X Corp., the social media company formerly known as Twitter, has been ordered to pay more than $8 million to its former landlord in Boulder after a judge determined it broke its lease. “Twitter was not entitled to a credit for rent due on Dec. 1, 2022, and its nonpayment…
By PAUL WISEMAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has audaciously claimed virtually unlimited power to bypass Congress and impose sweeping taxes on foreign products. Now a federal court has thrown a roadblock in his path. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of International…
By PAUL WISEMAN, AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy shrank at a 0.2% annual pace from January through March, the first drop in three years, as President Donald Trump’s trade wars disrupted business, the government said Thursday in a slight upgrade of its initial estimate. First-quarter growth…
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Shawn Pope says he was almost too close to his mother, Shirlyne Johnson. He called every day, sometimes multiple times a day. Shirlyne Johnson. (Photo courtesy of Latrisse Johnson) Occasionally, she grew tired of talking to him so often, Pope said, “but she always overlooked it ’cause I’m her son.”…
The COVID-19 pandemic turned Downtown Denver from the place to be to a place to flee, derailing two decades of momentum overnight. Five years later, downtown’s recovery continues to lag behind most other cities, and the delay is costing Denver and the region. “We can wait 10 or 15 years…
In the battle for Downtown Denver’s future, victory or defeat could hinge on convincing people it is safe to visit, work and live in the area, and key to that will be restoring the vibrancy of 16th Street (“mall” was recently dropped from its name), which is wrapping up a…
In a post-pandemic world, is it still important or necessary for major metro areas to have a vibrant downtown at their core? If restaurants, retail outlets and housing are growing in Cherry Creek and other neighborhoods, does it matter if they’re on the wane or not as plentiful in downtown…
The Denver Post’s business team has spent the past three months talking to city officials — present and past — Chamber and tourism executives, business owners, CEOs, analysts, bankers and economists, all to get a big-picture perspective on Denver’s Downtown. Reporter Aldo Svaldi did an in-depth analysis on downtown’s office…
Downtown’s most distressed office buildings are also some of the region’s largest. Built during an oil and gas boom in the 1970s and 1980s, most are located in the Upper Downtown and Skyline Park areas, which had multiple blocks scraped to make room for taller buildings. READ THE FULL PROJECT:…