Apartments in Cherry Creek and Downtown come with hefty lease rates, but on the whole Denver represents a better bargain for renters than suburbs like Parker, Castle Rock, Thornton, Littleton, Broomfield and even Brighton, according to a new report.

Apartment List pegs the median one-bedroom apartment rent in Denver at $1,050 and the median two-bedroom rent at $1,320 in its May 2018 Denver Rent Report.

“Although Denver-proper has a good number of expensive luxury units in the urban core, the less desirable sections of the city with a greater share of older units keep the median rent down,” said Chris Salviati, a housing economist with the San Francisco-based apartment search site.

Wheat Ridge, another market with older apartments, shows a similar pattern. The median one-bedroom rent there is $1,020 a month and the median two-bedroom is at $1,290.

A surge in new apartment supply in Denver is also keeping downward pressure on rents, Salviati said. Denver rents are up 0.4 percent mont..

COLORADO SPRINGS — A recent report says apartment rents in the Colorado Springs area rose again in the first quarter of this year.

The Gazette reports a study by the Colorado Division of Housing and the Apartment Association of Southern Colorado says renters spent an average of $1,130.25 a month during the January-March period, up $13.57 from the fourth quarter and a nearly $70 spike from the first quarter of 2017.

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The 9th Door has closed in LoDo. That’s no pun. Just a fact.

The 13-year-old Spanish-tinged tapas restaurant, located next door to fellow neighborhood long-timer Vesta, served its last meal Saturday night.

Its space at 1808 Blake Street has already been absorbed by the Sheamus Feeley Hospitality Group, according to a news release from that company. It’s unclear what Feeley and company plan to do with the space, but the group boasts a roster of experienced restaurant operators who have helped lead well-known establishments like Hillstone in Cherry Creek and the White House Tavern in Aspen.

“We have such immense respect for the concepts that have been built here in LoDo, long before the neighborhood was what it is now,” Sheamus Feeley, president of founder of the eponymous company, said in a news release, crediting the 9th Door and Vesta for their longevity. “We’re excited to bring something to Denver that will add to the already vibrant conversation happening here.”

Staff at the now..

Matthew Jonas, The Daily CameraFrom left, Angie Garcia and Marissa Garcia stand on the front steps of their family’s home on the 2100 block of Goss Circle in Boulder on Monday.A Mexican-American family seeking to sell their century-old Boulder home for redevelopment says the city’s opposition to their plan is racist and unfounded.

The 1,000-square-foot home at 2122 Goss Circle is on a is 10,000-square-foot lot in a central Boulder neighborhood formerly known as the “Little Rectangle” — a place once populated by black and Hispanic people, who were often barred from owning homes elsewhere in Boulder.

The property was purchased in 1949 by Frank and Mary Chavez, who renovated the circa 1890 home and added a two-car garage. The house is in poor condition and has been uninhabited since 2016, when Mary Chavez, now 95, moved to assisted living.

Chavez’s family has a buyer ready to close on the property, which is expected to fetch up to $800,000. The buyer intends to demolish the house and g..

Boston-based ezCater, one of the largest tech companies in the business-catering niche, has tapped Denver to be its second home.

The company, which developed an online ordering system to connect businesses to 60,000 caterers nationwide, has already begun the process of moving into a 15,000-square-foot office in downtown Denver to ramp up a customer service operation. It’s already hired 22 people and expects to be at 100 employees locally by the end of the year at the 999 18th Street location.

“Denver is such a cool city with such a great lifestyle” said cofounder and CEO Stefania Mallett, adding that it picked Denver after polling existing employees and discovering the area’s available talent. “In Denver, we’ve found it easy to hire.”

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