The City and County of Denver held an open house yesterday afternoon that attracted more than 100 people to hear the CliffNotes version of the new Green Building Ordinance. My sense is that most people in the audience were from the A/E/C community, to learn how the New Rules will impact design and construction of …
The dockless scooters from five different companies have made themselves at home in Denver. Wwhere do we go from here? They are all over my neighborhood, and in other areas near Denver’s urban core (but honestly, everywhere). I am assuming a lot of people like them, and they do offer a way to get around …
Do you have a sense that the New York Times has a big crush on our current governor, John Hickenlooper? And that there is some sort of fascination with Colorado? I find Colorado fascinating, too, and generous, and caring, and mainly progressive, but it is not nirvana. Check out the link below, and let me …
One of my favorite reads is The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) website and newsletter, which was founded by Charles Birnbaum in 2003. Before creating TCLF, Birnbaum for more than a decade was coordinator of the National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative, after many years in private practice in New York City. As president and CEO …
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This past weekend featured two openings that elicited very different emotions. On Friday night, Goodwin Fine Art opened “Coalesce,” a group exhibition of the gallery’s stable of artists. The show is strong, but there’s just one dark cloud: This is the last show for Goodwin Fine Art. Tina Goodwin, who opened the gallery in 2011 …
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Even if you whittle down magazine subscriptions every once in a while, at times it just seems overwhelming. But when I found some magazines that had been buried under a pile of other magazines, I learned more about a place that mixes old and new – and it is right in Aurora. I had already …
Last week, the Colorado Business Committee for the Arts revealed its new economic activity study pertaining to data gathered in 2017 on the impact the arts have in our state. The major “wow” was the economic activity in the arts and cultural sectors: $1.9 billion. That’s an 8% increase over the data collected in 2015. …
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Now that the mid-term election is over, though some tight-squeeze ballot counts may call for a recount (or supreme patience), we can get back to other news. Over the past few days, there has been a lot of reporting about Amazon splitting its new second headquarters in two. First, it was going to be 20 …
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In the spirit of bolstering my mood, let’s turn today to why preservation of key buildings in Denver (and everywhere) is so important to our lives. Beauty, history, legacy...and more. In case Number One, Denver’s Landmark Preservation Commission today addressed the Comprehensive Sign Plan that the Denver Art Museum has proposed for the massive project …
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Last November, right around Thanksgiving, a coffee shop in the 2800 block of Larimer Street became the center of attention in Denver. It was all over the news, and was featured in publications based far away from here. You remember the sign: Happily gentrifying the neighborhood since 2014. I sort of gasped when I saw …
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