the law firm across the street in a matter of minutes. She pays a little over $1,000 a month for the one-bedroom space, utilities included. That’s a bargain in the […]